Stargazer

<p>WP-Headlineanimator is a Plugin for WordPress. It generates an animated GIF File to be displayed in signatures or wherever you like to advertise for your Blog.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress >= 2.9</li>
<li>some time</li>
<li>Access to your webserver</li>
<li>A background picture for your signature</li>
<li>A Font file (ttf)</li>
<li>PHP with GDlib support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>As a forum signature can be called <em>very_often</em>, it is pointless generating the picture from scratch via PHP</li>
<li>The gif image is updated everytime you WRITE, DELETE or MODIFY a post.</li>
<li>The Plugin is qTranslate-Compatible (this is a plugin for multilingual blogs)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Turkish (thanks to MysD)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to see this plugin in your language, feel free to contact me or use <a href="https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/wpha/resource/plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">transifex.net</a> to contribute.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://my.stargazer.at/" title="Authors blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.stargazer.at/" title="Bugtracker" rel="nofollow ugc">Bugtracker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ToeiRei" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>The configuration takes place in the administrative backend on<br />
 Options -> WP-HeadlineAnimator. The options are kept to a minimum to keep it<br />
 simple and intuitive. Basic options here:</p>
<p>Background image:   This text field requires the path to your HeadlineAnimator<br />
            Background picture relative to your WordPress installation.<br />
            If the picture is not accessible, the label is shown in red</p>
<p>Font file:      This text field requires the <em>absolute</em> path to a font<br />
            file (ttf) on your server. It is used to write text on the<br />
            Background image. If the fomt file is not accessible,<br />
            the label is shown in red</p>
<p>Target:         This is the path where your image should be written to;<br />
            relative to your WordPress Installation</p>
<p>Text on Picture:    Text entered here is shown on the Animator.</p>
<p>Text Color:         Enter a color here in Hex format (#ffffff is white). This<br />
            color will be used for the text on the picture.</p>
<p>Show date on animator:  If you want your headlines to be prefixed with a date,<br />
            check this box.</p>
<p>Date format:        This is direct access to the PHP date() function used<br />
            to display the date prefix of your headlines.</p>
<p>If you got things right, “HTML Code for your Animator” is shown including your<br />
animator.</p>
<h3>Bugs</h3>
<ul>
<li>no error handler on if output file is not writeable</li>
</ul>


WP-HeadlineAnimator

WP-Headlineanimator generates an animated GIF File to be displayed in signatures or wherever you like to advertise for your Blog.

DigitalTweaker

<p>** No Longer Supported **<br />
DT Author Box is great for those who have multiple authors on a WordPress site and want to show author information at the bottom of every post for each author like a signature. This can include an image, a short bio, a link to the author’s website and their social profiles.</p>
<h4>Social Profiles Added</h4>
<ul>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>LinkedIn</li>
<li>Google+</li>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>German</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Italian – Thanks to Marco Pegoraro for accurate translation</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
</ul>
<p>Language translation may not be exact, Google Translate was used. If you find any errors, please let me know.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitaltweaker.com/web/wordpress/2012/04/digital-tweakers-author-box-plugin-for-wordpress/" title="DT Author Box Plugin Home Page" rel="nofollow ugc">DT Author Box Plugin Homepage</a></p>


DT Author Box

Easily add an author box bio signature with custom profile image and social profile buttons to the end of each author's posts

WP-HeadlineAnimator vs DT Author Box