# Author Bios

Posted on 1 October, 2018 at 08:00 -0400 by Glenn Rice

Category: meta

The bottom of every page in the theme can optionally show a short biography of the site author, including a profile picture, email link, and location.

## Setting up the author bio

A set of configuration options are used for displaying the biography.

    [params]
      Author = "Author Name"
      Avatar = "images/site-logo.svg"
      Biography = "A short description, a few sentences describing the author. Set
                   the 'ShowBio' parameter to false to hide this."
      ShowBio = true

    [params.indieWeb]
        EmailAddress = "email.address@example.com"
        Country = "CountryName"
        City = "CityName"

Specifics on each setting item are as follows:

- `Author`: Your name; this is the site author name.
- `Avatar`: The path to your profile picture. By default, it will show the theme’s logo (`/static/images/site-logo.svg`).
- `Biography`: Hopefully the placeholder text here is self-explanatory; add a couple of short sentences about yourself here.
- `ShowBio`: If you prefer not to show the author bio, set this to `false`. By default, it’s set to `true`.
- `EmailAddress`: The email address at which you can be contacted.
- `Country`: The name of the country in which you live.
- `City`: The name of the city in which you live.

## IndieWeb features

The following classes are used to mark up the author bio for IndieWeb parsing:

Element | Class
--- | ---
The author card | `h-card`
Profile picture | `u-photo`
Author URL* | `p-name`, `u-url`, `rel=me`
City | `p-locality`
Country | `p-country-name`
Email address | `u-email`
Biography | `p-note`

*Author URL is set to the site’s base URL.