the wp user avatar support forum sounds abysmal. the others look pretty good, thank you for the suggestions.
i’m looking for a key word ‘responsive’ once it was mentioned in my research. i’m going to try what my theme developer suggests = http://codecanyon.net/item/fanciest-author-box/2504522?s_rank=1
well, this plugin works nicely in the post, it adds the bio complete with links.
a relevant question. there is also a tab that will pull all of the author posts, a simple wp category search. but, instead of the custom photo shown in the post, it’s the gray profile avatar in the users profile. i don’t see any provision to place a photo in the user / author.
i’m using fanciest author box. i will ask them. on another note…
please forget plugins. how do i add an image / gravatar to a user profile? are we saying in wp we can’t add an image without a plugin except via gravatar.org ?
Correct, by default, WordPress only supports Gravatar.
So, if you want to extend that to something else, you’ll need a plugin.
so, we use the fanciest author box plugin for a custom user profile image, user profile bio and link to all author posts
and we add another plugin, maybe the avatar manager, to replace the default grey head shot with a custom image.
I’m not sure, this was added in v1.1 of Fanciest Author Box back in 2012:
Added Photo URL field to user profiles, if it has value, that URL will be used to override Gravatar image, if left empty Gravatar will be used.
According to http://codecanyon.net/item/fanciest-author-box/2504522
I don’t own the plugin, and don’t see anything else mentioned there, so I can’t be sure what that means.
