I have an author box at the bottom of each of my posts, but it's not a plugin. Elle from Couple Money showed me how to add some code right into my Thesis theme to make it work. Here's a link that explains how to do it:
Hey, Dana. Yakezie's author box is also not a plugin, but an extension of Wordpress's built in functionality. If you do not have Thesis (or a thesis based theme, Yakezie is not based on Thesis) than you might need to dig a little bit into the code of your theme to add a box. To display, the different bits of information stored for the author of a post, use the "get_the_author_meta()" function, completely discussed here:
If you have no interest in editing your Wordpress theme, check out the "Author Box Reloaded" plugin (never used it, but I think it will do what you want) or "Cool Author Box" (also never used it either; it appears that the first choice is more widely adopted). Of course, I am not sure how much control either of these plugins with give you as far as color and style go, so they may not match your theme. If you really want something that matches your site, and you cannot or do not want to edit your theme code, you may want to consider hiring someone to take care of this for you. It would probably take about 1 hour to do this (perhaps up to 2, depending on how much back and forth you have with this person) for an experienced Wordpress Developer.
Hope this helps!
P.S. If you would like, I can send you or post here the PHP code that we use for Yakezie's author box if you would like something for reference. It will require some CSS work as well, which I can post with it.
Yakezie Webmaster.
If it's broke I will try to fix it. If you need help, let me know and I will see what I can do.
I have an author box at the bottom of each of my posts, but it's not a plugin. Elle from Couple Money showed me how to add some code right into my Thesis theme to make it work. Here's a link that explains how to do it:
Hey, Dana. Yakezie's author box is also not a plugin, but an extension of Wordpress's built in functionality. If you do not have Thesis (or a thesis based theme, Yakezie is not based on Thesis) than you might need to dig a little bit into the code of your theme to add a box. To display, the different bits of information stored for the author of a post, use the "get_the_author_meta()" function, completely discussed here:
If you have no interest in editing your Wordpress theme, check out the "Author Box Reloaded" plugin (never used it, but I think it will do what you want) or "Cool Author Box" (also never used it either; it appears that the first choice is more widely adopted). Of course, I am not sure how much control either of these plugins with give you as far as color and style go, so they may not match your theme. If you really want something that matches your site, and you cannot or do not want to edit your theme code, you may want to consider hiring someone to take care of this for you. It would probably take about 1 hour to do this (perhaps up to 2, depending on how much back and forth you have with this person) for an experienced Wordpress Developer.
Hope this helps!
P.S. If you would like, I can send you or post here the PHP code that we use for Yakezie's author box if you would like something for reference. It will require some CSS work as well, which I can post with it.
Thanks so much for the info Chris. I am on the Thesis theme and used the code that Mike recommended above. Worked like a charm!
Here's how I did mine by adding the below code to the "Single Post" PHP file; I found some tutorials after searching and adapted the code to my theme. I added a condition so the box doesn't show if the author is "Guest":
<!– Author byline –>
<?php if (get_the_author_meta('user_login') != "Guest") { ?>
<div id="authorarea">
<?php if (function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '100' );
}?>
If I am not mistaken, the author box that you are refering to is a bit different that the subject of this post. What Dana was originally discussing was getting an author box on a personal blog like the author box that appears for the POSTS on yakezie.com, not here in the forums. The box that you are refering to is actually called a "Forum Signature" and that can be added by clicking on your username (uhnw, which will take you to your Forum Profile page) and then click the link that says "Edit Profile Record" at the bottom of that page. Once in the editor, there is a tab (the tab on the far right) that says "Setup your Signature" which will give you what you are looking for. Hope that helps,
Chris
Yakezie Webmaster.
If it's broke I will try to fix it. If you need help, let me know and I will see what I can do.
If I am not mistaken, the author box that you are refering to is a bit different that the subject of this post. What Dana was originally discussing was getting an author box on a personal blog like the author box that appears for the POSTS on yakezie.com, not here in the forums. The box that you are refering to is actually called a "Forum Signature" and that can be added by clicking on your username (uhnw, which will take you to your Forum Profile page) and then click the link that says "Edit Profile Record" at the bottom of that page. Once in the editor, there is a tab (the tab on the far right) that says "Setup your Signature" which will give you what you are looking for. Hope that helps,
Chris
Hi Chris!
I tried doing what you said, but I can't seem to find the "Edit Profile Record" link on my profile page. The page I am taken to when clicking on my name is: http://yakezie.com/wordpress/w…..rofile.php Am I on the right page?
Sorry, to be a bit more clear, click on your username in the forums. So, on your previous post, where it says your name on the left, click that and you should be taken to the correct spot.
Yakezie Webmaster.
If it's broke I will try to fix it. If you need help, let me know and I will see what I can do.
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