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About Me widget for WordPress
Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ’seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me’ to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget might be nice for this. I had not seen anything like this around, so here it is, my first widget.
“*Fixed in 0.96: Align didn’t work in some themes.”
Here are some installation instructions:
- Click the download link below to get the latest version
- Drop the AboutMe folder into your wp-content/plugins folder
- Go to your Administration:Plugins page and activate the About Me Widget
To configure:
- Go to Presentation:Widgets
- Move (drag and drop) the widget to where you would like it in your active sidebar
- Click on the config button for the About Me widget (little notepad icon thingy on the right)
- Enter the title you want visitors to see on the sidebar
- Click in the editor window and start designing your own widget!!!
Put together a generic ‘about me’ design:
- Select the image icon above the editor (looks like a tree)
- Enter the URL (path) to the image (relative is fine, e.g.; /wp-content/uploads/portrait.jpg)
- Enter Image Description, Title
- Select the appearance tab and use the pull-down menu to apply an alignment class
- Click the Update button
- Back in the editor now, type some text (a blurb about yourself or your site)
- Hi-lite the text and use the pull-down styles menu to apply alignment class/style
- Add some links, if you wish, then repeat #7 to the link/anchor text
- Close the config window when you’re finished and hit the Save Changes button
Here is version 1.04: About Me Widget *
*Fixed in v0.91: Cannot select left or right alignment. *Added: Configurable titles for image and links. Thanks Steen.
*Fixed in v0.92: Image ‘alt’ and ‘title’ attributes working now.
*Changed in v0.93: “blurb” respects newlines. Thanks Andy Skelton.
*Fixed in 0.94: Overlapping text issue with default admin theme. Thanks Aaron Brazell. *Added: Configurable font color.
*Added in 0.95: Function getimagesize() added to maintain xhtml validity and page speed.
*Fixed in 0.96: Align didn’t work in some themes. Thanks JR Rozko.
*Fixed in 0.97: Took out the clear that was breaking some themes/sidebars.
*Fixed in 0.98: A solution for people on Dreamhost (and others with hosts using safe_mode/curl). This solution does not use a curl wrapper, but falls back to a relative path. It will require the user to place the image in /wp-content/uploads/. Thanks to Martin Cleaver who generously gave me a temp site at Dreamhost for testing!
*Re-design for 1.0beta: Uses WordPress’ built-in TinyMCE editor for layout/design, produces valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (though this can be broken ;’), designed and tested in WordPress 2.2.1.
*Fixed in 1.01: Bad path to the Image plugin (gave a 404-Not Found), dialed in lineheight - 09/02/07
*Fixed in 1.02: If auto-installed from wordpress.org, TinyMCE would have no buttons (plugin directory name no longer hard-coded). Thanks to guybrush - 09/14/07
-1.03: Sync’ing with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about-me-widget/
-1.04: ditto above
New -> Support forum for About Me Widget
Previous non-TinyMCE version (stable): About Me Widget v0.98
As of 11/16/07 there have been over 14,300 downloads of the About Me Widget. wow.
Feedback appreciated!
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173 Users Commented on " About Me widget for WordPress "
Hi, nice widget! However, a few bugs:
* The text-algnment automatically changes to ‘center’ no matter what I type
* The image has a fixed title ‘Sam portrait’
* Perhaps ‘Work background’ isn’t the best choice for all people, perhaps simply ‘More’ would be better
I know I can hack the aboutme.php, but I’d just let you know.
Anyway, I like the widget, and had in fact been searching for one the last few days. Great timing 
Steen: Thanks! I took a look at the text-alignment, found the bug and realized it was hiding another ;') 2 bugs for one! ok, taking my pill now…. The 'fixed' or hard-coded titles issues is a great point, I need to Add that to the config section so the user can name them. This is something I will address in the morning (and a lot easier then sniffing out image dimensions ;') EDIT: Fixed text-alignment issue and added image and link title configuration in v0.9.
Andy Skelton says,Hi Sam,
This widget looks like a good idea to me! There is something out of balance in the interface though. Most of the widget audience might not know enough HTML to do a <br /> after every line. I’d suggest converting line breaks. You can use the wpautop function or roll your own.
Cheers!
