By Peter Gales on Monday, 13 May 2019
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Hi,
How do I allow a site user to click on the author of a blog and see that author's blogging profile?

Right now a user can click on the author's name, but it doesn't take them to the info the blogger has entered about their biography etc.

Fyi, I've disabled the blog toolbar and have opted instead for creating menu items.

Thanks for your help.

Peter
Hi Peter,

To display the blogger's biography and the others you need to enable the authors heading.
In your site backend go to Settings > Views > Single Author > In the Author section enable the Show Author Heading > Save your changes.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:05
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Thanks.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:23
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Now I notice that the bio is listed as one solid block of text. No paragraphs or white space. Why is that? See attachments.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019 23:07
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I also notice that the author profile pic, remains very small even when looking at the bio. You can see it in one of the attachments. Can I set it so that the author profile pic (avatar) displays like a post image? Much bigger than it is now.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019 23:15
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Hey Peter,

Now I notice that the bio is listed as one solid block of text. No paragraphs or white space. Why is that?


For this, you need to disable the Enable Biography Truncation from your site backend > Settings > Views > Single Author tab > under Author section https://take.ms/yRSzK

I also notice that the author profile pic, remains very small even when looking at the bio. You can see it in one of the attachments. Can I set it so that the author profile pic (avatar) displays like a post image? Much bigger than it is now.


If you set the author avatar to look alike the post image then the quality of the image will be very bad/poor since when uploading the image it is resized to a smaller image. But you can try it in this way, it's a suggestion only, you can use this custom css

body #eb.eb-view-blogger .eb-authors-head .eb-authors-avatar {
display: none;
}


This will hide the small author avatar in the Author Heading. Also, when you upload an image for the avatar put the image in the biography also https://take.ms/0a2x6 .Thus the page will display like this https://take.ms/12xI4
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Wednesday, 15 May 2019 13:39
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Thanks Suganthi.
I will leave the avatar as is, but will take your suggestion and insert the image in the post itself. But a curious thing happens. I'm not presented with the joomla media folders when I click on either "insert/edit image" or "insert/edit media." I'm presented with fields to embed urls. Why do I not get the joomla folder structure to select already uploaded images?
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Thursday, 16 May 2019 03:32
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Hi Peter,

It seems like the current version doesn't allow to select the uploaded image from the biography.I attached a file here to have the option in the biography for now. You can download and place it in the file location:

JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easyblog/themes/default/bloggers/form/blog.php

I will create a ticket for this issue to improve it in the future version.
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Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:41
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Thanks, but I can't find that folder. See attachment.
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Friday, 17 May 2019 00:26
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Hey Peter,

You looking for the file in public_html is a wrong path. You should look from administrator folder.

JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easyblog/themes/default/bloggers/form/blog.php
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Friday, 17 May 2019 11:19
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Thanks. It worked, but now I have another problem. The image pushes the text to go mostly below so I have a lot of awkard white space on the right side of the image. How can I get the text to fit on the right side of the image?
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Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:45
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Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

You have to set your image to align to left (screenshot : http://take.ms/VQfEP ).
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Saturday, 18 May 2019 10:58
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