About me

About Me WordPress Plugin

Networks

  • Amazon Wishlist
  • Anobii
  • Bitbucket
  • Blogs
  • BlogMarks
  • Dapx
  • Delicious
  • DeviantART
  • Digg
  • Disqus
  • Ebay
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • FriendFeed
  • Github
  • GoodReads
  • Google Profile
  • Google Reader
  • Hellotxt
  • Hyves.nl
  • Identi.ca
  • Jeqq
  • Last FM
  • LibraryThing
  • Linked In
  • My Space
  • Orkut
  • Picasa Web Albums
  • Plurk
  • Pownce
  • Qik
  • Qype
  • RedGage
  • Sixent
  • Songza
  • Stumble Upon
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Xing

The About Me WordPress plugin is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites. You can see it in action here on the right hand side of my blog.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the installation zip file and unzip leaving the directory structure in tact.
2. Upload the newly unzipped ’about-me’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` folder folder
3. Activate the About Me plugin from the wordpress plugins activation page.
4. Add the widget to your sidebar from the Widget design page.
5. Add your social links from the About Me page under Tools.

Other resources:

Bug tracker, code browser and official page on wordpress codex.

If you want more social networks supported, just open a ticket providing me a link to an user profile. I will add suggested sites in upcoming releases.

This plugin is a fork of Social Links

When I hit ‘Add’ nothing happens

The ‘add’ button is linked to an ajax function provided by prototype lib. Some other plugins inject their own version of prototype, instead of using the one provided by WP, this result in a broken ‘add’ button.

If you are using Use Google Libraries plugins read this

Changelog:

From 1.0.6 to 1.0.7

  • Fixed conflict with find-me-on plugin

From 1.0.5 to 1.0.6

  • Added Anobii
  • Added DeviantART
  • Added LibraryThing
  • Added Qik
  • Added Songza

From 1.0.4 to 1.0.5

  • Added GoodReads
  • Added Orkut
  • Added Google Profile
  • Added Google Reader
  • Added Qype
  • Added Ebay
  • Now works when WP url is different from blog url (under options->general)

From 1.0.3 to 1.0.4

  • Added RedGage

From 1.0.2 to 1.0.3

  • Added Disqus

From 1.0.1 to 1.0.2

  • Added Hyves.nl
  • Title tag added to images.

From About me 1.0.0 to About me 1.0.1

  • Added Hellotxt
  • Management page renamed to ‘About Me’
  • Widget renamed to ‘About Me – Social Links’
  • Widget width input text is now wider

From Social Links 1.0.11 to About me 1.0.0

  • Added Bitbucket, Identi.ca and Github
  • Fixed problems with Lightbox2 and Slimbox
  • Added rel="me" attributes in links
  • evanslaw
    Great plugin! Would love the ability to also add a link to a specific page on my WP blog; e.g., a link to my "about" page.
  • Tom
    It does not support long facebook profiles. It automatically cuts the link at 52 characters. Can this be fixed, so that it supports longer links?
  • Could you please consider adding http://redbubble.com to this plugin?
  • First I want to thank you for this plugin. It's a really excellent and sleek little addition to my blog!

    I have one social network site I am a member of that this plugin does not support: http://ravelry.com

    Here is a link to my profile, but I don't know if you will be able to see it without a membership. I understand that you may not be able to implement this site, but I thank you for your consideration: http://www.ravelry.com/people/vcnielson
  • Hello;
    Really like the plugin, have a couple of questions:
    1. is it possible to add code to allow for opening of links in new window
    2. is it possible to increase size of icons?
    3. facebook only seems to work for personal facebook url, not for facebook pages - can this be changed?

    Thx,
    Marc
  • hi!
    how is it possible, that the url's are opened in a new window?
    thx
    schmuddel
  • How can i add this plugin to my blog???
  • Hmm..., I wish there is a way to put it on a single page :)
  • You have to do some PHP work on your theme.

    THe following codes calls About Me widget
    if ( function_exists('widget_social_links') ) {
    $about_me_opts = array( "before_title"=>"", "after_title"=>"", "before_widget"=>"", "after_widget"=>"");
    widget_social_links($about_me_opts);
    }
    ?>
  • DaveTheSkeptic
    About Me plugin does not work :

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare savesortorder() (previously declared in /homepages/33/d86530088/htdocs/HampshireSkeptics/Blog/wp-content/plugins/find-me-on/find-me-on.php:1034) in /homepages/33/d86530088/htdocs/HampshireSkeptics/Blog/wp-content/plugins/about-me/aboutme.php on line 508
  • This is a wonderful plugin. Thank you. I'd like to request the addition of two social neetworking sites:

    LibraryThing: A book lovers and book cataloging network like GoodReads and Shelfari.

    Mendeley: An academic research network for organizing bibliographies, sharing research and publications, and collaboration.
  • Bram
    FYI: I've requested Library Thing a while ago and it is already part of the plugin!
  • Really? I don't see it as an option. Was it removed?
  • Please add Netlog, it's the fastest growing social networking site in Europe ;)
  • Hello,

    I was wondering if these networks could be added too?