In Response to: "[…] It’s important that you identify yourself to your visitors. The About Me widget from Sam Devol helps you to identify yourself in style. No HTML knowledge required! […]": Nice plugin. Yet I don't feel there's a need to identify. It depends on the blog philosophy. IMHO
Appears to be broken in Firefox 1.5. Text is overlapping the fields making it impossible to know what to type and where.
Aaron: It’s not Firefox, it’s ME (actually it was my ’style’)!
Anyway, fixed in .94 ;’) Thanks Aaron.
I had the same problem as Aaron, then downloaded the .94 version. A lot better - the text doesn’t overlap the fields anymore. However, all the text is too far left, so it doesn’t all show on the screen now.
Thanks for this plugin!
Keiran: Fixed without version change. Let me know if you see any problems… Thanks!
Just wondering if there is a way to align the image to the right or center.
Thanks
JR: Alignment works with most themes, but let me make a change so that it will work with any theme. Check back today for v0.96…
EDIT: Ok, posted 0.96, should be ok now.
awesome - thanks!
Greekstories says,Hi,
I downloaded and installed the Aboutme Widget. I put in it in the folder plugins/widgets.
Then I chose a widget-enabled template and tried to configure the whole. BUT there is no configuration button for the Aboutme widget. What is wrong?
Serge Norguard says,Hey there Sam,
Thanks for the tip on editting the font size settings on your widget.
Greekstories says,Hi again,
I know that my current theme does not support widgets. I tries your widget with another theme that supports widgets and it doesn’t work for me the problem being what I mentioned in my previous port. Any clues?
Where do I get a widget enable template?
You can find some widget enabled themes here: The theme viewer.
“To configure: 1. Go to Admin Presentation:Sidebar Widgets and click on the config button.”
Okay, new weird issue: I placed the php in my plugins folder and activated it in Admin: Plugins–but I still don’t see a “config button” or in fact *anything* under the Presentation tab–? Do I need to add a line of code into the Sidebar php file, and then change my css as well? Help! And thanks for a cool-looking bit o’ code. :o)
Oh wait… forgot to install widget stuff from WP. Neeeever miiiiiind. must be late here! ;oP
Sam,
I love your “About me” widget. It may be the single best about me widget I have come across for Wordpress, especially in its’ simplicity.
Quick Question regarding Opera and the widget; I opened up my blog in the Opera Browser, for the first time, and saw that Opera splits the “about me widget” for some reason right after the photo and caused my whole sidebar to drop down to the end of the page. I can’t seem to see anything that would cause that, but I am not a great coder. If you have Opera, and wouldn’t mind, would you check it out and let me know if you think it’s the widget or my own web site problem.
Thanks,
Joe
Not sure why it’s whacky in your theme, but this fixes it:
Open aboutme.php in a text editor and go to line 105. It looks like this: I’ll try some more testing when I get a chance, see if I can replicate this…
echo '
Sam,
I edited the code and it worked. Thank you very much for your time and troubleshooting expertise! It is greatly appreciated.
Joe
Great plugin, Sam! Is there anyway I can adjust the font size though? When I used it, the text in that widget was smaller than the rest of the text on my sidebar.
Thanks!
Zach: If you open aboutme.php in a text editor and scroll down, about 5 or 6 lines before the end of the file are several echo statements. The text-related ones all contain font-size: 0.8em by default.
Just change 0.8em to whatever you like.
Your plugin is great. Good thing someone had created it. Thanks a lot…
However, I seem to have a problem aligning them with the rest in my sidebar. I have tried changing paddings in my style sheet, but it won’t work. Any idea what might cause this? Is it with the layout?
thanks for the help
Wrhona
(Edit by Sam: Contacted Wrhona by email for more info…)
I installed the widget and got it configured, but it made my sidebar all screwy! Not sure exactly what the problem was, but I figured out that deleting the folowing code from the php file fixed it:
style="clear:both;display:block;color: '.$fontcolor.';margin: 0 0 1em 0;font-size: 0.8em;font-weight: normal;line-height: 125%;text-align:'.$alignall.';"
It’s in there defining the li style after the image.
Hope that makes sense… Probably just a conflict with my theme.
The alignment issues some are experiencing will be addressed in the next release. For the moment, you can open aboutme.php and delete clear:both; (It is the only ‘clear:both;’ reference, so don’t worry, you can’t delete the ‘wrong’ one ;’)
Hi Sam,
Great Widget…but am having one issue. Really lame but I can’t get the photo to upload. Not sure if I put the photo in the wrong directory.
