User photo plugin (optional). If your blogs are co-authored by multiple people then you can use Co-Authors Plus plugin (optional) to display all author profiles on the post page.
Author: Debashish Chakrabarty
Author URI: http://www.debashish.com
Min WP Version: 3.0
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//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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'AuthorSpotlight_Widget', 'description' => "Sidebar widget to display Author(s)' profile on a post page." );
/* Widget control settings. */
$control_ops = array('width' => 200, 'height' => 300);
parent::__construct('authorspotlight', __('AuthorSpotlight'), $widget_ops, $control_ops);
$this->icon_image_url = plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'images/';
}
function widget( $args, $instance ) {
// If Co-Authors plus plugin exists display all co-aothor profiles one after another
if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links')) {
$i = new CoAuthorsIterator();
$cnt = 1;
while($i->iterate()){
// the iterator overwrites the global authordata variable on each iteration
$instance['seq'] = $cnt++;
$instance['isLast'] = $i->is_last();
$this->_displayAuthor($args, $instance);
}
}
else {
// Normal behavior, one author per blog post
$instance['seq'] = 1;
$instance['isLast'] = true;
$this->_displayAuthor( $args, $instance);
}
}
function form($instance) {
$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => 'Author Spotlight', 'readfulltext' => 'Read Full', 'moretext' => 'More posts by the Author »', 'websitetext' => 'Website: ', 'charlimit' => '1000') );
$title = strip_tags($instance['title']);
$readfulltext = strip_tags($instance['readfulltext']);
$moretext = strip_tags($instance['moretext']);
$websitetext = strip_tags($instance['websitetext']);
$charlimit = strip_tags($instance['charlimit']);
?>
Which social icons should be displayed for the author?
_getIconsAsArray() as $key => $data ) {
printf('get_field_id($key), $this->get_field_name($key));
printf("%s", checked( 1, $instance[$key] ));
echo(' /> ');
printf('', $data['img_src'], $data['img_title'] );
printf('%s', $data['img_seperator']);
}
?>
Note: To display custom photos with User Profiles, please use the User photo plugin. The CoAuthors Plus plugin will help you add multiple authors and display their profiles.
_getIconsAsArray() as $key => $data ) {
$instance[$key] = strip_tags($new_instance[$key]);
}
return $instance;
}
// Does the actual work of preparing the profile markup
private function _displayAuthor($args, $instance){
global $authordata;
extract( $args ); // extract arguments
if((is_single() || is_page()) && $authordata->ID){
if($instance['seq'] == 1){
echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title . $instance['title'] . $after_title;
}
echo '
";
//Display User photo OR the Gravatar
if(function_exists('userphoto_exists') && userphoto_exists($authordata)){
userphoto_thumbnail($authordata);
}
else {
echo get_avatar($authordata->ID, 96);
}
//Display author profile, with link to full profile
$author_posts_link = get_author_posts_url($authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename );
echo '