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

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 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

deduce:
    name: Lawrence Lin
    twitter: deduce
    email: deduce@gmail.com
    blog: http://www.inside.com.tw/
    description: "Founder of Inside.com.tw"

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, a.k.a @deduce

License

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

Saltbox/octopress-authorbox