Today, we released initial version of About Me 3000 widget for Wordpress. What is this all about ?
This widget shows general information about you.
Add your email and small description, and your gravatar will be shown next to the summary. You can also show icons (URLs) of your social network accounts.
Currently, the following social networks are supported:
* Facebook
* Friendfeed
* Delicious
* Technorati
* Twitter
You can even add your Feedburner ID, and the plugin will show the number of subscribers, next to a standard Feedburner image.
You can download it here. Obviously, it’s absolutely free!
August 8, 2009
Csaba, thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I am a soapmaker who’s just trying to keep her head above water with her own blog and website. I know no PHP at all. I appreciate what you’ve done and will just go with that.
I did have another question. I am unable to get my subscriber stat numbers to show for some reason. The RSS link works fine so am not sure why the subscriber # image isn’t showing. I use FireFox and it just shows white space. In IE7 and IE8 it is showing that “unable to load image icon” (the little square with the x in it.) Is there something else I need to be doing to get it to show? When I go to my Feedburner page I see the stats there so am assuming all is enabled correctly.
Thanks for your assistance with this.
Susan
August 15, 2009
Hi!
I like to have this plugin on my page.
But i want to put it in a single page.
Is this possible?
I want to have it in the contact page at my site.
Thank you for any ansers…
Jimmy aka. Vincent Angeldust
August 15, 2009
Hi again Csaba!
As I told you before,
I want it on a single page,
not as a widget in the sidebar.
But you probably understod that already.
August 15, 2009
I am very impressed with your site. The quality of the design and content makes it a real winner! Thanks again for a great site and a great resource.
August 16, 2009
Dear Csasba,
as the others sayed: Great Plugin. I´ve implement it on my Page and it´s doing well. No issues at all, just two wishes:
1. open Links in new Window
2. Chance of 2nd Install (We are two Authors with different Profiles on Twitter etc.)
If you can give me a hint, I´m a little bit familiar with php
Regards from Berlin, Germany
August 27, 2009
I like your social media sharing links, can i download a plugin for that from your site?
August 28, 2009
Hi,
I was wondering if there is the possibility of linking to a company profile on linkedin. The current http://www.linkedin/in url doesn’t seem to work with the linkedin company url
Aaron.
September 6, 2009
hi, thanks for your plugin, i have a question, my wordpress theme do not support the widget, so can you tell us how to add a code to the theme file,
September 8, 2009
Hi there,
This plug-in is great. Thank you for making it!
I have one concern: When I first installed it, my gravatar image showed up but now it will not show, regardless of if I have the option to show it enabled or not.
Also, I second Andy’s request for an option to open links in new windows, and if possible would also like to see html tagging enabled so I can tweak my text inside the text box (like italics, bold, line breaks, etc.). And lastly I think it would be awesome to have either a link to the user’s ABOUT page from this widget, and/or to have the option to pull text directly from the user’s ABOUT page so they don’t have to update both.
Thanks!
September 8, 2009
Ah ~ I figured out the problem with the gravatar – I changed my email in the settings and it messed with the image.
Please consider my other suggestions!
Looking forward to new improvements.
TMF
October 1, 2009
I’m sure this has been asked, but I can’t seem to find any good info on it. I’d like to edit your plugin to ad other social sites. It looks intuitive, but I can’t get it to work. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.
Example of what I’m doing. I edit your aboutme3000.php file. I add “Posterous” Titles array, and insert “YourID.posterous.com” in the corresponding spot in the URLs array.
The option “Posterous” does show up in the Settings page, but it’s missing the favicon (I know, I need to manually put one on my server), but otherwise, it looks like the others. I enter my ID, click save. When I view the active plugin, it shows an empty space where the missing favicon would be, but it’s using the wrong URL (in my example, it’s using YourID.stumbleupon.com.
Any info would be appreciated!
October 4, 2009
Hello and thanks for the nice work.
I can’t quite get my gravatar to load instead of the std pic.
When I compare the URL’s there seems to be a “?s=80″ at the end … if I remove that then the right gravatar loads …
Am I doing something wrong ? how can I edit the URL called for the Gravatar or how can I get my gravatar URL to match the one called by the widget ?
Thanks in advance,
JPh
October 4, 2009
Maybe it can help with the URL see blog under construction at:
http://theripplehub.com/blog
You can see the About me plugin with the std avatar… right click on the pic and remove the ?s=80 at the end of the Url to load the correct avatar… does this help?