I created an “uploads” directory under public_html/wp-content/ and saved the brendan.jpg photo there.
When I put in the image URL into the about me widget, I put in
hxxp://digitalphocus.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/brendan.jpg
and get the view that see on digitalphocus.com
am i missing something?
Thanks!
brendan: The correct path would be /wp-content/uploads/Brendan.JPG (drop the public_html) . Note the caps too, paths are case-sensitive.
You might want to shrink that image as well, it’s currently 800 x 1200 (and 237kb). You want it about 80 x 120…
Hi Sam,
I’ve put in http://digitalphocus/wp-content/uploads/Brendan.JPG
I keep getting
getimagesize(http://digitalphocus/wp-content/uploads/Brendan.JPG) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/digimon3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/widgets/aboutme.php on line 35
Is this just b/c I’m trying to upload too big an image?
Or it may be that your server is running PHP in safe_mode. (See notes above re: cURL)
Note that you are missing the ‘.com’ in your domain name…
Hi Sam,
That got it. Leaving out the “.com” was my problem. Now, I just have to shrink that photo and I’m golden.
Thanks so much.
I really like this widget. I haven’t yet been able to configure it completely to my liking- but I’m looking forward to playing around with it more. Thanks for sharing this!
I’d like to use it, but I keep getting an error and it will not show the images.
Warning: getimagesize
ailed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /wp-content/plugins/widgets/aboutme.php on line 35
rori: I believe that’s because your host is running PHP in safe_mode and wants a cURL ‘wrapper’. I have a fix in testing… Thanks for your patience.
PS Feel free to test the alpha at the link at the end of the article, and let me know how it works for you.
HI Sam,
Well, I got the photo up and running but i’ve got these “>>” in the box. Anything I can do to eliminate these?
Thanks!
Also, not sure if I can increase the font size for the verbage around the photo?
Thanks.
Brendan: That may be part of your themes styling for lists. If you send me a link (or post it here) I’ll take a look…
Font size is set in the aboutme.php file. Look near the bottom (lines 105, 106 and 107) and you’ll see a reference to font-size: 0.8em;. Change that to 0.85em, 0.9em or whatever floats your boat ;’)
Is this what you’re looking for: digitalphocus.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/bosco/style.css
I was wondering if this plugin worked with the default kubrick theme and if so, how do i get it to work properly. thanks in advance.
Hi Ian: Neither the ‘default’ (Kubrick) or ‘classic’ themes that come with WordPress have widget support, so they won’t work with my widget…
Thank you for the response, i appreciate the quick reply.
hey sam - thanks heaps for the widget - it’s looking great and working great…except for IE - for some reason when i open my page in IE version 6 the picture doesn’t show up - it looks super nice in firefox though!
any thoughts?
Barbara: Hope you got my email.
Seems like you might have a host with safe_mode on, so the plugin can’t get the image dimensions (and IE isn’t handling that gracefully).
NOTE: Fixed in 0.98, download from link above…
Hello, I had been using your widget v. 0.97 for a couple months when I encountered a problem then I read all these comments and tried v.0.98 alpha but I’m still having the same problem.
I have configured the widget with alignment “center” and it loads the appropriate imgalign styling “display:block;margin:5px auto 0 auto;”.
I now want to change the alignment so I had changed line 52 to look like this:
elseif ($alignall == “center”) {$imgalign = ‘border:1px solid #000;display:block;margin:5px -5px 0 -5px;’;}
My browser didn’t seem to be picking up the change for a long time no matter my clearing cookies, cache, ctrl+F5, etc. After about an hour or two it started to load this change.
I then changed the margin again but it took hours. I tried clearing browser cache, tried different browser engine, different browser altogether. and finally different computer. It is obvious that it’s not browser.
Where is wordpress/about-me keeping this style? cache? I searched everythign, found no cache on my web account. I even disabled cache in wp-config.php. still nothing.
where oh where is aboutme grabbing this old margin setting from?
right now i have line 52 looking this way
elseif ($alignall == “center”) {$imgalign = ‘border:1px solid #000;display:block;margin:5px auto 0 auto;’;}
but aboutme still just using
display:block;margin:5px auto 0 auto;
-Tania
Hi Tania, those settings are stored in the database under wp_options.
