jamqes

Lightweight widget shortcodes to display GitHub buttons and gists on your blog. Includes shortcode for embedding GitHub hosted gists and buttons for:
<ul>
<li>Follow</li>
<li>Watch</li>
<li>Star</li>
<li>Fork</li>
<li>Download</li>
<li>Issue</li>
</ul>
The plugin implements <a href="https://github.com/ntkme/github-buttons" rel="nofollow ugc">ntkme’s ‘github-buttons’</a> and GitHub’s gist display as shortcodes.
<h3>Usage</h3>
GitHub Follow Button: 
Add the <code>[Github_User_Button user='JBarnden' size='large' show_count='true']</code> shortcode in your content and replace <code>JBarnden</code> with the desired GitHub username.
GitHub Repo Buttons: 
Add the <code>[Github_Repo_Button user='JBarnden' repo='wp-github-widgets' size='large' show_count='true']</code> shortcode in your content, replacing <code>JBarnden</code> with the desired GitHub username and <code>MyRepo</code> with the desired repo belonging to the specified user. 
You can set the<code>type</code> attribtute to <code>watch</code>, <code>star</code>, <code>fork</code>, <code>issue</code> or <code>download</code>.
Display Gist: 
Add the <code>[Gist]gist_id[/Gist]</code> where <code>gist_id</code> is replaced with the id of the desired Gist.
More detailed documentation can be found <a href="https://github.com/JBarnden/wp-github-widgets#usage" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. If you find the plugin useful or have any feedback I’d really appreciate your review.
<h3>Feature Requests and Contributions</h3>
Please submit feature requests and contributions via the issues section of <a href="https://github.com/JBarnden/wp-github-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin’s GitHub Repository</a>. 
If you feel like improving the plugin, pull requests are both welcome and appreciated.

Widget Shortcodes for Github

Lightweight widget shortcodes to display GitHub buttons and gists on your blog.

dflydev

This project is available for forking on GitHub:
<ul>
<li>https://github.com/dflydev/embed-github-gist</li>
</ul>
Embed <a href="http://github.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> <a href="http://gist.github.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Gists</a> into 
WordPress. Provides a shortcode for posts and pages but also has the ability 
to embed by hand in the event that a Gist needs to be embedded somewhere in 
the page that does not pass through the shortcode filters.
Examples:
<pre><code>[gist id=546764]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt bump=1]
[gist]http://gist.github.com/546764[/gist]
</code></pre>
Cache is implemented with the Transients API to minimize delay on loading 
content. Default TTL (time to live) is 86400 seconds or one day.
<h4>Upcoming features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option for setting default TTL</li>
<li>Option to bypass cache entirely</li>
<li>Implement admin interface to control options</li>
</ul>

Widget Shortcodes for Github vs Embed GitHub Gist