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1. 

   ableparris
   Member

   I'd like to add an avatar and some styling to the author bio that appears at the bottom of the post. Is there a way to do this thru the functions.php file?

   (I'm working on a child theme for a site with multiple authors)

   Posted 14 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hey Able,

   you can do this by creating a filter in your functions.php .. will this be a complete rewrite of the post footer or do you want to keep parts of it? Need more details.

   Cheers,

   Chris

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   ableparris
   Member

   Hi Chris,

   I don't <i>think</i> it'd be a complete rewrite. All a really need is a way to add a photo to the author bio, but it's not accepting the image HTML.

   I'm thinking I'll have to do it another way. I'm open to suggestions.

   Sorry if that's not a helpful answer. :-/

   UPDATE:
   I just need a simple author bio like this one:
   http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofeyecandy

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Looks like a nice addition for my Code Snippets Project :-)

   .. will be back with a solution tomorrow.

   Cheers,

   Chris

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hey Able,

   as promised .. here's your solution .. I added a tiny bit of markup .. add everything to your child theme's functions.php and do a bit of styling:

   function childtheme_postfooter($content) {
   	// we want the author's bio only on a single post
   	if (is_single()) {
   		$content .= "\n";
   		$content .= "\t";
   		// the whole class containing everything
   		$content .= '<div class="author_info">' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t";
   		// the class containing the gravatar
   		$content .= '<div class="author_gravatar">' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t" . "\t";
   		$content .= str_replace( "class='avatar", "class='photo avatar", get_avatar(get_the_author_email()) ) . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t";
   		$content .= '</div> <!-- #author_gravatar -->' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t";
   		// the class containing the author's name and bio
   		$content .= '<div class="author_bio">' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t" . "\t";
   		// we're getting the name
   		$content .= '<strong>' . get_the_author() . '</strong>' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t" . "\t";
   		// we're getting the bio
   		$content .= get_the_author_description() . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t" . "\t";
   		$content .= '</div> <!-- #author_bio -->' . "\n";
   		$content .= "\t";
   		$content .= '</div> <!-- #author_info -->' . "\n";
   	}
   	// we need to return the postfooter content anyway
   	return $content;
   }
   // add the filter function to the main function
   add_filter('thematic_postfooter', 'childtheme_postfooter');

   Tested and approved.

   This function will be published in my Code Snippets in a couple of days including some basic CSS styling.

   Cheers,

   Chris

   Posted 14 years ago #
6. 

   ableparris
   Member

   Thanks Chris. And thanks for the note on Twitter!

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   webdevTy
   Member

   
   

   Posted 13 years ago #

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