    Badoo
    BrightKite
    Discogs
    Marktplaats
    MobyPicture
    Netlog
    StumbleUpon
    Tumblr
    VampireFreaks
    Vimeo

    If you need any help with it to get it done, give me a message... Got some spare time for now ;-)
  • Please provide me a profile link for each network ;)
  • Badoo
    BrightKite - http://brightkite.com/people/mariusvw
    Discogs - http://www.discogs.com/user/mariusvw
    Marktplaats - http://verkopers.marktplaats.nl/12241926
    MobyPicture - http://www.mobypicture.com/user/mariusvw
    Netlog
    StumbleUpon - http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/mariusvwdotcom/
    Tumblr - http://mariusvw.tumblr.com/
    VampireFreaks - http://vampirefreaks.com/mariusvw
    Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/mariusvw

    Here the profile linkes.

    Simply replace 'mariusvw', id or 'mariusvwdotcom' with the username and it should work :-)
  • Plugin is cool but I see no icons. I have version 2.8.4 of Wordpress. My widget has the name "profielen"
  • Did you added them under Tools->About Me ?
  • what is the code to manually add the sidebar?
  • Bram
    Great plugin! Also the first one that actually added sites! (compared to social links).
    I wanted to send you a ticket to add LibraryThing.com in a next release but I don't get the captcha picture and as such can't send you a ticket for that!

    But again thanks for the great plugin! And if possible please add LibraryThing!
  • Added in repository, try this http://bitbucket.org/nolith/about-me/get/b017b58d9ece.zip
    I'm sorry for the delay but I had been busy with my bachelor degree.
  • Ike
    Greetings

    Thanks for the plugin. is there a way to make the icons larger? They are very small and hard to see for my market segment. Any chance of me just going into the plugin folder and adding images to the desired size?

    TIA
  • You can change icons under images folder in about-me directory.
    Remeber to change it after every upgrade.
    Bye
  • poetofzwan
    How do I go about getting all my icons to be shown as one (rather than two) rows? i see you have the plugin displaying your social icons in this way, but I can't seem to see how to do this myself.
  • Appearence->Widgets
    "About Me - Social Links" and change width property.


    Bye
  • poetofzwan
    Thanks! Don't know how I missed that!

    Appreciate the quick response : )
  • Hi, the plugin works great.
    Wondering if there's a way to set it so that when people click on the social media logo they're not taken away from my page. Can it be set so that it open in a new window?
  • dick80
    Same here! Any tips?
  • Where is the download for the "aboutme" widget?
    Thanks.
  • It's here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about-me/ or the latest version http://code.l0g.in/about-me/get/tip.zip

    Yes you can change the "about me" name iunder the widget option.

    Bye
  • Scrivi qui il tuo commento.
    Hello, in your widget, can I change the name from "about me" to something like "follow us"?
  • Excellent plugin, great work, thanks!

    Please add support for http://Songza.com when you get a chance.

    Cheers,
    Kevin
  • Added in repository, try this http://bitbucket.org/nolith/about-me/get/b017b58d9ece.zip
    I'm sorry for the delay but I had been busy with my bachelor degree.
  • Plugin comodissimo. Era esattamente ciò che cercavo.
    Suggerisco deviantart.com e anobii.com.
    Perché non spostare il link di configurazione back-end nella voce Plugins?

    Grazie mille!
  • Aggiunti nel repository, se vuoi puoi provarlo scaricando questo http://bitbucket.org/nolith/about-me/get/b017b58d9ece.zip
    Scusa per il ritardo ma mi stavo laureando :)
  • Andreia
    Hello, Started using your plugin. It's working great.
    I have to questions, how can I change the images displayed and how can I add a social network not listed yet, being that service this one http://qik.com/nokiaportugal

    Thank you
  • Andreia
    uoooou, now that was quick and it works also ;)

    Thank you so much,Andreia
  • Version 1.x.x did't allow you to easily change the icons.
    You can find them under /wp-content/plugins/about-me/images/, please consider that updating About Me will overwrite them.

    I'll add for you qik.com as soon as possible.

    Version 2.0.0 will allow a easier icon change, but it's scheduled after september due to my thesis work.
  • Zsiti
    Hi. The plugin is great, thanks for developing it, but I have a problem with it, and I could use some help with that. For some reason it doesn't display the icons of the social sites in the widget, it writes out the Name of it instead. Also I can't add any more social site links, nothing happens when I push the "Add" button. I suppose it is some permission problem or something, I am quite new to WordPress, maybe I messed up something. Thanks for help in advance.
    Zsiti
  • Tnx for using About Me. Please try version 1.0.5 which should fix the image not dispalying problem.

    For the 'add' problem may be related to another plugin injecting some JS function.
    Please update to 1.0.5 and report again (specifying the list of plugins installed).

    Tnx
  • Zsiti
    Version 1.0.5 fixed all the problems, now it's working! Thanks for the update, and support! Keep on developing this nice plugin! Good job!
  • The plugin is cool
    I like it.....
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