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.

ThomasHambach

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Currently supports: * Showing a whole gist. * Showing single file in a gist. * Showing certain lines of a single file in a gist.

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