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valis

Oct 13, 2009 06:21 PM

[SOLVED] Author bio & photo in sidebar

Hi, I'm completely new to WordPress/Atahualpa. I'm still configuring the site and PHP gets me cross-eyed.

My question:
How do I put a photo and short bio in the right sidebar up at the top?

I'm on Atahualpa 3.4.4 and WP 2.8.4, the host is remote.

Thanks

juggledad

Oct 14, 2009 05:48 AM

If you mean something like what we have here (http://callofthemuse.com),
1) upload a photo via the media tools,
2) insert a TEXT widget in the sidebar - we set the title as "I first heard the 'Call'..."
3) in the text portion use something like this

HTML Code:

<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-37" title="100_5039" src="http://callofthemuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/100_5039-254x300.jpg" alt="100_5039" width="127" height="150" />Once upon a time, I belonged to a book club...at work...but work got in the way of our meetings. A co-worker had to go out of town one week and she challenged me to take notes. "Be creative." she siad. She created a monster.</p>

<p>My husband submitted it to the local paper and twelve years later, I've written over a hunderd articles. These articles are now being posted to this blog...with my new ones of course.</p>

you will need to change the address to point at your image and change the text for your needs

valis

Oct 15, 2009 05:30 PM

Thanks, jd, this worked fine. Can you clarify what "wp-image-37" does?

I assume it's a way of numbering your image uploads to the upload folder, since this was the first image I've uploaded to that folder I designated it "wp-image-001". I just want to be sure I understand this correctly. Thanks

juggledad

Oct 15, 2009 05:42 PM

that is a class for the particular image - in my case this is image 37 - I could use this to set a CSS rule for this item.

I got this info by inserting an image I had uploaded into a post, viewing the post then viewing the source of the page.

valis

Oct 15, 2009 06:02 PM

OK. I get it. That's a useful thing to know.

Now, here's a really stupid question, how do I add that info like you have (software version numbers you're on) that appears beneath the post numbers at the bottom of the forum message box?

juggledad

Oct 15, 2009 06:34 PM

in the forum->user CP->Edit Your Details, just stick in in place of 'Location'

valis

Oct 16, 2009 03:41 AM

Thanks.

Who marks this thread as SOLVED ?

juggledad

Oct 16, 2009 05:06 AM

the owner or a moderator - it is under the tab 'thread tools' If you started it, you can ever re-open it. I will close this

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