About Me widget WordPress Plugin
Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.
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. Et voila. This was my first-ever widget, so I appreciate your patience ;')
Now, with over 8000 downloads I am releasing what I hope to be a more friendly widget. The biggest issues previously were related to path(s), layout and alignment. This left me wanting to re-design the configuration interface, keeping in mind a lot of users know little about HTML/CSS and validity issues, yet allowing the geekier to get into details/code if so desired.
After a lot of hours designing, testing and uttering quite a few curses, my head finally popped out of my sphincter and I decided to use what WordPress uses: TinyMCE. WordPress users are
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Usage of About Me widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 13 to 10 — down 3 (-23.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 10 | -1 |
| March 2024 | 11 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 12 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 12 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 13 | — |
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