A published article without an author bio and picture looks incomplete. In fact, these things matter in Google AdSense approval as well.
Having an author bio on your website’s blog with author picture makes it look genuine. Readers feel more connected with the articles if they know who wrote them, and what they are in person.
For a website built on WordPress (as in this blogging course), it’s really simple and 5-minute task to add your author bio and author pictures using Gravatar.
In this article, I will guide you to add an author bio in WordPress without any extra plugin. As using extra plugins makes your website heavy; it’s better to do it with the inbuilt feature of WordPress.
In the end; it will look something like this:
You can change the font style, color, or weight of text, from the theme option (WPOcean is used in the above example).
Let’s get started.
How to Add Author Bio in WordPress?
First, we will learn to add an author bio in your website’s article, which can be done from the “Users” option of the WordPress dashboard. Follow these steps:
- Click on “Users” in the WordPress menu
2. Click on the “Edit” option below the user’s name
3. A panel with complete information of that user will open up. Scroll down to the area of “Biographical Info”. Write down the Autor bio there.
4. Below “Biographical Info” you get the option of “Profile Picture”.
However, it’s not possible to upload pictures of the authors, from this option in the WordPress. To add a profile picture, you need to create your Gravatar account and upload the author’s picture in there.
After writing down biographical info, Save the setting.
Let’s now learn to create your Gravatar account. But before that, we will know about Gravatar and understand how it works.
What is Gravatar?
Gravatar is short of Globally Recognized Avatar.
Uploading profile pictures multiple times would be time and effort-consuming. Therefore, Gravatar was developed that allows you to upload your picture once, and it appears on various gravatar-enabled platforms.
Created by Tom Preston Werner, Gravatar is used to create profiles for the web. Gravatar is usually used by bloggers as well brands to identify their digital identity.
Gravatar is a product of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Automattic has also developed Jetpack, Akismet and other popular tools. And, to use these products, you need to create an account in WordPress.com
Your website is built on WordPress.org, which is different from WordPress.com. Let’s learn to create a WordPress.com account and use Gravatar
How to Create a Gravatar account?
Creating a Gravatar account is a piece of cake. Follow the steps below to create a your Gravatar account:
Step 1: Visit the official site of Gravatar. This is what you will get(shown below). Click on ‘Create your Gravatar’.
Step 2: You need to enter your email address (the one you used in your WordPress website) and choose a username along with a password. Then click on “Create Your Account”. This will sign you up on WordPress.com
Step 3: After filling in the details, you will get a confirmation mail to verify your email address. Just like the picture below.
Step 4: As the next step, you need to verify your email address by clicking on activating your account.
Great! Your Account on WordPress in created and now you can log in to Gravatar using this.
Step 5: Go to Gravatar’s website and log in with the WordPress.com username and password that you have just created.
Upload the picture from your device. Follow the steps shown below
Finally, it’s done!
Your profile picture which you just uploaded will appear on the WordPress website.
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At the End
Overall, setting up Gravatar is easy! Let me show you how it appears after the Gravatar account is all set. We will check in the users’ section of WordPress again, and it will look something like this.
The same will show up in the front-end as already shown in the introduction section.
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Helped me a lot, just what I was searching for : D.
well explained
thanks Anjali