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What if I don't set any value in the widget settings?

If you don't set any values then widget displays the profile with some default text and values. The default widget title is 'Author Spotlight', other label defaults are More posts by the Author », Read Full and Website:. The number of characters displayed in author profile is limited to 1000 characters by default.

I added the widget on home page and it doesn't work!

The Widget will only work on the Post (or Single) page since it is meant to display the profile of the author of the post. If you drop the widget on any other page, that doesn't have an associated author, the widget won't display anything.

I don't like my avatar image, can I upload my own photo?

If you wish to display a custom photograph to go with the Author's Profile you may install the User Photo. In absence of this plugin the 'Author Spotlight" widget will fallback to displaying the gravatar associated with the user.

The widget doesn't display my website OR my profile details are incomplete!

The widget picks details from User's WordPress profile. Needless to say that if this information is not there the widget cannot display it. To set your own user-profile details go to Users > Your Profile. If you are an admin of the blog the you may also edit the profile of other users and add their profile image if the User Photo plugin is installed.

The link to the author profile page doesn't work for me!

For the link to the full profile page of the author to work you would need to ensure that your wordpress theme contains the author.php. Refer this codex page for details on the author templates.

My blog posts are written by multiple authors, how can I display all profiles on the post page?

Beginning 2.0 release this plugin now supports the excellent Co-Authors Plus plugin, if you have this plugin installed all author profiles would show up on the Single page without any extra configuration. This plugin lets you add multiple authors to a post. Remember that our plugin works even without the Co-Authors Plus plugin.