The line you’re changing is part of the function widget_aboutme_control() which is only run when you open the widget’s config panel/window and then do a save.
If you edit that line in the file and save the file back to the server the change won’t be recognized (because it’s part of the config interface ‘operation’). If you want immediate results, edit the last `echo` lines near the end of the file. That is the function widget_aboutme that is executed each time the page loads.
Hope that helps.
Sam thanks for replying so quickly. I suspected the database and searched wp_options last night but didnt’ find anything.. I must have overlooked it.
Anyway, I think i’ll just update the lines at the bottom like you said.
btw, your plugin is great.
if you don’t mind, what plugin / addon is it that creates the instant preview as I’m typing?
thanks!
-Tania
You’re welcome Tania. Sorry it was so frustrating ;’)
In wp_options it is called: widget_aboutme
And the plugin is Live Comment Preview…
Good luck!
Sam, Thanks for the info..
I wish I could say mystery solved, but I’m still seeing something odd and I hope you can shed some light. In aboutme.php I changed “auto” in the margin property to a number, and moved it to the “‘;
Wordpress was still pulling the old info from the wp-options table even after changing the orientation in the widget options from center to left and back. So I deleted that line from the table, and then readded my info into the widget options, saved it, but again, wordpress is pulling “margin: 5px auto 0 auto” from somewhere.
I checked the record from the wp-options table and again, it was there. I don’t know where the widget is getting this setting from. I’ve grep’d the aboutme.php file and it does not say “auto” in any of the margin properties.
In fact, $imgalign is not even in the “” line anymore as you can see in my copy&paste above.
So this must be somewhere else in the database? where?
woops… my code got stripped. I meant to say I moved “margin: …” to line 104
... img style="display: block;border: 1px solid #000; margin: 2px -5px 0 -5px;text-align:center;" src="'.$imguri.'" alt="'.$imgtitle.'" title="'.$imgtitle.'" />';
...
Sam, I just figured out what I was doing wrong this time. So nevermind my last 2 posts. Let’s just say when you have two installs of the same plugin, make sure you’r editing the right one. lol!
I did that once! Had 2 different versions of the same plugin, doing tests in both, had a brain fart and left them both on at some point…
Glad you got a handle on it.
Sam,
I upgraded to a different template and I am now using your widget. I think it’s great but I am having the same problem as Barbara did. Any help you give me would be great.
Ian, can you verify you are using version 0.98 please?
Yes Sam I am using the newest version 0.98. I had redownloaded it yesterday.
Ian: You’re using a link to an image on a remote server (photobucket). Although you can do this with some hosts, it won’t work with safe_mode on. You need to copy that image to /wp-content/uploads/.
Not sure what you mean by safe mode. I did move the picture to wpcontent/uploads/
Hmmm, nice widget, but not having the ability to control the style (ie text size) without editing the php file is not optimal. It would be nice if those were options added to the edittable widget options.
Mr Papa
Mr Papa: Actually this was always a concern, but the ‘real estate’ (size) of the config screen was limited. Not just limited by size, but IMO limited by how ‘complicated’ it could get.
I considered adding a class to the About Me elements and including a css file, but I really hoped to keep this plugin down to one file.
Next version, I plan to re-think this and get in some more configurable options (configurable without editing the aboutme.php file)…
Thanks for the feedback!
Hi Sam,
Thanks for a great widget, I’m enjoying it in firefox. However, like Barbara I’m unable to see my picture in IE. Could you forward me the email that you sent to her?
I tried looking for v0.99 (which you said contained the fix) but I can’t - could you help?
Cheers
Elizabeth:
As we discussed via email, you’ve raised concerns that the 0.98 fix isn’t working. I hope to get more feedback so I can get this straightened out for 0.99.
Note: The reference to 0.99 was a typo on my part.
Stephantasy says,Hi,
I would really like to use your widget, but although my theme has been changed to work with widgets, I don’t get a config button for the “About Me” widget. Is there anything I can do?
Stephantasy: Only time I have seen that before is when the Sidebar Widgets plugin isn’t installed right (or it’s a really old version).
Any other widgets working?
