{"id":5409,"date":"2008-11-03T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2008-11-06T05:59:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:59:50","slug":"prequel-to-speaking-in-tongues-displaying-author-images-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5409\/prequel-to-speaking-in-tongues-displaying-author-images-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Prequel to Speaking in Tongues: Displaying Author Images in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, Greg described this process in Project Bloodhound speaking in tongues: To whom am I speaking?<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, I had no\u00a0need to implement author images in a WordPress multi-author blog, (and I already knew the technique for TypePad), so I didn’t work with the process until just today.<\/p>\n

As I set up what will become a company blog for our incoming agents, I realized that the average WordPress user might need a little more background information to put Greg’s code to use.<\/p>\n

First of all, you need to find all your authors’ ID numbers.\u00a0 Unfortunately current versions of WordPress do not show author ID numbers.\u00a0 The easy solution for me was to download the Reveal IDs for WP Admin <\/a>plugin.<\/p>\n

Once the Reveal IDs plugin is activated, when you go to the Users page,\u00a0you’ll see each author’s ID number displayed beside their username.\u00a0 All ID numbers, that is, except your own.\u00a0 The only way to see your own ID number is to create a new separate admin username and login, then login as that new identity, and find your old self on the list.<\/p>\n

Next step:\u00a0 Obtain images of each author.\u00a0 Resize each image (I decided on 52 pixels in height, and 50 pixels in width as appropriate for the design I am using.)\u00a0 Each image must be named simply by the author ID number.\u00a0 For instance, my lovely image here on Bloodhound Blog is titled 34.jpg.<\/p>\n

Upload all the newly resized and newly renamed images to your blog’s root directory.<\/p>\n

Now you are ready to rock and roll.<\/p>\n

Open your Main Index Template file (index.php)<\/p>\n

I simplified Greg’s code for now to only display the author’s image and name<\/p>\n

<img src=”http:\/\/www.bobtaylorproperties.com\/blog\/<?php the_author_ID(); ?>.jpg” height=”52″ width=”50″ align=”left” hspace=”10″>
\nPosted by <?php the_author() ?> <br><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I\u00a0placed it under the PHP code that inserts the post title.\u00a0 Here’s the complete snippet:<\/p>\n

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
\n<div class=”entry”><\/em><\/p>\n

<h1><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?><\/a><\/h1> <\/em><\/p>\n

<img src=”<\/strong><\/em>http:\/\/www.bobtaylorproperties.com\/blog\/<?php<\/strong><\/em> the_author_ID(); ?>.jpg” height=”52″ width=”50″ align=”left” Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, Greg described this process in Project Bloodhound speaking in tongues: To whom am I speaking? At the time, I had no\u00a0need to implement author images in a WordPress multi-author blog, (and I already knew the technique for TypePad), so I didn’t work with the process until just today. As I set up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,175,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-lending","8":"category-project-blooodhound","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1224,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1224\/how-to-make-google-your-weblogs-best-friend\/","url_meta":{"origin":5409,"position":0},"title":"Project Bloodhound: How to make Google your weblog’s best friend","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[This is one of the all-time most popular posts on BloodhoundBlog. 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