EDITED: I’ve removed the plug in after a bit more discussion. We just couldn’t get it to look nice across all the pages, and it was the only plugin that allowed us to change the location of the author without paying for a ‘pro’ version.
I did some investigating today about how we could put our names/avatars at the top of each post. This is apparently called an “author box” and there are several plug-ins that will allow you to modify this, but, it turns out, few that will allow you to put it at the top of the post (without paying for a ‘pro’ version) and fewer still that will display the author box on the blog feed page, which is where we really want it.
The one I’m using here, set to it’s minimal setting, is called Starbox. It works, but in order for the avatar/name to show up on the blog feed, you have to add a shortcut tag to the top of the page, in this case (without the spaces) [ starbox ]. Since there are several of us, we might have to make that starbox id=”login_name” with the brackets.
It gets the job done but I can’t say I like it. There’s a better template in the settings but it doesn’t seem to play nice with the theme we’re using and it jams the avatar too far to the left.
Thoughts? Do we do this manually instead?
I’m not keen on how much space there is below the title of the post and the avatar.
I don’t mind it, but I’m not sure it looks any better than my alignleft avatar image, which puts the text along side of the image, so the post starts at the top, IYKWIM.
I agree – I think what you’re doing looks nicer than what the plug in is doing. I was just trying to figure out if there’s a way to not have to make that an extra step for everybody. Might not be possible, which sort of pisses me off because it seems like that should be a no-brainer functionality.
Unless… I wonder if I can move it to the top in the theme code? Not sure if I’m prepared to tackle that today but I’ll think about it.
I think it looks nice either way, though I do agree there’s a lot of white space beneath the post title.
I’ve just checked all the remaining plug ins that do the same thing and this one seems to be the only one that allows us to move the author box to the top without paying for a Pro version. :{