Thesis is the most popular search engine friendly and optimized theme. It provides you very easy experiment to add or update your theme code. It has its own designer tool, which allows you to customize your header menu, Side bar, Footer and other areas with just a few clicks. When i bought thesis, i found little difficulty in adding Author Bio at the end of the post. I tried a lot of methods, but due to my lake of knowledge about CSS and HTML i did not achieved it.
Finally i found a working method for adding Author Bio in WordPress Thesis Theme. Follow the below steps to add a cool and well designed author bio in your blog posts.
Requirements
- Fill Your Profile with informative information
- Content Width Area should not be more then 550px
- If your blog background color is gray i.e. the same as the color of the author bio, then change either your blog background color or author bio background color.
Add Author Bio in WordPress Thesis Theme
Edit Your Function.php
Go to your wordpress press Dash Board> Thesis> Custom File Editor and select function.php and click on “Edit” button. Paste the below code in your function.php file and click on “Save Button”
function post_footer() {
if (is_single())
{
?>
<div>
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_id() , 120 ); ?>
<h4>Article by <a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>">
<?php the_author_firstname(); ?> <?php the_author_lastname(); ?></a></h4>
<p><?php the_author_firstname(); ?> has written <strong><?php the_author_posts(); ?></strong> awesome articles for us. <br/><br/><?php the_author_description(); ?></p>
</div>
<?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_post_box', 'post_footer');
The next step is to customize your Author Bio Area.
Add Code to Your Custom.css
Now select Custom.css from the list and click on “Edit” button. Paste the below code in your custom.css file and save it.
.postauthor { background: #F5F5F5; border-top: 1px solid #e1e1e0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e0; overflow: hidden; padding: 1.5em; }
.postauthor img { border: 5px solid #e2dede; float: left; margin-right: 1.5em; }
.postauthor h4 { color: #666; font-size: 2em; margin-bottom: 5px; }
.postauthor p { color: #515151; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 12px; }
Finally you will see a well designed Author Bio at the end of your blog posts
Customization
You can change the background color according to your theme background color. Similarly you can change text and heading color. Change the bottom and top margin size with accordance to your theme requirement.
Let me know if you have any problem in adding Author Bio in your Thesis theme.
