Hello and welcome to WPBeginner. In this
video I'll show you how you can add an
author info box in your WordPress posts.
Author boxes are great for connecting
with your readers and offering a sense of
credibility to your site. There are three
methods we'll cover and the first one if
you'll go to your dashboard and go to the
plugins area add new we'll be adding a
plugin for this part. Under search
plugins you want to look for Guerrilla's
Author Box and from here we want to
install and activate it. And once you do
that you'll want to go to user's profile
and scroll all the way down and this is where you'll enter your information.
Your profile picture will be coming from Gravatar
but you can, so you can change that there
once you've added that information go ahead
and click Update Profile. As an
administrator you can also update
everybody else's profile information
just click on the user and update their
profile from there and when you go to
your site you can click on a post and
when you scroll down you can see the
author box here. The next way we'll install
another box is by doing it for a widget
area in the sidebar. To do that we'll go
back to plugins add new and we're going
to search for Meks smart author widget this time. Once we find it we'll click install and activate.
Now we can go to appearance widgets to add the widget to our sidebar
so I found the widget here I'll just drag it over and I
can choose which author to show I want to show the avatar, show the author name, description
like that so I'm going to click save then once
again we'll go to our website, click on homepage
and now you see it here in action.
The final method that you can use is a
little bit more advanced and it involves
adding code to your functions page I'm
gonna grab all of this code. Grab it here
copy and then you wanna go back to your
site, go to editor and this is for your theme's specific
functions page so we're gonna look for that. I'm gonna scroll all the way down
and I'm gonna add that and now you see it right here. And now
you've seen three ways to add the author
info box on your WordPress website.
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