badgolfer1974

Hallelujah.

Apparently I had different emails for WordPress and Gravatar.

As for the line breaks, I followed your very CLEAR instructions (the quick and dirty version). Just remember us newbies literally need to be talked to like 5 year olds. I didn’t know where to insert that text in the functions.php before.

The blog now looks respectable, thanks to you Gary.
Best,
Norman

by the way, you can see my blog site at https://TheEducatedSociety.com

Hi Gary,

Thank you for being so patient, but I really have no idea what I’m doing. I feel like I’ve followed everything in your configuration guide:

1) Now I have an author bio on my homepage (after I dragged the WP biographia widget to the sidebar), which is good, yet no image shows up even when I uploaded a pic on gravatar (even though I have the “Show User’s Avatar” box checked.

2) The line breaks in my author bio is challenging as a layperson who knows nothing about codes. I tried my best, and copied the html code that was recommended to the functions.php, but of course no one ever mentioned “where” in the box to copy it to, other than “just insert it in the functions.php!” (the top? the bottom? there are like 500 lines in that box!) I copied it to the top of the box, updated it, and got strange lines of gibberish on the top of my website, so I took it out.

3) Finally, I can’t seem to remove the search widget from my sidebar, even though I dragged it out of my “active” list to the inactive list. As a result, the search widget takes up space on the right side and makes my author bio column long and narrow. I know this isn’t a wp biographia thing, but even with the configuration guide, it’s like you need a phd to do this. and I have one lol.

anything you can do to help me would be great–again, i appreciate your patience.