yosemite

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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<h3>Support Forum</h3>
http://www.samdevol.com/wp-content/myforums/viewforum.php?id=3

About Me widget

Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.

CrestaProject

Cresta Image In Widget it’s a widget that allows you to simply add an image in a widget, choose the size, choose the border radius, add a link on it and add text under the image.
Some features
<ul>
<li>Add an image in the widget</li>
<li>Choose the image size</li>
<li>Add a border radius at the image</li>
<li>Choose where to show the widget (entire website, only home page, only all posts, etc…)</li>
<li>Add a link on the image</li>
<li>Add text under the image</li>
</ul>
This plugin can be useful if you want to show an “About Me” section in your sidebar, or the logo of your company in your footer, or for any reason you need an image in the widget. 
All features are optional so you can choose what to show in your website and what not!

Cresta Image In Widget

Simple plugin to show an image, photo or logo in a widget with text and link

About Me widget vs Cresta Image In Widget