As I am slowly developing a new plugin, Genesis Simple Authorbox, I realized that I should just release parts to the community that I believe would be beneficial. Follow these simple steps to incorporate the Authorbox Shortcode.

1. Download the Genesis Simple Authorbox Shortcode: [download id="6"]
2. Upload it to your Child Theme folder
3. Add the following PHP Code to your functions.php file:
   [php]require_once( CHILD_DIR.'/genesis-author-box-shortcode.php' );[/php]

Now you can use [genauthorbox] to produce the Genesis Authorbox anywhere you'd like. This is also perfect for Genesis Child Theme developers using do_shortcode().

Attributes

[genauthorbox] takes a few attributes. They are:

• before: Text/markup to place before the authorbox; default: <div class="author-box">
• after: Text/markup to place after the authorbox; default: </div>
• context: Context of the authorbox; default: '' NOTE: don't use this unless you are comfortable with it
• title: Title of the authorbox; default: "About First Last Name" (e.g., get_the_author())
• description: The author description/Biographical Info from Your Profile; default: (empty)
• gclass: Adds a class to the gravatar img; default: alignleft
• galt: Adds ability to provide an Alt Tag to the gravatar img; default: (empty)
• gsize: Adds ability to resize gravatar image; default: 70
• gemail: Fetch gravatar image by email (only changes the avatar & does not change the author information [e.g., title, description]); default: get_the_author_meta('email')
• userid: Overrides gemail, title, & description with the default user's (title: About First Last; description: biographical info; gemail: user's email); default: (empty)

Example

[genauthorbox title="About Mr. Starbucks" Description="I am a hopeless Starbucks addict, freelance web designer..." gsize=72 galt="not me" gemail="[email protected]"]

Nathan Rice wrote a simple but excellent plugin called the Social Profiles Widget. I love the simplicity and only wanted to add one feature, the ability to quickly add my own icons by dumping a folder with the other social profiles folders. So this required changing the code. Because I have not received permission from Nathan Rice to update and contribute to his plugin, I'll share it here. Download: [download id="4"]

[php]<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Social Profiles Widget
Plugin URI: http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/social-profiles-widget
Description: This plugin/widget allows you to insert social profile icons into your sidebar via a widget.
Version: 1.1.1
Author: Nathan Rice
Author URI: http://www.nathanrice.net/

This plugin is released under the GPLv2 license. The images packaged with this plugin are the property of
their respective owners, and do not, necessarily, inherit the GPLv2 license.
*/
/*
Slightly modified by Travis Smith, https://wpsmith.net, to allow for additional icon folders to be uploaded. Simply upload custom folder to the images folder. Be sure to name your icons [SOCIAL]_32x32.* and [SOCIAL]_48x48.* [SOCIAL]=Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Feed, Flickr, Linkedin, Myspace, Stumbleupon, Twitter (e.g., Twitter_32x32.png)
*/
/**
* Register the Widget
*/
add_action('widgets_init', 'social_profiles_widget_register');
function social_profiles_widget_register() {
register_widget('Social_Profiles_Widget');
}

/**
* The Widget Class
*/
if ( !class_exists('Social_Profiles_Widget') ) {
class Social_Profiles_Widget extends WP_Widget {

function Social_Profiles_Widget() {
$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'social-profiles', 'description' => __('Displays Social Profile links as icons', 'spw') );
$this->WP_Widget( 'socialprofiles', __('Social Profiles', 'spw'), $widget_ops );
}

var $plugin_imgs_url;

function spw_fields_array( $instance = array() ) {

$this->plugins_imgs_url = plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) . 'images/';

