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Wordpress Plugin - Author Exposed

Tags: Plugins • March 14, 2008. Written by Igor.

Author Exposed is a simple Wordpress plugin that allows your visitors easy and elegant way to see more details about the post author.

This plugin does the same thing as the_author() tag only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the layer pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus gravatar photo, if author email is assigned with one.

Click here to see it in action, or by clicking on this post author name (Igor) bellow the title.

Installation

Upload “author_exposed” folder to the”/wp-conten/plugins/” directory. Activate the plugin and place this code (inside the loop) where you want your author link to appear:

<?php if (function_exists('author_exposed')){author_exposed();} ?>

That’s all. Don’t forget to leave some feedback.

Plugin: AuthorExposed (4kb).Download

This plugin is released under the GNU General Public License.

99 Replies to "Wordpress Plugin - Author Exposed"

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Moses Francis on March 15, 2008

This is the kinda plugin i’ve really been waiting for, great job Igor!

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Igor on March 15, 2008

@ Moses Francis

Thx for posting it on wptp, appriciated.

Fath on March 16, 2008

Congratulations on your first plugin :)

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Igor on March 16, 2008

Hey Fath, thanks. I hope you will be using it =)

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Anand on March 17, 2008

Cool plugin. I activated it at my site http://www.visualanand.net/.

I removed the E-mail from it as I don’t want to display e-mail.

Regards,
Anand N

coltranelgc on March 17, 2008

Hello Igor,

Thanks for the plugin, although I am receiving a Javascript error. Please help.

Armen on March 17, 2008

Nice work, Igor. This could turn out to be a very effective plugin, especially for multi-author sites.

Igor on March 17, 2008

@ coltranelgc
Have you uploaded all the files/folders to wp-content/plugins/ directory ? If you still get an error contact me on my email.

@Armen
Thank you Armen. Yeah, it can be really effective for sites with more authors. This way user can have a quick look at authors profile, posts …

@Anand
Thx Anand. Yes you can remove your email or provide them with alternative through the profile page.

Alexandar Tzanov on March 18, 2008

I installed and activated the plugin, but when I click on a link I receive the following error “toggleDiv is not defined”

Igor on March 18, 2008

Alexandar, just make sure you uploaded whole “author_exposed” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory. If you still get an error contact me on my email.

Diseño Web on March 19, 2008

Well done job Igor, nice and effective debut…. for be the first plugin.

Regards,
Diseño Web

Igor on March 19, 2008

Diseño Web - Thx, much appreciated.

Chad on March 20, 2008

Great plugin. I have uploaded the entire folder but I do not get the window when I click the link. I do not get an error like others mentioned, but nothing happens…

Thanks,
Chad

Igor on March 20, 2008

Hello Chad. Thanks. I checked your site and apparently you made the same mistake as others.

You named the plugin folder “author-exposed” while it should be “author_exposed”.

Deactivate the plugin, rename the folder and activate it again.

Chad on March 21, 2008

Ahh. Thanks. Worked for one of my sites. Still working on 100k but it may be an issue with Javascript in general on that site.

Igor on March 21, 2008

Checked your site and as far as I can tell, it’s working just fine =)

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Rebecca on March 24, 2008

The plugin looks awesome - I want to use it to display a list of the authors on the site. Is there code I can put on a template page that calls and works outside the loop
Thanks so much

Igor on March 24, 2008

Thanks Rebecca. Right now, it’s working only when placed inside of the loop.

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cuzzy on March 27, 2008

hi I have been playing around with this plugins.

Why does it only work on single posts and not on the front page of my blog.

Why does it make all of the categories disappear on single posts but they show up on the front page?

cool idea for sure.

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allan on April 3, 2008

Hi!
great plugin. I love it.
By the way how can i show photo in this plugin?

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Igor on April 3, 2008

Allan thanks.
For photo, you would have to create gravatar account.

sesebian on April 3, 2008

Te?ekkürler..

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mmoretti on April 4, 2008

great job!!!!

Igor on April 4, 2008

mmoretti - Thanks !

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Shane on April 5, 2008

We love this plugin. It has really helped our site. But, how can we do the following:

1) Change the default avatar (if the user does not have one associated with their email)? We would like to use our logo…

2) Add the feed for the author’s posts

Thanks a lot!

Sincerely,
Shane

Igor on April 5, 2008

Shane, I will send you the details on email, although I’m not sure if I can make it before Monday.

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hakan on April 12, 2008

very nice plugin… great job.. thanks igor

Igor on April 12, 2008

thanks hakan

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Great job on this plugin, this is just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

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Lucy on April 22, 2008

Very nice plugin.

I’d like to see additions along the lines that Shane has suggested above: using a logo instead of a gravatar, if there isn’t one, and adding in the feed.

