A sidebar widget to display your public gists from GitHub. Allows for optional display of creation date and link back to your GitHub profile page. Uses v3 of the GitHub API.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Upload the 'gist-sidebar-widget' folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Drag the widget to your sidebar and input your username, number of gists, and options for displaying creation date and a link back to your GitHub profile.
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The plugin options displayed within the widget.
What does this do?
It displays your public gists from GitHub on the sidebar, linking to each of them on GitHub.
They look kind of bland. Can I style them?
Sure can. There are four classes to look at to add to you CSS.
Each list item
<li>has the classgist_itemEach link within the
<li>has the classgist_linkThe optional creation date is wrapped in a
<span>with the classgist_dateThe optional link to your GitHub profile is in a
<p>with the classgithub_link
Is that it?
Pretty much, yeah.
1.1
- Added username to transient variable to allow multiple widget use.
1.0
- Initial release