yosemite

<p>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 ;’)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So here it is. The New King Hell Deluxe About Me Widget Supreme (ymmv)</p>
<p>!!Note!!<br />
This version is not backwards compatible with versions of wordpress older than 3.1<br />
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.</p>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>http://samdevol.com/about-me-widget-for-wordpress/</p>
<h3>Support Forum</h3>
<p>http://www.samdevol.com/wp-content/myforums/viewforum.php?id=3</p>


About Me widget

Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.

kengimel

<p>This plugin provides simple author bio box to give visitors to your website a quick/brief information on the author background.</p>
<p>This plugin is an extract from <a href="http://globalfoodbook.com" rel="nofollow ugc">globalfoodbook.com</a> and is contributed back as open-source material (available free of charge).</p>
<p>This plugin is built to help other site owners who require this author bio tool with flexible configurable options.</p>
<p>It is implemented to allow easy setup and customization of a blog’s author bio sidebar widget.</p>
<p>It is best used with food and cook recipe theme made with woo-themes.</p>
<h3>Notes to developers</h3>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>If you would like to contribute to our suite of plugins, head on over to <a href="https://github.com/globalfoodbook" rel="nofollow ugc">Global Food Book Labs</a>. Feel free to fork and contribute back.</p>
<ol>
<li>Fork it (https://github.com/globalfoodbook/gfb_author_bio)</li>
<li>Create your feature branch (<code>git checkout -b my-new-feature</code>)</li>
<li>Commit your changes (<code>git commit -am 'Add some feature'</code>)</li>
<li>Push to the branch (<code>git push origin my-new-feature</code>)</li>
<li>Create a new Pull Request</li>
</ol>
<h4>Adding Screenshots to the wordpress repo</h4>
<ol>
<li>Rename each screenshot for each step like this. For step 1 the screenshot is screenshot-1.png.</li>
<li>The banner image is named as banner-772×250.png.</li>
<li>Use an SVN client like smart svn or rapid svn etc to uploads these images to the /assets folder.</li>
<li>After this commit and all will be picked up.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Pushing plugin to wordpress svn repo</h4>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Clone this repo</p>
<pre><code>      git clone git@github.com:globalfoodbook/gfb-author-bio-widget.git
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>cd path/to/gfb-author-bio-widget</p>
</li>
<li>vim .git/config</li>
<li>
<p>Add the code below:</p>
<pre><code>  [svn-remote "svn"]
          url = https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/[plugin_name]/trunk
          fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>Then merge the master into the new branch:</p>
<pre><code>      git svn fetch svn
      git checkout -b svn git-svn
      git merge master
      git svn dcommit --username [wordpress.org username]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>Then rebase that branch to the master, and you can dcommit from the master to svn</p>
<pre><code>      git checkout master
      git rebase svn
      git branch -d svn
      git svn dcommit --username [wordpress.org username]
</code></pre>
</li>
</ol>


Global Food Book's Author Biography Widget

This makes it easy to setup a brief synopsis of the author's biography on the sidebar. Best used in food & cook theme or woo-themes.

About Me widget vs Global Food Book's Author Biography Widget