Author Box

[jamaicajay]

How do I insert a picture and google+ badge in the author box on posts? Along with post count.

[ezines]

I'd like to know the same things.

Are the answers so obvious no one will respond?

 

[John]

The author's photo is, or should be, generated from his/her Gravatar account: http://en.gravatar.com/

The other stuff is more complicated. For example, do a Google search of customize genesis author box and look through the results.

And if you're up to some coding, Bill Erickson posted a code snippet that you can use to customize the author box.

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
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[John]

The StudioPress author box code snippets may be helpful too: http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/author-box/

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
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[Rocky Top]

I did perform the search for customize genesis author box and have read through the results.  Not having much code experience, where exactly is the code from these tutorials supposed to go?  Just anywhere in the functions.php file or is there specific places?

[John]

Best practice is to add any new code to the bottom of functions.php. You could even add a comment line below the standard stuff like this example, and add your code below that line:

/* Custom Functions below this line
------------------------------------------------------------ */

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A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉

[Rocky Top]

Thanks!  I will give it a go.

[Rocky Top]

Hey John,  before I break my site by fooling with code let me tell you what I am wanting to do.  I have a custom author plugin that I like and use on all blog posts.  It appears at the bottom of every post like you see here http://www.anniemaloney.com/cabin-foreclosures-in-gatlinburg-tn/  I want to take that author box and make it display at the top of this page http://www.anniemaloney.com/author/admin  how would I do that?

[John]

Rocky Top,

Breaking your site is how you learn, as long as you can quickly un-break it! 🙂

Seriously though, I don't know how your custom author plugin will affect this, but if you add this code snippet to the bottom of your functions.php file it should (might) do the trick:

/** Display author box on archive pages */
add_filter( 'get_the_author_genesis_author_box_archive', '__return_true' );

I just tried it on a site I'm currently developing and it added an author box at the top of the author archive page. Let me know if it works for you.

John

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉

[Rocky Top]

Got mine all figured out.  Just forgot to report back here.  There is a plugin called HTML in author bio.  It allows you to write in html in the bio box on the user profile.  End result looks like this. http://www.anniemaloney.com/author/admin

[Rocky Top]

What I would like to do with that author box is change that <H> tag for the title.  Little smaller  darker, and different text.  Where is that code at?

[John]

You don't have to necessarily change the h1 tag - you can just add this to your style.css, and adjust as wanted:

.author-box h1 {
color: #555;
font-family: Georgia;
font-size: 24px;
}

But if you did want to change the h1 tag to something else you'll most likely find that in the plugin files somewhere.

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉

[Rocky Top]

I found the part of the stylesheet to change the font.  It was under headlines.  That author box is part of the theme.  Where would I find that text so I can change it?  The "About Annie Maloney" I'm sure the name comes from the profile but the "About" part has to be getting populated from somewhere.

[John]

Did you try any of these? http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/author-box/

Specifically the code to modify the Author Box title?

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉

[Rocky Top]

Wow.  Where exactly does that code need to be placed.  Functions.php?

[Rocky Top]

Nevermind, duh

[John]

🙂

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John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉

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