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<p>Easy Author Image gives you the option do you exactly that — easily add an author image to your profile page. Once you install this plugin, you’ll have a new option in the Your Profile tab (under Users) called Profile Picture, complete with a media uploader box that allows you to upload your very own author picture.</p>
<p>Whether you call it an avatar, an author image, or an author picture, Easy Author Image is a “Works Out Of The Box (WOOT-B)” solution to a common problem.</p>
<p>How does it work?</p>
<p>Once you update your profile, your new profile picture will replace every instance of where a Gravatar would normally show up. For every user on your blog (including you), the plugin will first check for an Easy Author Image profile picture and display that. If you or one of your users have not set your profile picture (common on blogs with many users, or with users who prefer to use Gravatar), the plugin defaults to the user’s Gravatar.</p>
<p>Plugin Support</p>
<p>Reach out to me via <a href="https://github.com/jesselawson" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> or email (jesselawson at protonmail dot com).</p>
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<p>Thank you everyone who has downloaded this so far.</p>


Easy Author Image

Adds an author image uploader to your profile page. Upload an author image right from your profile page with the click of a button.

Denis de Bernardy

Mike Koepke

<p>The Author Image plugin for WordPress lets you easily add author images on your site.</p>
<p>It creates a widget that you can insert in a sidebar or any other widget area allowed by your theme.<br />
The plugin now supports a short code [author-image] you cna use to directly add the image to the page or post content.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can place the following call in the loop where you want the author image to appear:</p>
<pre><code><?php the_author_image($author_id = null); ?>

This $author_id parameter is optional.  If it is not passed in, the code will attempt to get the current author of the page/post.
</code></pre>
<p>A second version of this function exists whereby you can pass in width and height to display the image.</p>
<pre><code><?php the_author_image_size($width, $height, $author_id = null); ?>

This $author_id parameter is optional.  If it is not passed in, the code will attempt to get the current author of the page/post.
</code></pre>
<p>To configure your author image, browse Users / Your Profile in the admin area.</p>
<h4>Setting Author Image Size</h4>
<p>You can adjust the actual display size in the Author Image widget or by using the_author_image_size function call.</p>
<p>If you do not specify a size the width and height of the actual image will be used.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>You can use [author-image] to display the uploaded author image in your page/post content.</p>
<h4>Author’s Bio</h4>
<p>You can configure the widget so it outputs the author’s description in addition to his image.</p>
<p>This fits well on a site where the author’s image is placed in a sidebar, or the <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/sem-reloaded/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semiologic theme</a> when the widget is placed immediately after the posts’ content — i.e. “About The Author.”</p>
<h4>Gravatar Support</h4>
<p>The uploaded image will be used as your gravatar by themes that call the get_avatar() function.  This will override an image set on gravatar.com</p>
<h4>Multi-Author Sites</h4>
<p>For sites with multitudes of authors, the widget offers the ability to insert a link to the author’s posts — his archives.</p>
<h4>Single Author Sites</h4>
<p>Normally the widget will only display an author image when it can clearly identify who the content’s author actually is. In other words, on singular pages or in the loop.</p>
<p>If you run a single author site, or a site with multiple ghost writers, be sure to check the “This site has a single author” option. The widget will then output your image at all times.</p>
<h4>Alternate About Page Link</h4>
<p>Normally the widget will use the author’s posts page (/author/authorname/) is the image is clicked on.   If your site has a dedicated page for the author, such as an ‘About Me’ page,</p>
<p>there is a new field in ‘Your Profile’ called ‘About Me Page’.  Entering a url in this field (/about-me/) will cause the widget to use this link as opposed to /author/authorname.</p>
<h4>Retrieving Author Url</h4>
<p>You can retrieve the url to the respective author image by calling the function</p>
<pre><code><?php the_author_image_url($author_id = null); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>If $author_id is blank the plugin will attempt to determine the current author and retrieve his/her image.</p>
<h4>Help Me!</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sem-author-image" rel="ugc">Plugin’s Forum</a> is the best place to report issues.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Props to By Daniel J. Schneider for author_image_url functionality</p>


Author Image

Lets you easily add author images on your site.

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