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Wordpress Widget: hCard About Box

April 20th, 2007 by Steve Ivy

As described in my previous post, I wanted to have my hcard on the site, and since I was “widgetizing” this new theme, thought it would be fun to create a sidebar widget. So I did, and here it is, released under the GPL and MIT licenses.

The hCard About Box widget:

Installation:

Get it from the monkinetic widgets repo.

Upload to wp-content/plugins/widgets/, then enable the plugin under “Plugins” in the admin interface. Under “Presentation > Sidebar Widgets”, drag the “hCard About Box” widget to the sidebar you want it to appear in, then save.

For microformats geeks:

  • Name becomes maps to fn
  • The blog URI maps to url
  • Title, Org, and Note all map to their respective hcard properties.
  • “me” links are marked up as rel=”me” XFN links (freebie!)

Get it from the monkinetic widgets repo. Feedback welcome.