Stephantasy says,Yes, the other widgets seem to be working fine. I’m using the “Now Reading” widget and the Irrepressible widget from Amnesty International, also the normal ones (search, categories and archive etc).
However, it is very possible that I did something wrong somewhere, I have no clue about php. And I needed to insert some kind of code to make my theme widget ready… Would switching themes help? Though I really, really like my current theme. *sigh*
Well, switching themes might verify where the problem is. But if other widgets are working and you can click on the the little notepad-looking icon to open and configure them, then it sure sounds like the About Me widget got screwed up somewhere, perhaps in the download/upload?
BTW, the code for that little icon and the opening of the config panel is separate from my widget code, which is why I was thinking in that direction…
Stephantasy says,I deleted the widget and installed it again. Now it works! Sorry that I bothered you. And it’s a really great tool!
Not to worry Stephan, Glad to hear you got it working…
Hi, great widget!
however, i’m posting an image and it’s appearing as a small dot. not sure why it’s shrinking the picture down so much. it seems like it’s not getting the dimensions from the file and showing up as 1 X 1. Any fix?
Thanks, MLG
Matt: The most immediate solution is to edit the aboutme.php file, line 120:
echo '<ul><li><img style="'.$imgalign.'" src="'.$imguri.'" alt="'.$imgtitle.'" title="'.$imgtitle.'" width="'.$imgw.'px" height="'.$imgh.'px" /></li>';
Note the width="'.$imgw.'px" and height="'.$imgh.'px"… Find out your image dimensions and enter them so that the above line shows width= and height= like this:
width="123px" height="136px"
Make sure you change the 123 and 136 to your dimensions ;’)
Keep an eye on the next release, I’m hoping to change, well, pretty much everything. More info at About Me widget for WordPress - update
Sam, great work!
Tahnk you very much for useful widget!
Please help me. I have done everything that is asked. Activated the widget, created the upload folder in the correct directory, changed the lines of code:
$newoptions = array(
‘title’=>’About Me’,
‘imguri’=>’http://www.blog4brains.com/wp-content/uploads/cerebral.png’,
‘imgw’ => ‘111′,
‘imgh’ => ‘125′,
I still get nothing. Please help as I would love to utilize this great plugin.
Opps… I forgot to tell you my problem. No image in side bar. It is acting is if the url for the image is incorrect.
If you want to manually edit the options, do so at the bottom of the script (lines 120~123).
The area you edited is only ‘used’ the very first time the widget is initialized/installed.
Did you not have any success setting the options from Presentation:Sidebar Widgets in your admin pages?
omg, I cannot believe I was missing out on all of that. I did not even know you could go to the widgets link under presentation and edit it there. I thought you had to go into the file itself. Wow, that is nice to be able to edit like that. Anyways, thanks for the quick reply you are a great developer!
Justin
Hi Sam,
I just wanted to say thank you for that great plugin! Works fantastic and it’s a great way to connect with visitors!
sam, this looks like a great widget and i’m looking forward to using it. However, upon configuring, I get the error:
“Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! blog/wp-content/plugins/widgets/aboutme.php on line 44″
any suggestions?
I just wanted to report that I am having the same problem as Barbara and Elizabeth with .98 not showing images on IE, but displaying them fine on Firefox.
Other than that, I am stoked about this plugin! It works great!
i’m confused… .98 does not seem to fix the Dreamhost avatar “getimage” issue. help!
Hi Sam,
I’m new at wordpress, but spent most of yesterday trying to work with your about me widget without much success. I can see it on the website but can’t modify it from your default settings that say “Who the hell are you” and the like. When I go into admin-presentations, there is nothing that lets me config the specs. I tried going into the code and replacing the words but that did not make any changes. Any ideas?
Hi Mica:
Make sure you are not seeing a cached page… Disable wp-cache (if you’re using it) and clear the cache in your browser.
Only other thing I can think of is some people forget to hit ‘Save’ after closing the config window?
I cleared the cache…that didn’t work. The problem (I think) is that I don’t even see a config window. I it supposed to be under the presentation panel? The only way I could figure to make changes was to alter the code itself using the plugin editor…but that didn’t seem to work (I know nothing about code - I just substituted my name for “who the hell are you” - didn’t work). Thanks for any help you can give me!
The problem (I think) is that I don’t even see a config window.
