Title: GitHub Gists Sidebar Widget
Author: Andrew Norcross
Published: <strong>24 decembre 2011</strong>
Last modified: 8 julhet 2015

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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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# GitHub Gists Sidebar Widget

 Per [Andrew Norcross](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gist-sidebar-widget.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gist-sidebar-widget/)

## Descripcion

A sidebar widget to display your public gists from GitHub. Allows for optional display
of creation date and link back to your GitHub profile page. Uses v3 of the GitHub
API.

### Potential Enhancements

I plan on including the Transients API in an upcoming release…once I figure out 
exactly how they work. Otherwise, feel free to suggest.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The plugin options displayed within the widget.

## Installacion

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload the ‘gist-sidebar-widget’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Drag the widget to your sidebar and input your username, number of gists, and options
    for displaying creation date and a link back to your GitHub profile.

## FAQ

  What does this do?

It displays your public gists from GitHub on the sidebar, linking to each of them
on GitHub.

  They look kind of bland. Can I style them?

Sure can. There are four classes to look at to add to you CSS.

 * Each list item `<li>` has the class `gist_item`
 * Each link within the `<li>` has the class `gist_link`
 * The optional creation date is wrapped in a `<span>` with the class `gist_date`
 * The optional link to your GitHub profile is in a `<p>` with the class `github_link`

  Is that it?

Pretty much, yeah.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“GitHub Gists Sidebar Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Norcross ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

[Translate “GitHub Gists Sidebar Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gist-sidebar-widget)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Update old PHP4 constructor

#### 1.1

 * Added username to transient variable to allow multiple widget use.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Mèta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **11 annadas ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [Gist](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gist/)[Github](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/github/)
   [widget](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://oci.wordpress.org/plugins/gist-sidebar-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Norcross ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/norcross/)

## Support

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