Title: Author Popup
Author: karthikeyan_blaze
Published: <strong>August 22, 2011</strong>
Last modified: August 22, 2011

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Author Popup

 By [karthikeyan_blaze](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karthikeyan_blaze/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/author-popup.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-popup/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-popup/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-popup/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-popup/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/author-popup/)

## Description

This plugin does the same thing as the the_author tag, displays the author name,
only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link
the hidden layer(div) pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, 
plus gravatar photo (if author email is assigned with one) & social links from profile
custom fields.

 * xhtml,css valid.
 * Tested in FF, Opera, IE6/7, Chrome and Safari.
 * Comes with separate css file for easier modification.

Live demo of this plugin available at [author site](http://secureslash.com/opensource-world/wordpress-author-popup-plugin-karthikeyan/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * screenshot-1.png

## Installation

Installation is simple and should not take you more than 2 minutes.Step 1: Download“
Author Popup 1.0”

 1. Download “Author Popup 1.0”
 2. Extract and upload the entire author-popup directory to /wp-content/plugins/
 3. Open your theme’s single.php file /wp-content/themes/yourtheme/single.php Put this
    code the_author_posts_link(); inside class=”postmeta”
 4. Activate the plugin in wp-admin area.
 5. Additional Configurations:
 6. Author popup plugin displays user’s gravatar picture based upon his email address.
 7. If you have wordpress profile custom fields with the name of “twitter” & “facebook”
    then, that user’s twitter & facebook profiles will be linked inside popup.

label: twitter

value: twitter username

label: facebook

value: full facebook profile url

label: youtube

value: full channel url

## FAQ

Q: I am seeing unwanted space at right & left borders of popup?
 A:Your existing
css stile may override td,th,tbody tags’ paddings. So make sure the css file at /
plugins/author-popup/css/ap_style.css has below code

.popup td,th,tbody,table{padding:0;}

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Author Popup” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ karthikeyan_blaze ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karthikeyan_blaze/)
 *   [ karthikeyan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karthikeyan/)

[Translate “Author Popup” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/author-popup)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/author-popup/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/author-popup/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/author-popup/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/author-popup/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 * Tag
 * [author](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-popup/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ karthikeyan_blaze ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karthikeyan_blaze/)
 *   [ karthikeyan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karthikeyan/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/author-popup/)