Add an author

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Add yourself to the authors list

  1. Add a new object to authors.yaml with the following structure. Make sure to choose a unique author slug.

    authorslug:
    title:
    en: Full Name
    description:
    en: A relevant description about yourself you'd like to share.

    You can add multiple titles and descriptions to your author data for each language that is supported by using the ISO 639-1 code for that language.

    authorslug:
    title:
    en: Full Name
    es: Nombre completo
    description:
    en: A relevant description about yourself you'd like to share.
    es: Una descripción relevante traducida por Google sobre usted que le gustaría compartir.
  2. If you want links to your online accounts to appear in your author lookup add a new object to authorsData.json with the following structure. Make sure to use the same author slug used in the authors.yaml.

    "jaimiesmith": {
    "twitter": "jaimiesmith",
    "github": "jaimiesmith",
    "glitch": "jaimiesmith",
    "homepage": "https://jaimiesmithis.cool/"
    }

When you add an author, the author profile won't show on the relevant page immediately. You have to associate some content with the profile to see any changes to the authors' page.

Create a profile image

  1. Follow the Images and video guide to upload your photo to the CDN.

  2. The image uploader will return a shortcode. Copy the src value from the shortcode and use it as the image value in your profile in the authorsData.json.

    "jaimiesmith": {
    "twitter": "jaimiesmith",
    "github": "jaimiesmith",
    "glitch": "jaimiesmith",
    "homepage": "https://jaimiesmithis.cool/",
    "image": "image/foR0vJZKULb5AGJExlazy1xYDgI2/ZOR0at2oFXeasz6jKylI.jpg"
    }

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