I hope you enjoyed my presentation at WordCamp. I value your input, so when you are done here, head over to the contact page and let me know what you thought of the presentation or if you have any questions about the plugin. I can also be reached on Twitter @VegasGeek.
[note: This plugin isn't really intended to be run on your live site. It will run, it won't break anything, I've just taken a couple shortcuts that will display hard-coded author names/links/photos rather than pulling them from your database. Contact me if you would like a more robust version of this plugin that will display your own author information. - John]
You can download the Display Author Box plugin here.
If you are interested in learning more about building a plugin, here are some handy resources.
- Writing a Plugin
- Plugin API
- WordPress Hooks
- Plugin API/Action Reference
- Adding Administration Pages
- Creating Options Pages
- Shortcode API
- Shortcode Attributes
- Example readme.txt file
- Dashboard Widget API
- Plugin Submission and Promotion
