I have installed WP Biographia to use it as a sidebar/widget bio only. I have therefore deselected all other options on the “Design” page of the plugin.
Err, there isn’t a Design tab for the plugin’s settings and options … do you mean the Display tab?
But assuming you meant the Display tab, then deselecting all the checkboxes on this tab will stop the plugin automagically adding the Biography Box to the content of posts and pages.
Quick note – this won’t stop the plugin displaying the Biography Box if you’re using the plugin’s shortcode in the content of one or your posts or pages and/or if you’re using one of the plugin’s template tags in one of your theme’s template files.
For some reason, on all pages the avatar is not showing. “Show Avatar” is selected in Discussion/Settings.
Assuming you want avatars to work natively with WordPress and the plugin’s widget (and not via a plugin which locally hosts avatar images), then you need to ensure that …
1. Show Avatars is selected in Settings / Discussions (which you’ve done).
2. Show User’s Avatar is selected in the widget’s settings in Appearance / Widgets
3. The email account associated with your WordPress site’s user is the same as the one you’ve used to register with on gravatar.com and that you’ve uploaded an avatar image on gravatar.com.
If you’ve done all of the above, then your avatar should appear. If it doesn’t then it’s possible that either your theme or another plugin is somehow now playing well with WP Biographia. In this case, the standard WordPress troubleshooting technique of reverting to a stock WordPress theme (one of the Twenty series) and disabling all other plugins and then re-enabling them one by one, testing after you’ve enabled each plugin, should help narrow down the problem area.
Addditionally, on my Blog(gathering page of new posts) and About Me(a regular page) page neither the avatat nor my bio are shown.
Probably a silly question, but do the page templates for these pages support widgets and if so, have you added the widget to the correct widgetized sidebar or footer? The number of sidebars/headers/footers that support widgets varies considerably from theme to theme.
Another question I have is whether it is possible to change the hyperlink the Username in the widget currently redirects to. I’d like it to redirect to my About Me page.
I’m afraid this isn’t possible. The link is generated by the WordPress get_author_posts_url API call and this only returns the link to the author archive page for the current author. If you want a custom link to another page, you can accomplish this by using the plugin’s wp_biographia_contact_info and wp_biographia_link_items filters to add another contact link type.
-Gary