Would you be happy to share the instructions you sent to Shane, or should we wait for the next version?

rocky on April 27, 2008

Hello Igor, I love the premise of this plugin. I am having one small problem (I am a newbie at this wp stuff). What file to I put the code in for “The Loop?”

Thanks
Rocky

Igor on April 27, 2008

Rocky,

The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. For main page, you should edit index.php, for archives - archive.php …

rocky on April 27, 2008

I am using the “Theme Editor” to look for , however I am not finding the code in my index or acrhive page. Am I looking in the right files?

Thank you very much for your help!!!! I am truly greatful.

rocky on April 27, 2008

I guess I should not use dash’s and greater than/less than sing to show “the loop”. Anyway, I am not finding it in the pages you mentioned.

Victor on April 27, 2008

Hi there. Call me a noob, but i can’t seem to figure out what to edit/add/replace and most important in which php file so that the plugin does it’s thing just as in the demo from up above. Any help will be appreciated :)

scot on May 1, 2008

Love the plugin. Love it.

But I’d like to be able to add extra fields in the author window, such as (YIM) or as discussed above, RSS feed. I took the time to go through ‘author_exposed.php’ looking for the instances of each field being used (name, email, site, etc.) and added a new one (YIM). Works great, shows up now in the author window.

I then found two plugins (WP User Manager and Cimy User Extra Fields) that allow you to create new fields in the WP profile panel. Essentially, using these plugins you could create “RSS” and using the method described above, add it to the author exposed file. I’ve tried this, but I can’t get the correct language for the new field to be used in author exposed.

While this won’t display RSS in the author window, it will at least show a link to the member’s feed.

Perhaps someone can try to unlock the proper code for the field using WP User Manager plugin?

Thx

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Ivan on May 8, 2008

Hi,

very good job !

I just have a problem, the background of the popup is … transparent. It’s bad, i would like a white background like you.

What can i do ?

For an example : http://pinguinoweb.free.fr/v3/wp/?p=47

Tanks.

Scot on May 9, 2008

I seem to be having a problem with AE. When I do a Google search for my site’s URL, the excerpt that comes up in results is my author bio. I’ve tried changing authors away form the admin, etc. but it still happens. Has anyone experienced this as well?

Thx

PacKiT0 on May 9, 2008

This is one of the best plugins for wordpress! just what I needed! great stuff!

mich on May 12, 2008

I was wondering if there was a way to make the email clickable?

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maurooo on May 13, 2008

best plugin !

But 2 things:

1) I would like to use as Avatar an uploaded image on my blog and don’t use an external service as Gravatar. Is it possible ?
2) Add all the fields that you could fill in Users in WP administration panel

thx in advance
Mauro

maurooo on May 13, 2008

There is a problem when you use Global Translator:
it loses all the referements:

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Buanzo on May 15, 2008

Hi! Is it possible to convert the box into a widget, so I can show my author info (picture, etc) permanently on the sidebar?

Igor on May 15, 2008

Sorry guys, I can’t handle the support anymore. I just don’t have the time.

@ Buanzo - No.

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Sweet Plugin! Thank you for all you Do!

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If I use it in comments.php it still just show the author of the post, not the comment?

Is that on purpose?

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JoePritchard on July 2, 2008

Excellent.

Am using it in the above site - thank you so much!

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Guillermo on July 8, 2008

Hello all. Has anyone installed this successfully on 2.5.1? I am getting some javascript errors and the plugin is not working.

Igor on July 8, 2008

@Guillermo

Plugin is working fine on 2.5.1.

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regenerate on July 17, 2008

I just installed in on WP 2.6, javascript doesn’t seem to work: I don’t get a pop-up with the author information (IE7 and Fx 3).

Igor on July 17, 2008

@regenerate

You made the most common mistake. Plugin should be placed in “author_exposed” directory, not in “author-exposed”.

Notice the difference ?

regenerate on July 17, 2008

I changed the map (suggestion: use the _ instead of the - when packing the plugin) and activated the plugin again. It now works in IE7, not in Fx3 though…

Byron King on July 20, 2008

Hi there. This is so rad. I’ve been looking for something like this for two years now.

One question is this.

How do the authors get their gravatars? Is that just through gravatar.com?

also,

On this page:
http://www.jaxcal.org/page/4
top entry you’ll notice that the pop up goes under the video. Is there any way in the stacking order I can get it to go over the video?

Thanks again for a great plugin.

Byron

Igor on July 20, 2008

@ Byron King

Yes, it’s done through gravatar.com. It’s a simple process.

byron king on July 23, 2008

just to follow up. it’s actually a wmode=”transparent” setting in the embedding video. the http://www.blip.tv videos don’t have a that in them. they should. it’s an easy fix. that way this plugin doesn’t go behind the video.

great plugin. thanks so much.