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!
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Not sure why I don’t know the answer to this but… what is a facebook ID, twitter ID etc?
Hi,
great Plugin. I needed smth like this. Thx for the work.
P.S One question if u dont mind. What plugin do u use to display the post author info at the end of the post?
Best Wishes
Is it possible to include an option not to display the email icon? I don’t want to receive spam emails, so I am using a contact form instead of giving away my email address.
And just one remark: most people are using the vanity URLs in Facebook, so the link to the Facebook profile page is not working. I suggest to ask for the link to the profile page (instead of asking for the profile ID).
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Tina…
1. Email is written by JS so it’s hard to grab it. There is no 100% guarantee but my experiences say it’s safe.
2. As for vanity URLs. We’ll implement this in next version.
Thank you.
Romeo…
Thank you.. This feature is implemented in theme itself. Are you interested in such plugin ?
Hi Csaba,
yeah it will be great to have such plugin. I’ve searched for this one but didn’t find. It will be great if exists such plugin.
Thx
Sorry me again. Im just testing your plugin and i have 2 things.
It will be great that the links opens in new window… a _blank
And second. I use a personal facebook url.. and not a profil ID. .. what should i do.. i cant get connect the plugin with my profil…
Some new Features that u maybe can add.
1. Users be able to resize or set the size of the gravatar coz its too big.
2. Add more than one “About me”, coz i wanna use with plugin to show the site authors and will be nice to show more then myself.
Greats
Hello Romeo,
Facebook URL + gravatar size options will be added to next version. As for more “About me”s I have to think about this if its possible or not. Anyway… I’ll let you now
Hi,
I found a small bug in your plugin.
You need to replace all calls of get_bloginfo(‘url’) with get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’).
When people have their WordPress installation in another location than their main blog url the service icon images will not be shown.
Hi Again,
Found another small bug on line 103 of aboutme3000.php.
In order for Safari to mark the checkboxes as checked you need to change checked to checked=”1″ as checked is not valid XHTML.
Really appreciate your hard work, thanks a lot for the Plugin.
Foind a couple of issues when installing it though.
first of all had a freaky strange line in the main .php file that outputed an image that did’t exist: in Line 55.
But also, shame that the about me text area does not allow HTML.
I appreciate your comments guys. Will try to fix everything in new version as well as try to add new features.
Twitter and feedburner graphics aren’t showing on my template? Is this a bug?
Ok, now the pictures are working, but they overlap. For example, the feedburner icon is overlapping the mail icon, so you cannot see it.
Jillian , please keep it on your site so I can make some tests. Thanx in advance.
Jillian, I know what’s the problem with your theme… there is a global style defined for “img” tag in your template with “padding:5px”.
This causes issues. I’ll fix that in new release.
Csaba, thanks for a great plugin!
Dave, thanks for the updates – I went in and edited the plugin and it’s working great now (I think!)
nice plugin but one question how can i change gavatar to my own picture? thx for reply
Currently only gravatars are supported. Obviously, if you’re bit familiar with PHP you can use your own picture.
But I strongly suggest you to go to http://www.gravatar.com and upload your picture there and get your own gravatar.
Works great, thank you
Great plugin, but I think a doppler link and a flickr link would be nice.
Thank you for including my suggestions!
I’m still having problems with the Facebook link. Even if I had the “Use Vanity URL” checked, the link still points me to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=username
Hmmm, my mistake Tina, will fix that soon and publish update
how about html support for the text area? it would be great! thanks for all your great and altruistic work!
I’ll think about that. Interesting idea. Thanx
Hey, I really appreciate your work and I didn’t through all the comments here, but please consider adding: Tumblr, MySpace, YouTube and maybe LinkedIN
) Thanks!!
I’m facing some problem with the widget About Me 3000
my WordPress is giving this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare widget_aboutme() (previously declared in D:\wamp\www\wordpress-2.8.1-ar\wp-content\plugins\aboutme98\aboutme.php:100) in D:\wamp\www\wordpress-2.8.1-ar\wp-content\plugins\about-me-3000\aboutme3000.php on line 66
Sure it works with WP2.8.2 ?
I eactivated it, configured some options, but the only thing I see in the sidepanel is the ‘about me’ title
The problem has been solved
appaerantly it does work, but the ‘about me’ title is in the sidebar just where it should be
The avatar and links are complete at the bottom of the page, so you don’t see it unless you completely scroll down to the end.
using WP 2.8.2
http://eerdekens.com/blog
nevermind, it works using another theme
Great plugin – it pulls together a few nice features. Two additions would be nice to see: the ability to determine the order of the icons as presented and adding additional links – linkedin, in particular… but there are so many, I know. Thanks!
I am having the same issue as Steven above. I think it might have something to do with the CSS in my theme, just like Steven mentioned. I really don’t want to change my theme just yet, I am happy using the minimalist theme. Is there a hotfix for this? Please see my blog at http://www.surskeeg.com
Thank you in advance.
Here is the code that shows up for the widget:
About Me
.aboutme {clear:both}
.aboutme * {border: 0px solid;}
.aboutme img {padding:0px;}
I am 37 year old Entrepreneur working from home and raising my two kids, a 3 year old and a 1 year old. I started this blog to help me and others raising children that may be geeky!
<!–
var string1 = "robe1221";
var string2 = "@";
var string3 = "yahoo.com";
var string4 = string1 + string2 + string3;
document.write("“);
document.write(“”);
document.write(““);
//–>
and, if I remove the following lines:
.aboutme {clear:both}
.aboutme * {border: 0px solid;}
.aboutme img {padding:0px;}
** and it’s asssociated closing tag
It looks fine on my website.
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance
Also, how did you get the readers feedburner stat on your about me widget? I don’t see that anywhere in the settings
I made a comment about using the widget on my blog, doesn’t look like it made it. But my issue is that the title is shown in the correct spot but my photo and text are shown way down at the bottom.
If I remove the block and one of the blocks around the photo and text, it appears to display correctly. I am using the minimalist theme for wordpress and my blog is located at the URL I have listed above.
Thank you for looking into this
Appreciate the plug-in greatly. Would like to add my add my vote for LinkedIn and YouTube.
I’ll implement Youtube + LinkedIn in next version
Linkedin is pretty much essential these days. Include this and you will have a great offering. Thanks for the work.
Any luck on debugging in the layout issue I am having?
Robert.. I can fix that but need your help. You have to enable plugin so I can test what’s the issue.
BTW: There is new version available with LinkedIn + Youtube + MySpace implemented
I upgraded and enabled the widget on my blog at http://www.surskeeg.com
I cannot see it active on your site. I sent you an email.
How does the gravtar photo image get put into the widget? I see how to activate the gravatar but it’s the default image, not an image I want to use.
Thank you so much for this plugin. I just downloaded it today and am enjoying getting to know what it will do. Is it possible to connect with your Facebook Page instead of Profile? I have tried that url but doesn’t seem to work. If this is not something that is possible now — can I add it to the wish list? Thanks again.
Dave… Gravatar is based on your email address you entered. You have to go to gravatar.com and associate (upload image) image with your email address
Susan… Its impossible. If you’re familiar with PHP a bit you can make modification yourself.
Thanks, Csaba. I had the e-mail address in gravatar.com but I didn’t realize on your plugin, the address was case-sensitive. It works now.
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
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