Title: Simple Blog Authors Widget
Author: Stanko Metodiev
Published: <strong>July 18, 2011</strong>
Last modified: April 24, 2016

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# Simple Blog Authors Widget

 By [Stanko Metodiev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/metodiew/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-blog-authors-widget.1.5.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-blog-authors-widget/)

## Description

This plugin will give you a simple widget that you can use to display your blog’s
authors, including their gravatars and post counts.

The widget uses universal widget styling, so should fit perfectly into any WordPress
theme.

Features

 1. Blog Authors Widget
 2. Widget Title Option
 3. Option to enable author gravatars
 4. Option to enable author post counts

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Dashboard Widgets
 * [[
 * Front End Widget List
 * [[
 * Front End Widget Dropdown

## Installation

 1. Upload the ‘simple-blog-authors-widget’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Simple Blog Authors Widget is gone after I updated to version 1.0.3?

The class name was changed, so you should add the widget again from Appearance =
> Widgets.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Blog Authors Widget” is open source software. The following people have 
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Stanko Metodiev ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/metodiew/)

[Translate “Simple Blog Authors Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-blog-authors-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-blog-authors-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-blog-authors-widget/)
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## Changelog

#### (24.04.2016)

 * Update Tested up to: 4.5
 * Improve i18n strings anf functions
 * Add Bulgarian translations

#### (06.12.2015)

 * Update Tested up to: 4.4

#### (09.08.2015)

 * Version updated to 1.5.0
 * Move all functions to Class and update the OOP structure.
 * Fix “Deprecating PHP4 style constructors in WordPress 4.3”.
    - See: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/02/deprecating-php4-style-constructors-
      in-wordpress-4-3/
 * remove console.log from the main.js file
 * Add SBAW_VERSION define variable
 * Add SBAW_TEXT_DOMAIN define variable

#### (26.10.2014)

 * Version was changed to 1.4.0
 * Added option to display authors in dropdown menu

#### (05.06.2014)

 * Version was changed to 1.0.3
 * The plugin authorship was changed from Pippin Williamson to Stanko Metodiev.
 * Fixed some notices for undefined variables.
 * Fixed a bug that made it so you could not disable gravatars
 * Only authors with at least one post are listed now
 * Only pulls in users with a level greater than 0

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **70+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [authors](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/authors/)[simple](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/simple/)
   [widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)[widgets](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-blog-authors-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Stanko Metodiev ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/metodiew/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-blog-authors-widget/)

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