About Me widget

Version: 2.2

Version : 2.2

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Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.

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Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ‘seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me” to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget might be nice for this. Et voila. This was my first-ever widget, so I appreciate your patience ;’) Now, with over 8000 downloads I am releasing what I hope to be a more friendly widget. The biggest issues previously were related to path(s), layout and alignment. This left me wanting to re-design the configuration interface, keeping in mind a lot of users know little about HTML/CSS and validity issues, yet allowing the geekier to get into details/code if so desired. After a lot of hours designing, testing and uttering quite a few curses, my head finally popped out of my sphincter and I decided to use what WordPress uses: TinyMCE. WordPress users are at least somewhat familiar with it, it’s already ‘built-in’ (no extra libraries/scripts) and I soon discovered it was easily configurable. Actually it’s easily configurable AFTER you’ve learned how. Before, it’s a bitch. So here it is. The New King Hell Deluxe About Me Widget Supreme (ymmv) !!Note!! This version is not backwards compatible with versions of wordpress older than 3.1 If you are upgrading to version 2.0...

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  • The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
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About About Me widget

Description

Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ‘seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me” to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget might be nice for this. Et voila. This was my first-ever widget, so I appreciate your patience ;’) Now, with....

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Performance

Memory Usage

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Page Speed

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Speed Test Benchmark

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  • After plugin activation

Pages

Benchmark

Change

Average Change
+ 0.12s
/(front page)
+ 0.03s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.17s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.19s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.13s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.05s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.3s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 0.12s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 0.15s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.19s
/wp-admin/upload.php
- 0.01s

Memory Usage Memory Usage Benchmark

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  • After plugin activation

Pages

Benchmark

Change

Average Change
- 2.56KB
/ (front page)
- 7.86KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 1.36KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 1.61KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 1.46KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 1.29KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 1.61KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 1.65KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 10.08KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 2.02KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 2.02KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 1.4KB

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WP-Options

The plugin has added 1 additional options to your WordPress website.

Errors

PHP Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.2.16. It may not work.

WordPress Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin may not be fully compatible with WordPress 5.2.4.

JavaScript Error

  • This plugin has 3 JavaScript errors.

Frequently Updated

  • The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.

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Error Log

We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.

  • [17-Oct-2019 12:54:12 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; About_Me_Widget has a deprecated constructor in /wp-content/plugins/about-me-widget/aboutme.php on line 16
  • [17-Oct-2019 12:54:12 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: pagenow in /wp-content/plugins/about-me-widget/aboutme.php on line 234
  • [17-Oct-2019 12:54:12 UTC] PHP Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget in About_Me_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use 
    __construct()
    instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4508

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