How to add avatar [image of author] in wordpress blogs ?
Are you a wordpress blogger ? What is an avatar ?
Avatar is an image of blogger which is posted in blog while you create a new article or comment below an article or using “About author” plugin in WordPress blogs. By default it will be a outlined picture of unknown person or human being.
How long you blog with unknown Avatar image in posts, comments, etc. This tutorial helps you to add your own photo with wordpress blog. Before adding authors’s image understand about “WP About Author” Plugin. This tutorial make you use of a public account we can use author’s avatar/image in any number of blogs with email as identity.
You may see this script in the plugin when open in editor.
<?php echo get_avatar( $author_email, $size, $default, $alt ); ?>
or
get_avatar( $author_email, $size);
The Parameters in get_avatar are author_email and size.
This line fetches author’s image from another site called Gravatar.
Gravatar
Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.
How to create our own Avatar for WordPress blogs.
Step 1: Goto Gravatar.com
Step 2: Click over “Get your Gravatar Today”.
Step 3: Signup using email address.
Step 4: Activate account by clicking the link send to your email.
Step 5: Then “Add a new Image”, and crop as you want in square shape.
Step 6: Now the Avatar is ready in Gravatar.
Step 7: You can add any number of emails to account and any number of images associated with it.
Step 8: WordPress blog fetches the image by matching the email used to login and shown it in the place of Author description.
Step 9: Wait for 5-10minutes to appear your image in wordpress blog Author image part.
You can test the gravatar image by clickng “check this gravatar”. It shows many options and a Hash key with image url to use it again. Author can also deney the permission to show his image in blogs. Now you may understood how to add image of author in worpress blogs.
Am Anuraj from Palghat, Kerala, India. Owner of TechBeeps.com, completed my Engineering in Computer Science from Anna university. Blogging is passion for me; it brings me close to new comings in the technology.
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How to add avatar [image of author] in wordpress blogs ?
Avatar is an image of blogger which is posted in blog while you create a new article or comment below an article or using “About author” plugin in WordPress blogs. By default it will be a outlined picture of unknown person or human being.
How long you blog with unknown Avatar image in posts, comments, etc. This tutorial helps you to add your own photo with wordpress blog. Before adding authors’s image understand about “WP About Author” Plugin. This tutorial make you use of a public account we can use author’s avatar/image in any number of blogs with email as identity.
You may see this script in the plugin when open in editor.<?php echo get_avatar( $author_email, $size, $default, $alt ); ?>orget_avatar( $author_email, $size);The Parameters in get_avatar are author_email and size.
This line fetches author’s image from another site called Gravatar.
Gravatar
Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.
How to create our own Avatar for WordPress blogs.
Step 1: Goto Gravatar.com
Step 2: Click over “Get your Gravatar Today”.
Step 3: Signup using email address.
Step 4: Activate account by clicking the link send to your email.
Step 5: Then “Add a new Image”, and crop as you want in square shape.
Step 6: Now the Avatar is ready in Gravatar.
Step 7: You can add any number of emails to account and any number of images associated with it.
Step 8: WordPress blog fetches the image by matching the email used to login and shown it in the place of Author description.
Step 9: Wait for 5-10minutes to appear your image in wordpress blog Author image part.
You can test the gravatar image by clickng “check this gravatar”. It shows many options and a Hash key with image url to use it again. Author can also deney the permission to show his image in blogs. Now you may understood how to add image of author in worpress blogs.
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Am Anuraj from Palghat, Kerala, India. Owner of TechBeeps.com, completed my Engineering in Computer Science from Anna university. Blogging is passion for me; it brings me close to new comings in the technology.
Website - Twitter - Facebook - More Posts
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