Widget Shortcodes for Github

Lightweight widget shortcodes to display GitHub buttons and gists on your blog. Includes shortcode for embedding GitHub hosted gists and buttons for:

• Follow
• Watch
• Star
• Fork
• Download
• Issue

The plugin implements ntkme’s ‘github-buttons’ and GitHub’s gist display as shortcodes.

Usage

GitHub Follow Button:
Add the [Github_User_Button user='JBarnden' size='large' show_count='true'] shortcode in your content and replace JBarnden with the desired GitHub username.

GitHub Repo Buttons:
Add the [Github_Repo_Button user='JBarnden' repo='wp-github-widgets' size='large' show_count='true'] shortcode in your content, replacing JBarnden with the desired GitHub username and MyRepo with the desired repo belonging to the specified user.
You can set thetype attribtute to watch, star…