Sounds like a bad install…
Start a new topic here: http://samdevol.com/wp-content/myforums/viewforum.php?id=3
This isn’t the place for troubleshooting, it’s too clumsy, really 
looks great!
unless I align it to anything other than center, in which case the text is on the same line as the picture and it ain’t pretty..
Thanks, Sam, for the nice plugin. I’m using the Kubrick default theme now but would like to use another one if I can figure out how to get it to recognize sidebar widgets. Any hints there? Thanks again for the great plugin. I’m using it.
Giles: In the forum there’s instructions on alignment issues, or you could try the beta here (Link removed, see post)
SEEV: Most themes mention whether they are widget compatible… Only other way to tell is check the functions.php or sidebar.php file that comes with the theme and look for an entry similar to:
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Main Sidebar') )
i also experienced the alignment issue so i tried the .99 version, however, when i click the button to add an image the secondary window that appears is not fronted…
this means that i have to click on it in order to specify a path to the desired picture which, unfortunately, closes the main AboutMe window as a result…
even so, the text info seems to be remembered, but the image isn’t added to the sidebar…
any suggestions?
fyi: it show up in the admin panel as 1.0 beta
-t
ps: thanks for the useful widget
Strange… Sounds like it could be an issue with TinyMCE and your browser. Are you using any pop-up blockers?
the built-in firefox one, yes, but should that matter when it’s a js window which does appear after all?
also, i didn’t realize i needed to install TinyMCE — could that be the issue?
the windows do appear at the same time, by the way, but the image selector window is just underneath the parent AboutMe window…
thanks,
-t
TinyMCE is included with WordPress. It is the editor used when editing posts in the admin area of WordPress.
I know there was an issue with Firefox and TinyMCE when a user had a lot of ’status’ info/icons along the bottom bar of Firefox, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.
I need more information, I’ll try to set some time aside for testing…
Hi i download and use it but the editor is not good 
in own about me is a pop up and when u want to switch to html in editor another window got open i think if u want to use editor it’s better to use simple and light editor like htmlarea.
another think is please wide the width of the window!
other things looks like good
and Thanks for your work
thanks a lot — let me know if you need any more info from me…
-t
Hey I downloaded the AboutMe Widget .99 Beta and I tried on WP Version 2.1.2 having troubles with the editor.. All I see is “Design your own widget below,” and blank. Is there any kind of editor to this? I know you mentioned about TinyMCE but I have no idea what that is. I’m also having trouble with the default editor in wordpress so I’m using HTML to post…
Kevin: .99 uses the default editor (which is TinyMCE). So if you default editor’s not working, then .99 won’t work.
Until you figure out why that’s not working, you could try .98
andy says,I’ve had some luck with About Me .98 except that it won’t set the image size when configuring the widget (the page code just shows ‘width=”px” height=”px”‘ for the dimensions). Any ideas? Otherwise it works well. thanks
Just a very big THNX!! I’m trying to create a weglog for my father-in-law and this was one of his wishes. While I wrecked my brains how to get this into all tis scary php, my search was succesfull cause I found this fanatstic widget. You made somebody very happy today, two somebodies actually. Thanks!
Andy: Have you tried relative paths?
http://samdevol.com/wp-content/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=22
Anna Hackman says,Hi. I installed the beta version on Wp 2.1.3 under widgets just like you said and nothing is showing up in the plug-ins??? anna
Pay says,this is a nice widget. I’ve tried it in my test site. I’m hoping we can edit the image size, I’m looking forward to that in your next version.
Hi - I have a question for you - I tried widgets and my sidebar is not coming out right - so I am going back to code. Is there a simple code for the sidebar that I can out in to do what your great widget does?
Thank you for any help you can be.
Thank you for sharing this widget.
~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog
I didnt understand 1.0-beta, so I kept 0.98, which is just fine.
Some issues:
- 1.0-beta does not take use the data already entered in the previous version. It starts up blank, no idea what to type in
- Trying to include an image: click on select image and I get a window with my blog and an error, instead of the file-select dialog for either my machine of the blog
Lets just say that 0.98 is nice for now
(EDIT-Sam: I’ll see about handling upgrades more gracefully: Thanks rd. As to your image problems, you haven’t shared enough information)
I have been wanting to add an “about me” for quite some time. I had no problem using your widget. Thanks for making it easy.
