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User Profile widget

User Profile widget

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User Profile widget

- [Instructor] All right, let's talk about the user profile widget, another widget you'll find when you have the Genesis framework installed. As the name suggests, this widget provides a way to easily show off a user photo in the bio. I'll add it to my primary sidebar here, and let's check out what each of these options does. Title, of course, is simply the title of the widget. I'll say About Me. And from this dropdown, you can select any users currently on this WordPress site. On this site, it just so happens I'm the only user. And you can select the Gravatar size and alignment, which we've seen before. But remember, in order to have a Gravatar, you need to have an account here at Gravatar.com that uses the same email address that you're using for your WordPress user profile. From there, we can either display the Author Bio that you may have entered on your WordPress user profile, or enter some custom text. For example…

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