Monday, November 26, 2012

Add WordPress Style Author Bio Box In Blogger Blog

Author: Gagan Masoun
Add WordPress Style Author Bio Box In Blogger BlogMany BlogSport users want an Author Bio Box like WordPress hosted blogs. So, here is a good news for all Blogger users that you can get an Author Bio Box in Blogger Blogs with the help of simple trick. The Author Bio Box is also useful for blogs like BlogsDaddy.Com which receive  a lot of guest-posts daily.

In tutorial I'm going to share how to add WordPress style author bio box in Blogger blogs. You can change the information in code according to your choice. If you want to use your own image in author box then use 80 x 80 pixel image. See demo below and after that follow steps to add this widget.

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Live Demo

How to Add WordPress Style Author Bio Box In Blogger Blog

  • Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template 
  • Click EDIT HTML Button > Proceed
  • Press (Ctrl+F) & Find Below Code
]]</b:skin>
  • Paste Below Code Before ]]</b:skin>
#postauthor { background: #eef7f8; border: 1px solid #c6d9ed; padding:10px; margin: 15px 0; width:630px; height:100px; font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; }
#author-info{float:left; width:410px; padding:0 15px 0 0; border-right:1px solid #ccc; }
#author-info img {background:#fff; border: 1px solid #ddd; float: left; margin-right:10px;padding: 5px;
box-shadow: 0 0 3px #CCC; padding:3px;}#author-info h6 { color: #666; font-size: 18px; font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif }
#author-info h5 {color:#666; text-transform:none; font-size:12px; letter-spacing:0; font-family: Georgia;}
#author-info p { color: #515151; font-size: 12px; line-height:16px; font-family: Georgia;}
* { margin:0; padding:0;}#author-connect{width:21%; float:right; margin-right:8%; }
a.gplus-s{background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyyji17V15u4pCY6LTF64me2jXPgnGF-XukfZFwqzxskLhwiuvcOHrqGufjXDHDT5lskyqRiYLqPqaqPWQVVcDJENkUKWJ_zNraemM5Opf7rFCgi2LRyXWIbnJEfZZH4alWdQjn6PIx4fn/s1600/gp-icon.png") no-repeat 0 0px; color: #666;  font-weight: bold;margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0 20px;text-decoration: none;}
  • Now Press (Ctrl+F) & Find Below Code 
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
  • Paste Below Code Before <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.author == &quot;Author Name&quot;'>
<div id="postauthor">
<div id="author-info">
 <img alt='' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WoPN6E1iUx74GrC9i-UlUZAqs02PFHgfwTvEY4fWAUTKqX0jq4xGtgCP1qrmL6iN8GVuUTvwj9u_INuzD0tfwrgUQwvWt8O5a5LwQ-Ima4yRegxbFvzSUxv8gYzWyO2OoXDeJ5ZNKxs/s1600/author.jpg'  height='80' width='80' /><h6 style="font:Georgia">Article by <a expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' rel='author'><data:post.author/></a></h6>
<h5>"Author Name" has Written Many Useful Articles.</h5>
<p>If you like This post, you can follow Blogs Daddy on <strong> 
<a href="http://twitter.com/BlogsDaddy" rel="nofollow" >Twitter  </a> </strong>. Subscribe to <strong> Blogs Daddy feed via <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlogsDaddy" rel="nofollow" >RSS</a> or  <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=BlogsDaddy&amp;loc=en_US" rel="nofollow" > EMAIL </a>  </strong>to receive instant updates.</p></div>
<div id="author-connect">
<iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBlogsDaddy&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=120&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=21&amp;appId=230688610312045" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:120px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>          
<a href="https://twitter.com/blogsdaddy" rel="nofollow" target='_blank' class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="small">Follow @blogsdaddy</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> 
<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/106217413057730068740" target="_blank" rel="nofollo" class="gplus-s" >Google</a></div></div>
</b:if></b:if>
Remember Notes : The social and feed links are highlighted in yellow, you need to change these to your own. You can replace pink color highlighted link with your own author pic and you can change author name by changing "Author Name" in red color.
  • Now Click On Save Your Template and You're All Done!
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Author
Author - Gagan Masoun is the owner of Blogs Daddy Blog.Gagan lives in India, has been blogging since 2010 and writing Blogs Daddy Blog since 2011.You can find him in the usual social networks.

7 comments:

  1. My blog's html doesn't contain the code you mensioned above to find.

    Kindly tell me what to do now?

    MY BLOG---> USEFUL TRICKS

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    1. I checked this code again and It is working properly here.Please copy full code and try again.

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    2. Im not gud in html sir..
      I have followed the steps mensioned above. The code which you hv addressed to find in the template xhtml is not present in my blog. So i dnt hv any idea, where to place this code.. :(

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    3. Hello Abhishek,

      Sorry for late reply, I changed the procedure above. Find this code in your template and use instead of < class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> this code. Try this :)

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  2. This code is working in posts. but it is not working post footer line.

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  3. Not working in my blog www.pokharatech.com !

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    1. Hey Bishnu, try to put the code in Post Template :)

      Blogger Dashboard >> Settings >> Post and Comments >> Post Template

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