Toni: Wait! You commented to thank me AND you didn’t have any problems???
Where is that calendar, I need to write this one down…
You’re welcome!
Hello,
I love the widget! It’s cool.
I’d like to ask if it’s possible to use several “About Me” widgets on the same WordPress…
Thanks for time.
Hi Kenzo:
The answer is no: I never took into consideration those with a legitimate Multiple Personality Disorder…
Thanks for your soon reply. I need this option for a magazine website. I want that my client could make changes at the sitebars from the admin panel (for now my solution was with text widgets, but we need something more powerful like youre “about me”.) Do you know any ways or other widgets to help me? I’ll really appreciate this.
Thanks again.
Kenzo:
For the moment, the only suggestion I have is to use a php widget like the Samsarin PHP Widget…
In the meantime I’ll look at adding the ability of having multiple instances of ‘About Me’.
Thank you. Thanks a lot!
Good luck in your job.
I have a problem!
help please
I was trying to set up the wigdet and for some reason the default setting is gone! I cannot login the adm control pannel ( the link has disappeared!)
Amir: From here it looks like your sidebar is choking on the [slideshow...] command so nothing after that is being loaded (including the meta link to your admin/login).
You can always add wp-admin (or wp-login.php) to the url and that will bring your admin/login up.
Hey, I was configuring the about me widget, but when I try to add an image I get an error. It seems the widget is looking for AboutMe/mce/advimage/image.html, but the actual path has about-me-widget instead of AboutMe.
The entry box doesn’t seem to parse image tags, either, so I’m not sure what to do.
Rabbi:
I apologize for the late response: I should be able to address it with a patch, but a quick fix would be to change the directory name from “about-me-widget” to “AboutMe” (without the quotes).
mce not working with FF 2.0.0.9
please fix the css
As a widget, this works very nicely. For various reasons, I’m not using widgets right now. Is there a I could add to my sidebar, instead?
Thanks.
i couldn’t make the plug-in initializing
how i can add it to the sidebar?
I’m having a problem that I’ve seen others mention–the 404 Error–when trying to get the Image Editor to insert an image.
I’m running version 1.04 of the Widget on an Apache Server running version 1.3.39 (Unix). The operating system for the server is Linux. I’m sure I have the Widget installed correctly, and I think I have the photo in the right directory, too. (It’s in the uploads folder of the wp-content folder. In that uploads folder, there is a 2008 folder which leads to an 01 folder, too. There are three theme jpegs in there, but my photo is up two levels in the uploads folder itself.)
The widget sure looks like something that would be great to use, but I’m pulling my hair out over here, trying to figure out what might not be configured right about it, for my environment.
The TinyMCE editor is not working for me. I am using Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9, both with JavaScript enabled and my WordPress version is 2.3.2. I don’t see any buttons in the editor, although the editor works for me writing posts in WordPress.
Hi!
Thanks for the great widget!
I seem to be having one little tiny issue.
I would like to make three links within the widget.
The links would link to other pages on my wordpress blog. How do I do that?
I tried a few things, but they never seem to turn into links, the code just shows up in the widget on my page.
any ideas?
thanks!
TinyMCE editor is not working for me as I edit the widget. What might be the reason?
version 1.02 works better for me than 1.04…
it can use Japanese language ?
Great little tool will be recommended
TinyMCE isn’t showing up here either, with wp2.5 and About Me widget 1.0.4.
I really like this plug-in and recommend it on my site but it’s useless with WordPress 2.5.1.
The newest version has reduced your plug-in into a text box.
Any chance that you might update it?
Hi,
I’ve just upgrade WP in version 2.5.1 and after removed your widget “About me” in my 1rst side bar, to ADD it in the second one, I can’t do it anymore…
When I click ADD on your widget, the page is all white and stay blocked.
I’m sick because i’d like your plugin, but I can’t use it.
Please Help.
[J] says,Hi! I think your widget is great, but could you make it compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1 or higher? Because WP 2.6 is now available, you know. Any plans to update it? Thank you very much, you should really consider it. Thanks again!
Is there a way to use a ‘hard code’ on my sidebar? I have other stuff there that I don’t use widgets.
Cheers!
Does this not work with wordpress 2.5? I can see the widget but can’t use the editing tools.
