Author Box for Octopress

Author Box is a simple Octopress plugin that could display more author information below every single post.

You can configure your authors information if there are multiple authors.

Feature

• Easily attach author info box with YAML.
• Use Gravatar image url as a author pic.

Usage

1. Put the plugin file: author_box.rb into plugins folder.

• Put author.yml into your Octopress root path and add your author's information.
• Put author.html into source/_layouts for rendering author box below your posts
• Edit _style.scss to adjust the style of author box.
• Add or change the author: Your Name to the metadata on a post. The author name should be exactly matched to one of authors with author.yml.

Example for author.yml

linyiru:
    name: Lawrence Lin
    twitter: linyiru
    email: hi@linyiru.com
    blog: https://blog.linyiru.com/
    description: "Hello World!"

Example for a post

---
layout: post
title: "Octopress"
date: 2011-09-30 13:48
comments: true
categories: [octopress]
author: deduce
---

Example Stylesheets(in SCSS format)

.octopress-authorbox {
    border-top: 4px solid #333;
    background-color: #eee;

    .author-pic {
        float: left;
        margin: 8px;
    }

    .author-about {
        float: left;
        margin: 5px;
        padding: 5px;

        ul {
            list-style: none;

            li {
                display: inline;
                margin-left: 5px;
            }
        }

    }
}

.octopress-authorbox:after {
    content: ".";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    clear: both;
    visibility: hidden;
}

TODO

• More easier setting of this plugin(maybe it would be a install script & git submodule as a octopress plugin)
• More posts of this author link and its generator

Author

• Lawrence Yi-Ru Lin, @linyiru

License

Licensed under the MIT: www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php