No where is a cool Plugin for blog masters who allow other others to write on their blogs. It is called Author Exposed and is fairly new. Launched this month as far as I can see.
This is how the Plugin looks like in action:
The way it works is that the author name is still displayed as a link below the post title. But now instead of clicking out onto the authors site that is linked to the profile with the_author() tag, it will pop up this box as seen above.
If the author has a photo linked to their profile, it will show this as well as
- name
- website URL
- a small about text
- and even better, a link to all the previous posts of the same author
This is done via a hidden div layer.
Installation of the Author Exposed Plugin is pretty simple.
- Download the .zip file to your computer and unzip
- Upload “author_exposed” folder to your ”/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP or with your cPanel file manager
- Place the following code inside your loop where you want your author link to appear (most users place this below the post title).
<?php if (function_exists('author_exposed')){author_exposed();} ?>
That’s it, you should now see a fancy new window every time you hover over the authors name.
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Something new to try out… I sometimes really wonder so useful plugins people keep on developing. This is cool for bloggers trying to give good exposure to their guest authors again.
Sounds interesting! I’ve bookmarked this for future reference, thanks!
Barbara
This sounds interesting! I’ll try this out too:) Thanks!
Use it in this blog then?
I don’t see any people wants to donate free post on my blog. It is whether they ask for money or ask for free link in return. How would that sounds to you?
Hmmm.. very interesting.. WordPress just rocks my socks!
Don’t really see a point, couldn’t you just set up an author bio page?
This is great and I want it. Thanks for creating it. But this loop stuff is geeeeeek stuff. I have no clue how to get it in the loop as most google loop searches brings me to no *easy* solution. I am not afraid to search for solutions but when they talk about the ^%$#))! loop they talk geeky stuff. They don’t talk plain stuff. So I am stuffed for now.
@ Johan: try this link, it will help you understand the loop and the code that goes with it. http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action
@ Monika. Thanks been there. Will go there again
@ Johan: I’m happy to help you, if you still have issues after reading this stuff again. I’m going to sleep now, but feel free to send me an email if you are stuck.
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