create a page showcasing all our authors and contributors with a picture and bio

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  csgard · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm

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  Hi, I am trying to create a page where I list 40 of our contributors with a picture and a short text. The should have a link to the contributors full bio. One of the issues to consider is tha those 40 people do not have wordpress accounts.
  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 9:58 pm

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  Why don’t you all register gravatar accounts? It’s free and easy to do, and then you will be able to link to the Gravatar profile pages on the Page you create in the blog.
  http://en.gravatar.com/support/what-is-gravatar/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/

  Here’s an example of a gravatar profile page
  http://en.gravatar.com/matt

  If you do that then you can also use these:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/gravatar-hovercards/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/gravatar-profile-widget/
  

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  You also need to read some support docs so you know that no one who does not have a WordPress.COM/Gravatar account can contribute to the blog.

  If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  As noted above they need accounts but do not need to register blogs. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  The limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.

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  csgard · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 11:09 pm

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  Thanks!
  Can you create a page that has all your hovercards together ?(http://en.support.wordpress.com/gravatar-hovercards/)

  What if I want to create a page with the list of people who are helping with editing the blog – they are not authors? Is there anyway to just add a page if they don’t have gravatars (we dont want them to have access to stats)

  Also, what if I collect an article from a friend and publish it including their name and a photo at the end of the article?

  Thanks again

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  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 2:13 am

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  Yes can create static page and put the information and images that you want to include on it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  For embedding images see the accepted file types here please:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/
  For uploading images posts and pages see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/adding-images-to-posts-or-pages/
  Here are more details about the options for uploading images http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/
  For troubleshooting images see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/