About Me Widget

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  broccolibabbles · Member · Sep 1, 2014 at 1:13 pm

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  I want to add a picture of me and a small “about” section to my sidebar on my site. I see the “About.Me” widget but I don’t think that’s necessarily what I’m looking for. Can you instruct me on how to add this small about me section? Thanks!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 11:34 am

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  Hi there,

  One option is to add the Gravatar Profile Widget to your sidebar. That widget displays your Gravatar image and some information from your public profile — you can view and edit those from your public profile settings here: https://wordpress.com/settings/public-profile/

  You could also use an Image Widget to display the picture and a Text Widget to write the “about” section, if you’d like to customize it specifically for your site.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  broccolibabbles · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 12:03 am

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  Perfect. How can I add a widget that links to my email address? Like a “contact me” via email link? I see the widget called “Contact Info” but it doesn’t give an option to include an email address. Any ideas? Thank you for your help.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm

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  You can add a link like that using HTML in a Text Widget. Here’s the HTML you can use to make an email link:

  <a href="mailto:YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS">contact me</a>

  Another option is to put a Contact Form in a text widget. You can create the form using the post editor, and then copy the code out of that post and into a text widget. That way, visitors can contact you directly from that form.

  Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)

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  broccolibabbles · Member · Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41 pm

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  Perfect. You have been a huge help. Thanks!