I’m developing a directory style theme using multi-site and each new author needs to be able to upload 5-10 photos to be displayed in their profile page.
Is there any way of doing this? I don’t mind if it’s a plugin as this theme is for a client and not for general release.
You can use this for an author photo: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/
And this one might give you multiple images for the author: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-author-image/
The final approach is to use a gallery plugin of some kind (NexGen Gallery Perhapse?) and create an album for each author, labeling it “John Doe”. Then, call the gallery in the authors.php file and have it get the proper gallery.
Install NextGEN gallery, then install Capability Manager, then go to the Capabilities settings, select the role who’s capabilities you want to edit, and allow them these capabilities
NextGEN Gallery Overview
NextGEN Manage Gallery
NextGEN Edi album
NextGEN Upload images
Now your users of the role you selected can upload their own images into galleries.