Add a new author by creating the following file. content/en/authors/jim-jones/_index.md
Inside the file add the following content
---
title: "Jim Jones"
name: "Jim Jones"
avatar: "images/team/jim-jones.jpg"
---
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Make sure to add the author image in static/images/team/jim-jones.jpg - normally I make these images 400x400px square.
Open up an existing blog post file content/en/posts/designing-your-brand.md
Edit the frontmatter authors field changing it from authors: ['Mike Vance'] to authors: ['Jim Jones']
author is defined as a custom taxonomy in config.toml
The logic that renders the author avatar is found in themes/hugo-advance/layouts/partials/components/author.html
{{- range .Params.authors }}
{{- with $.Site.GetPage "taxonomyTerm" (printf "authors/%s" (urlize .)) }}
{{ if .Params.avatar }}
<img src="{{ .Params.avatar | relURL }}" alt="{{ .Params.name }}"/>
{{ end }}
<a class="mr-1" href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Params.name }}</a>
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
We use the Hugo GetPage function to lookup the author page and extract the image path. This function accepts a url path ie “/authors/jim-jones”. We construct this path use the urlize function which converts the value found in authors: ["Jim Jones"] into jim-jones and we use printf "authors/%s" to concatenate the string into /authors/jim-jones"
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