Debashish

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Can’t commit any date, lets see ??

The Widget doesn’t define any style of its own for the Title (only the text is configurable), you can always define yoru onw style. An easy way is to add style for h3 (or for the widget-title class) in your WordPress theme stylesheet, something like

h3 {
  background-color:#222222;
  color:#ffffff;
}

Glad to know this Hans.

Hello Hans,

The widget was never designed to work that way, it was meant to show “meta-data” of the post/page, i.e. information about a particular post (in this case the author profile). The FAQ does hint towards this by saying that its meant to display Author(s) for a “Single” post, not multiple.

There is certainly a work-around for which you must edit the widget code. Change line 107 from:

if(!$isHome && (is_single() || is_page()) && $authordata->ID){

to something like:

if($authordata->ID){

Just remember that this is not the way I designed the Widget, its not supposed to be used for multiple posts. Also note that with the check removed the Widget would potentially display on all sidebars and I cannot guarantee a “desired” behavior.

You must provide additional details so that I could understand your problem. Can you provide the website/blog URL of the page you are experiencing the issue? Is it the home page (Widget is not supposed to work here) or a page for Post (Single) or a WordPress Page where the widget doesn’t display anything?

The widget will not work on category pages. Its only supposed to work for pages or posts that have author(s).

Dave, I don’t think its an issue with the Author Spotlight plugin, perhaps you posted in the wrong thread. It seems to be an issue with your WordPress installation and you would get help from others if you post in general thread and provide link to your site.

Sorry currently not supported, will consider in next patch.

I only see one social icon on that profile page and don’t understand why you say there is not enough room. Perhaps you meant adding some space after or before the Widget, which you can try using the following CSS to your theme style-sheet:

div.AuthorSpotlight_Widget {
   margin-bottom:10px;
   margin-top:10px;
}

Cool, thanks.

Not a bad idea, will consider for the next release. Any other required social icon I am missing?

You will have to point me to the page (URL) where the widget is currently deployed so that I could take a look at the HTML source to be able to help.

You may try replacing the following line:

if((is_single() || is_page()) && $authordata->ID){

with

if((is_single() || is_page()) && $authordata->ID && !is_super_admin($authordata->ID)){

Note that I haven’t tested it and the plugin doesn’t support this.

Why do you need a shortcode? This is a WordPress Widget and you can practically put it anywhere on your theme by adding a widget area, there are several tutorials on web like this one. Once the widget area is created, you can drag-and-drop this widget from Appearance > Widget section like a regular sidebar widget.