1) Login your personal WP blog
2) You will arrive in dashboard
3) On the left hand side, Search for “Appearance”.
4) Click “Appearance” and it should expand to “Themes”, “Customize”, “Widget”……
5) Click “Widget” and you will see something loaded in your dashboard.
6) Look at the center to right and search for “Primary Side Bar” box.
7) Click the small drop down arrow on the right of that box, and it will expand downwards.
8) Identify a box under that showing “Text: Academic Staff Personal Site”.
9) Click the small drop down arrow on that box, and it will expand. This is the box where you must put the url address of the photo you want to upload into your WP blog. Remember this place.
10) Now assuming you have your photos already published inside the WP blog before, search for “Media” on the left side of your dashboard.
11) Click the “Media” and it will expand to “Library”, “Add New”….
12) Click “Library” and all photos that have been uploaded before will be shown there.
13) Click one photo that you want and a new page titled “Attachment Detail” will appear with your photo shown in a bigger size.
14) Look on the right side and search for URL.
15) Copy the URL.
16) Paste the URL in the box at step 9.
17) Then SAVE.
18) Click Refresh button.
19) Your new profile picture should appear now.
Good Luck