add image to authors page?

This will be theme specific, so a link to your site might help. Or try placing a copy of your theme’s author.php file into the WordPress pastebin and post the pastebin url here. Perhaps someone will be able to spot the problem and suggest a solution.

I installed the user photo plugin and activated it.
I uploaded a photo for the author under their profile and in my author’s template I added this line of code:

<img src="https://www.yourdomainname.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/<?php echo $curauth->userphoto_image_file;?>" alt="<?php echo $curauth->first_name; ?> <?php echo $curauth->last_name; ?>" class="alignright" />

That allowed me to display the author photo.

here is the link to my site so that you can see the example of the image that is missing…

https://proconnection.servicemagic.com/author/seymour-t/

Looks like you’re trying to pull an image from gravatar.com. Have you uploaded your photo on there?

thanks! I’ve sent an email to all of our authors asking them to upload an image. we’ll see what happens!

I’ve used this plugin to add an author image:

https://www.semiologic.com/software/author-image/

This allows you to add the image in Dashboard and call to the image using <?php the_author_image();?> in your template. Along with WordPress’s “built-in” <?php the_author();?> and <?php the_author_description();?> you can build a nice author page or include the author bio at the bottom of a post.

For bonus points, you can implement your own default gravatar.

// THIS ADDS CUSTOM DEFAULT GRAVATAR
if ( !function_exists('fb_addgravatar') ) {
    function fb_addgravatar( $avatar_defaults ) {
    $myavatar = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/icon.png';
    //default avatar
    $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = 'The Voodoo Empire';
    return $avatar_defaults;
    }
 add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'fb_addgravatar' );
}

in your themes functions.php ('/images/icon.png') will need to be edited to your image (which will need to be uploaded to the images folder in your theme)

Then under settings->discussion your new icon will show up. You can select it, and then when people don’t have a gravatar set up, it will use the icon you uploaded

Dunno if this interests you, but I just discovered how to do it…..and I think its cool, so figgered Id share

okay, so one of the authors just uploaded a gravatar image but it still doesn’t appear in his author page on the blog. should i be able to see something immediately? i am still baffled by the fact that one of the other author’s gravatar images appears on his author page, yet i didn’t do anything at all to make it appear. i am such a novice at this stuff!