Cheers,
JPh
October 12, 2009
How do I add this to a page and not the sidebar?
October 14, 2009
Great plugin, thank you!
Also, thank you for making it so easy to add other social networks! I added Flickr, and all I had to do was add the word “Flickr” and an example URL, and the .png image. Very slick!
I used the flickr icon from here, if you want to add it to your plugin: http://icons-search.com/IconDetails.aspx?IconID=19186
October 15, 2009
There is a small bug (typo?) on line 57 in aboutme3000.php, makes the email.png not showing in the widget.
When requesting the blog url: , you need to make it request the install dir:
October 30, 2009
Am I missing something, or is there a way to make the social icons list horizontally instead of vertically? I’m running WordPress 2.8.5 with the Bold theme from Elegant Themes, and the icons appear underneath the About Me text vertically, breaking through down the sidebar into other widgets.
November 4, 2009
Hi, just passing by to thank you for this pluggin, I’m currently using (twitter/linkedin) it in my blog http://www.logisticadescomplicada.com and it’s perfect!
Cheers!
November 9, 2009
Great work for this Widget!
Have to add any other icons options ?
- orkut profile
- google profile
- google reader
- picasa webalbuns
- user linux count
Tks !
November 16, 2009
I really like this plug-in but I am having a problem with it. You can view it on my homepage… you have to scroll down to mid – page.
I can’t seem to get the plugin to run horizontally in my sidebar and fill up the width of it. Instead it is running vertically and only filling up my sidebar half way.
When I try to place it at the top of my sidebar, it still only fills the sidebar half way with a blank space next to it and on some pages it causes the entire contents of my sidebar to shift all the way to the right side of my site.
Help!
I know that this problem might also have to do with my theme. I have contacted it’s author also.
Please offer any help you can.
thanks
November 19, 2009
I wonder if this plugin can be implemented on a regular site which is not Wordpress. Any advice is highly appreciated.
January 7, 2010
Hey great widget man, will be checking this out right after I post this comment.
thanks
January 26, 2010
I love your plugn, but unfortunately, the font is too big for my theme and it runs out of the sidebar. Tried putting in html styling but it is stripped out. Tried creating a class in my css but that is also stripped out. Not really familiar with php, but had a look at your code and don’t see anywhere these settings can be changed. Any way to do so? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
February 12, 2010
Hello,
I really like your About Me 3000 plugin.
Can I make a feature request?
If so, (hehe) I’d like to be able to specify a URL that the user will be taken to if they click “About Me” or my gravatar picture.
I’ll pay $10 for the feature. Just send me a paypal account.
Thanks!
–Nate
February 13, 2010
Hi,
I would like to create a hyperlink in the text field so that it takes the viewers to an About me page which is excluded from the Nav Bar.
I tried adding a html code to the “Read More..” link…but it does not work…How to sort this out.
February 25, 2010
Any chance you’d be willing to update this plugin? The feedburner badge appears to be broken and it could use more service links like MobileMe, Tumblr, Posterous, Google Buzz, Brightkite, etc.
Thanks for any help, and I’m willing to donate if it helps, but I can’t find a link.
March 9, 2010
nice work!
but the email icon source description in the aboutme3000.php should be “” instead of “” to prevent those two urls are different.
March 31, 2010
Long-time user, nice work.
Plans to add the location-based site’s & their icons? (Foursquare?)
Thx!
June 2, 2010
Under the plugin settings, About You field, I can’t put in a link. When I update options, the link is removed. Any ideas?
June 30, 2010
Hi, I really like your plug in, it’s just what I was looking for.
I am not sure if this is a silly question but how can I get my picture in there?
Here’s the link to my website and what you can see is the default Gravatar.
http://www.qualityuno.com
Thanks again.
July 6, 2010
Hey-
Great work. A few comments:
1) Would be lovely to be able to include HTML in the ‘bio’ section
2) every few times i try to go to the admin page, i get a “you do not have sufficient permissions’ error. I’m using WP3.0
Thanks!
-Jeremy
July 28, 2010
I must say, I really like this plugin. However, I agree with some of the previous commentors, it would be great if we could put in our ‘company’ or ‘blog’ Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. accounts. If we try to add those the links don’t work. I would also love to see more social networks and the ability to link to the picture and a read more link that we can specify. This way we can use this to allow the user to continue to our about page. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!