Steemit Widgets: Profile Widget Now With Cover Image

mkt (66) in steemdev • 7 years ago

I took the new cover image feature as a motivation to further improve my Steemit Website Plugin. You can now use the ${COVERIMAGE} placeholder to use the cover image in your profile template as a background for example. The demo implementation looks like this:

Pretty neat, huh? :D If you want to use this version right away, it's very simple.

Here is how:

1. Place an empty div in your website's HTML where you want the widget to appear.

<div id="steemit-profile"></div>

2. Place this code at the end of your HTML body, right before the closing `</body>` tag.

<script src="https://cdn.steemjs.com/lib/latest/steem.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://mktcode.github.io/steemit-widgets/assets/js/steemit-widgets.min.js"></script>
<script>
  steemitWidgets.profile({
    user: 'mkt',
    element: 'steemit-profile',
    template: '<article class="uk-comment"><header class="uk-comment-header uk-text-left" style="background: url(${COVERIMAGE}) center center; background-size: cover;"><div class="uk-comment-avatar" style="background: url(${IMAGE}) center center; background-size: cover; width: 50px; height: 50px; border-radius: 36px;"></div><h4 class="uk-comment-title"><a href="https://steemit.com/@${USER}">@${USER}</a> <div class="uk-badge uk-badge-notification">${REPUTATION}</div></h4><div class="uk-comment-meta"><a href="${WEBSITE}">${WEBSITE}</a><br>${ABOUT}</div></header><div class="uk-comment-body uk-text-center"><div class="uk-grid"><div class="uk-width-1-3"><b>${POSTCOUNT}</b><br><sup>Posts</sup></div><div class="uk-width-1-3"><b>${FOLLOWERS}</b><br><sup>Followers</sup></div><div class="uk-width-1-3"><b>${FOLLOWING}</b><br><sup>Following</sup></div><div class="uk-width-1-2 uk-text-small uk-text-left">Voting Power: ${VOTINGPOWER} %</div><div class="uk-width-1-2 uk-text-small uk-text-right"><i class="uk-icon-map-marker"></i> ${LOCATION}</div></div></div></article><style>#steemit-profile{border-radius:6px;max-width:360px;background:#fff;border:4px solid #4696e5}#steemit-profile .uk-comment-header{margin-bottom:5px;border:none;border-bottom-left-radius:0;border-bottom-right-radius:0}#steemit-profile .uk-comment-avatar{background-position:center center;background-size:cover;width:50px;height:50px}#steemit-profile .uk-comment-meta,#steemit-profile .uk-comment-meta a,#steemit-profile .uk-comment-title a{color:#fff}#steemit-profile .uk-comment-body{color:#999;font-size: 18px;line-height: 24px}</style>',
    reputationPrecision: 1
  });
</script>

Obviously you have to replace 'mkt' with your username.

3. I used the UIKit CSS framework, so you have to add it to your `<head>`.

<head>
  ...
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/uikit/2.27.4/css/uikit.almost-flat.min.css" />
</head>

UIKit is fully prefixed, so you can include it without messing up your existing styles. Maybe I decouple the demos from UIKit and use only custom styles in the future.

4. Checkout the documentation to see what more you can do with my plugin.

You can display not only profile information but also whole blogs or feeds and the new, hot and trending pages for a given tag or just all posts. The HTML output is completely customizable.

jQuery

The last time I wrote about it it was still a pure jQuery plugin. I decided to decouple it for those who don't use jQuery, while still supporting the syntax for those who do.

// standalone
steemitWidgets.profile({
  element: 'element-id',
  ...
});

// jQuery
$('#element-id').steemitProfile({...});

Upcoming

display whole posts, including comments
embed code generator with styled templates for easy copy/paste implementation
...?

If you have any more ideas, wishes, criticism, problems, whatever... please share in the comments! I'd really love to see some of you trying it out and giving me some feedback.

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7 years ago by mkt (66)

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transisto (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

Awesome, sorry for missing your post on #steemdev, upvoted some of your comments to show my appreciation.

Also added a listing to both of your tools to SteemTools.com

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you! You helped me grow so much already! It really feels like finally arriving here on steemit. It has been one of my biggest dreams for quite some time now to develop free and open source software and still get my rent payed somehow... without struggling and bargaining with contractors or bosses. It really seems that steemit has the potential to actually make this happen. You know... I lost my job as a developer due to a longer period of illness three month ago. Back then I didn't know this would be the best thing that could happen to me. I almost gave up programming in general because I just hated the business behind it... steemit pulled me back in.

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jerrybanfield (74) · 7 years ago

@mkt this is awesome for any of us that have a website as I do! Thank you very much for this! I am sharing this today on my upvotable 21 post!

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fknmayhem (70) · 7 years ago

Great job, thank you for the time and dedication invested in creating this for the community.

I only have one (minor) niggle. Looking at both default profile widget designs, I struggle to find anything mentioning 'steemit'. They seem rather headless as such, because, of course, we shouldn't assume that everybody knows what they represent.

A small logo in the bottom would be a neat branding and recognition option.

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you for your appreciation and your input! :)
I thought about putting a steemit logo somewhere but in the end I wanted it to be up to the user if there is one or not. You can of course put a logo somewhere yourself because the HTML output is completely up to you. But since there is the generator now, I could easily add this as an option 'show steemit logo' in the future. If you know JS and HTML a bit you can even do it yourself and submit a pull request.

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finleyexp (60) · 7 years ago

Super cool. I wonder if this'll work with Blogger. I tried iframes and embed without success. I guess I'll let you know! Thanks @mkt!

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

you mean blogger.com ?

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finleyexp (60) · 7 years ago

Yeah. I run finleyexperience.com on Blogger (since like 2008). I'm custom building and hosting new sites with firebase.

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

I just tried blogger. Never used it before. You can switch to HTML mode when editing a post and just paste the widget code. You can see an example here: https://steemitwidgets.blogspot.de/2017/08/steemitcom-widgets-on-you-blogger-blog.html

You can also add "Sidebar Gadgets" of type "HTML/Javascript" in the Layout settings. It works to. I display my recent steemit posts this way on the left hand side of the example page.

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

Can you show me how you're trying to implement it, so I can help you better?

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finleyexp (60) · 7 years ago

Oh, snaps!! Thanks for checking it out! Just went over to your github docs! Sweet! I've got some reading to do. :D I think you just solved that problem. Rock on, @mkt!

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

Great! :) Just ask if you need any more help.

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eco-alex (73) · 7 years ago

very cool mkt! i didnt know you can do this.. top tech tips!

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you! In fact I am actually a web-developer. However... it seems until now noone is using my plugin. But this doesn't keep me from further improving it and using it myself. :D