About Me widget
Add an "About Me" widget to your sidebar.
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·200 active installs·Updated 15 years agoAs of April 2026, About Me widget is a WordPress bio plugin with 200 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP MyLinks.
1/51 reviews
200active installs
64K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
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 curs…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
2.2
- Fixed the about me widget admin form button binding on admin widgets screen to make it work in WP 3.1 +
Be aware that this uses an even nastier trick to bind every click event of all widgets on the widget form in order to find out if the tinyMCE editor has been clicked and as such probably makes it incompatible with any other widgets that override the widget save ajax event.
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