Mar 23 2008

Category: Themes and Tricks

• CSS We Are The Buzz (5 out of 5)
• Throw (5 out of 5)
• qmula (5 out of 5)
• Heartworker (5 out of 5)
• Decently Exposed (5 out of 5)
• Gmcosta (5 out of 5)
• DePo Masthead (3 out of 5)
• Sinklar (3 out of 5)
• Simple WordPress Theme - SimpleWP (3 out of 5)
• Arman Adhitama (3 out of 5)

No where is a cool Plugin for blog masters who allow other others to write on their blogs. It is called Author Exposedand 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
• email
• 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.

1. Download the .zip file to your computer and unzip
2. Upload “author_exposed” folder to your ”/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP or with your cPanel file manager
3. 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.

Read it at the source