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Your author profile

What readers see on your public page, and how to edit it from the dashboard.

Your public author page

Every author has a public page on the blog at valeon.blog/authors/{your-slug}. The page shows:

  • Your avatar, name, and bio.
  • Links to your website and social profiles (X, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Instagram).
  • A list of your external publications — books, papers, talks, projects — each with a title, year, and link.
  • A paginated list of every post you’ve published.
  • An RSS subscribe button — readers can follow just your posts via /authors/{your-slug}/rss.xml.

Where to edit it

In the dashboard, open Settings and switch to the Profile tab. Everything that appears on your public page is editable here.

Avatar, name, and bio

  • Avatar — upload a square image (PNG, JPG, or WebP). The image is stored in your media library.
  • Display name — what shows above every post you write. Up to 80 characters. Change it anytime.
  • Bio — a short description, up to 2000 characters. Shown on your author page and in the byline footer of your posts.

The locked slug

Your author slug — the URL-friendly version of your name in /authors/{your-slug} — is set when your account is created and cannot be changed afterwards.

Why the slug is locked

Changing your slug would change your public author URL, break every existing link to it (search engines, social shares, other posts that cite you), and orphan your per-author RSS feed. If your slug is genuinely wrong, ask an admin — but expect it to be rare.

Website and social links

Add the full URL for each social profile you want to show. Leave a field blank to hide that link from your author page. Supported:

  • Website
  • X (Twitter)
  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
  • Bluesky
  • Instagram

External publications

Publications are works you’ve done elsewhere — books, papers, talks, podcasts, courses — that you want to surface from your author page. They’re separate from the posts you write on Valeon.

Each publication has:

  • A title (required).
  • An optional subtitle.
  • A URL pointing at the work.
  • An optional year.
  • An optional cover image, picked from your media library.

You can list up to 25 publications. Reorder them as needed — the order on the page matches the order in the editor.

Contact and your inbox

Your author page doesn’t expose your email address directly, but every author has an @valeon.blog address readers can write to. Manage that address — and whether incoming mail is forwarded to your personal email — from Email mailbox. Read what arrives in your inbox.

Saving changes

The profile editor batches every edit you make. Click Save changes at the bottom to commit them all in one go. Changes go live on the public page within a few seconds.