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Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ‘seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me” to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget might be nice for this. Et voila. This was my first-ever widget, so I appreciate your patience ;’)
Now, with over 8000 downloads I am releasing what I hope to be a more friendly widget. The biggest issues previously were related to path(s), layout and alignment. This left me wanting to re-design the configuration interface, keeping in mind a lot of users know little about HTML/CSS and validity issues, yet allowing the geekier to get into details/code if so desired.
After a lot of hours designing, testing and uttering quite a few curses, my head finally popped out of my sphincter and I decided to use what WordPress uses: TinyMCE. WordPress users are at least somewhat familiar with it, it’s already ‘built-in’ (no extra libraries/scripts) and I soon discovered it was easily configurable. Actually it’s easily configurable AFTER you’ve learned how. Before, it’s a bitch.
So here it is. The New King Hell Deluxe About Me Widget Supreme (ymmv)
!!Note!! 
This version is not backwards compatible with versions of wordpress older than 3.1 
If you are upgrading to version 2.0 from an older version be sure to copy the old about me text out before upgrading, as the new API creates new values for the title and text in the wordpress database.
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About Me widget

Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.

Andreas Hecht

Easy to use “About me” profile widget with several settings, which is using your Author Bio, Description and Author Gravatar. You can also link to your “About me” page.
Gravatar can have alignment right, left and none. See Screenshots for more information. The Gravatar can have four different sizes: 45, 65, 85 and 125px.
Alignment none plus Gravatar 125px will center the Gravatar and makes him round. CSS is tested on Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Fourteen and some other Themes.

AH About Widget

Easy to use "About me" profile widget with several settings, which is using your Author Bio, Description and Author Gravatar.

About Me widget vs AH About Widget