Title: addauthor
Author: wolly
Published: <strong>February 5, 2009</strong>
Last modified: July 10, 2021

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# addauthor

 By [wolly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wolly/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/addauthor.1.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/addauthor/#description)
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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/addauthor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/addauthor/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin allow you to show where you want, inside the loop, a gravatar of the
author of the post, the description of the author of the post, the nick of the author
of the post and the date of the post.**_PAY ATTENTION if you are upgrading, please
take note that CSS is changed, you find a CSS example in sample.css, copy it in 
yours style.css and apply the change you need_**

### Arbitrary section

### A brief Markdown Example

## Screenshots

[⌊This is how addauthor appear on mine blog.⌉⌊This is how addauthor appear on mine
blog.⌉[

This is how addauthor appear on mine blog.

## Installation

 1. Upload `addauthor` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Place `<?php if( function_exists( 'wolly_addaut' ) ) wolly_addaut(); ?>` in your
    templates where you want to show the author description WITHIN the loop.
 4. Insert new class in yours style.css ‘.clear’ and ‘ul.addaut’ ‘ul.addaut li’ and‘
    ul.addaut li’. You find an example in the file ‘sample.css’
 5. register to gravatar.com yours authors
 6. fill in, under yours profile, the description of the authors

For 2.8 and 2.9 use the 1.2 for 2.7 use only 1.0 cause the 1.2 has the new function.

## FAQ

Why use this plugin?
 To show a gravatar and a descritpion of the author(s) of your
blog

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“addauthor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Wolly aka Paolo Valenti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wolly/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/addauthor/), check 
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## Changelog

1.3
 Changed readme file for compatibily with new WP versions

1.2
 Changed CSS to have a minimun height to avoid bad display if you have short
author description

1.1
 Changed some deprecated function in 2.8

1.0
 First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.8.13**
 * Tag
 * [author description](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-description/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/addauthor/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Wolly aka Paolo Valenti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wolly/)

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