return array(
'feedburner' => array(
'title' => __('RSS/Feedburner URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Feed_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Feed_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('RSS', 'spw')
),
'twitter' => array(
'title' => __('Twitter URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Twitter_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Twitter_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Twitter', 'spw')
),
'facebook' => array(
'title' => __('Facebook URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Facebook_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Facebook_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Facebook', 'spw')
),
'linkedin' => array(
'title' => __('Linkedin URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Linkedin_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Linkedin_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Linkedin', 'spw')
),
'youtube' => array(
'title' => __('YouTube URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Youtube_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Youtube_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Youtube', 'spw')
),
'flickr' => array(
'title' => __('Flickr URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Flickr_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Flickr_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Flickr', 'spw')
),
'delicious' => array(
'title' => __('Delicious URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Delicious_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Delicious_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Delicious', 'spw')
),
'stumbleupon' => array(
'title' => __('StumbleUpon URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Stumbleupon_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Stumbleupon_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('StumbleUpon', 'spw')
),
'digg' => array(
'title' => __('Digg URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Digg_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Digg_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('Digg', 'spw')
),
'myspace' => array(
'title' => __('MySpace URL', 'spw'),
'img' => sprintf( '%s/Myspace_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), esc_attr( $instance['size'] ) ),
'img_widget' => sprintf( '%s/Myspace_%s.png', $this->plugins_imgs_url . esc_attr( $instance['icon_set'] ), '48x48' ),
'img_title' => __('MySpace', 'spw')
),
);
}

function widget($args, $instance) {

extract($args);

$instance = wp_parse_args($instance, array(
'title' => '',
'icon_set' => 'default',
'size' => '48x48'
) );

echo $before_widget;

if ( !empty( $instance['title'] ) )
echo $before_title . $instance['title'] . $after_title;

foreach ( $this->spw_fields_array( $instance ) as $key => $data ) {
if ( !empty ( $instance[$key] ) ) {
printf( '<a href="%s"><img src="%s" alt="%s" /></a>', esc_url( $instance[$key] ), esc_url( $data['img'] ), esc_attr( $data['img_title'] ) );
}
}

echo $after_widget;

}

function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
return $new_instance;
}

function dir_list($d){
foreach(array_diff(scandir($d),array('.','..')) as $f) {
if(is_dir($d.'/'.$f)) {
$l[]=$f;
}
}
return $l;
}

function form($instance) {
$dir = WP_PLUGIN_DIR.'/social-profiles-widget/images';
$imagefolders = $this->dir_list($dir);
$instance = wp_parse_args($instance, array(
'title' => '',
'icon_set' => 'default',
'size' => '48x48'
) );
?>

<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e('Title', 'spw'); ?>:</label><br />
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['title']; ?>" style="width:95%;" />
</p>

<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('icon_set'); ?>"><?php _e('Icon Set', 'spw'); ?>:</label>
<select id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('icon_set'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('icon_set'); ?>">
<?php
foreach ($imagefolders as $key => $folder) :
?>
<option style="padding-right:10px;" value="<?php echo $folder; ?>" <?php selected($folder, $instance['icon_set']); ?>><?php _e($folder, 'spw'); ?></option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>
</p>

<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('size'); ?>"><?php _e('Icon Size', 'spw'); ?>:</label>
<select id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('size'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('size'); ?>">
<option style="padding-right:10px;" value="32x32" <?php selected('32x32', $instance['size']); ?>><?php _e('Small', 'spw'); ?> (32px)</option>
<option style="padding-right:10px;" value="48x48" <?php selected('48x48', $instance['size']); ?>><?php _e('Large', 'spw'); ?> (48px)</option>
</select>
</p>

<p><?php _e('Enter the URL(s) for your various social profiles below. If you leave a profile URL field blank, it will not be used.', 'spw'); ?></p>

<?php

foreach ( $this->spw_fields_array( $instance ) as $key => $data ) {
echo '<p>';
printf( '<img style="float: left; margin-right: 3px;" src="%s" title="%s" />', $data['img_widget'], $data['img_title'] );
printf( '<label for="%s"> %s:</label>', esc_attr( $this->get_field_id($key) ), esc_attr( $data['title'] ) );
printf( '<input id="%s" name="%s" value="%s" style="%s" />', esc_attr( $this->get_field_id($key) ), esc_attr( $this->get_field_name($key) ), esc_url( $instance[$key] ), 'width:65%;' );
echo '</p>' . "n";
}

}
}}[/php]