Signature Manager Plugin for WordPress
By Glenn | August 29th, 2008 | Published in Projects, WordPress Plugins | 49 Comments
Description
This simple little plugin gives each author on your blog the ability to setup a signature and to include it at the bottom of their posts.
The admin screen gives each author the ability to format their signature (a text area with HTML formatting enabled) and to indicate whether or not they want the signature on or off by default.
Regardless of the default setting, your authors may toggle the inclusion of the signature to ‘on’ or ‘off’ for each individual post at the bottom of the Write Post and Edit Post screens.
Download:
You may download the latest from the WP-Plugin repository: Get it here.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am (#)
[...] Signature Manager es un plugin que te permite agregar una firma personalizada a tus posts, pueden estar formateadas con HTML pudiendo agregar enlaces, negrista, cursiva y todo lo que HTML permita. Además podemos elegir si queremos que salga en todos los posts o sólo en algunos. [...]
September 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pm (#)
I can’t believe I went looking for something like this and found a post from you timed just 40 minutes earlier in WordPress forum.
Thank you.
Kat
September 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm (#)
Isn’t it great how that works! Let me know if you have any trouble with it. I haven’t had any feedback yet.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm (#)
[...] Signature Manager es una extensión con la que podremos añadir una firma personal a nuestros artículos de WordPress, e incluso formatearlas con HTML, agregando enlaces, negritas, cursivas y todo lo que este tipo de códigos permitan. Otra opción a elegir es si queremos que salga en todos los posts o en algunos en particular. [...]
September 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm (#)
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September 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm (#)
just wondering how each author is supposed to manage his own signature, if the signature is set up under the settigns panel?
Is the signature then still saved individually saved for each author?
wouldn’t it make more sense to place the signature inside each author’s profile for editing? Thats where a user would go looking for such a feature
September 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm (#)
[...] Signature Manager es un plugin que te permite agregar una firma personalizada a tus posts, pueden estar formateadas con HTML pudiendo agregar enlaces, negrista, cursiva y todo lo que HTML permita. Además podemos elegir si queremos que salga en todos los posts o sólo en algunos. [...]
September 4th, 2008 at 11:00 pm (#)
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September 5th, 2008 at 4:56 am (#)
can I add a picture? Like my actual signature like at the end of a letter. You know like my JOHN HANCOCK??
Thanks.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:34 am (#)
HI… I like this plugin and would like to include an image as part of the signature. Can this be done through the html markup in the options area? If so what does the code look like?
Thanks in advance for the reply.
Rod
September 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am (#)
@ovidiu: That’s a great idea. I’ll try to roll that into the next version – although I’m not sure when that will be.
@Cliff and Rod: Yes, this is possible through HTML markup. You would have to upload your picture to the internet somewhere and then reference it like <img src=”http:website.com/path/to/image.jpg” alt=”My Signature” />
September 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am (#)
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm (#)
Great plugin!
I think I found a bug, though.
In the latest version of WordPress, when I enable the plugin, and attempt to modify a page (not post), I get an error message saying:
“Are you sure you want to do this?
please try again”
I haven’t looked through the code, so I don’t know where the problem is, but when I disable the plugin, I am able to edit pages just fine (I haven’t tried it with posts).
Just thought I would let you know,
Thanks!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:21 pm (#)
@Nathan: Sorry about that! I just committed the update to wordpress. It should notify you in the next couple of hours via the WordPress admin panel. If your anxious though, uncomment lines 157 and 179. That was done for my testing and I forgot to update before committing. Thanks for the heads up!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm (#)
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
September 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm (#)
Signature Manager Plugin for WordPress…
This simple little plugin gives each author on your blog the ability to setup a signature and to include it at the bottom of their posts….
September 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am (#)
Ah, that seemed to fix the problem.
Great plugin you wrote!
One thing that would be totally awesome is if we had the ability to have separate signatures for the RSS feed and for posts displayed the usual way.
I’m going to be needing that functionality shortly, and if someone else writes the plugin to spare me the trouble of doing it, all the better!
Thanks again for writing this!
September 6th, 2008 at 10:41 am (#)
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September 6th, 2008 at 3:42 pm (#)
The only user that can use the setting option on the admin page is an editor. the users do not see the setting option on the admin page.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:21 pm (#)
@Nathan: Good idea! Next major release maybe.
@Frank and @ovidiu: Moved management to the Profile menu
September 7th, 2008 at 12:47 am (#)
I have installed the plugin, went to the signature settings, added my signature which I can see in the preview. I set it to be on by default. I added a test post to see where the signature would appear, but I do not see the signature at the bottom of my last post. The others you may see below that are those that I placed in the posts themselves. What am I doing wrong?
September 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm (#)
Thanks for this plugin.
But it dosent show up under the post for me.
Do you have any code that i can put in the template directly and try?
September 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm (#)
Hi…great plugin! I got a weird problem though. It works wonders for my test site…but for my actual site the signature won´t show up. And the kikcer is that both sites use excactly the same themes, with excactly the same plugins (and versions of plugins) installed.
What on earth could be the issue here?
Cheers
September 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm (#)
I should perhaps note that the sites are on different servers though. But I guess that does not matter whatsoever.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm (#)
I am having the same problem as Cemal Ekin
September 27th, 2008 at 11:44 am (#)
I have corrected the problem that prevented signatures from showing up on certain server configurations. You may download the new version from the wordpress plugin directory linked above.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am (#)
Hi, this is not in line with the plugin, but i noticed on your header that there’s a widget there on the upper right side, and it’s all the to the right. I want to know where to insert the code that it will stay on the right (since i have my blog title on the left). Thanks in advance. Sorry for the offtopic question.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:32 pm (#)
Thanks for the plugin!
But it seems like I also have the problem with the signature not showing up under the actual post. Preview looks fine though.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm (#)
By the way, I am using v1.3.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am (#)
what do i have to change in order to put this signature after post title ?
February 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm (#)
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March 5th, 2009 at 7:41 pm (#)
When I am at the admin site, logged in as administrator, I click on “Signature Options”. I enter “– %LOGIN%” to create a generic signature for all users, click the “On” radio button. So far, so good. Now, when I click the Update button, all text in the textbox disappears! When I create a post, no signature is found. If I repeat the process, and just put “foo” in the text box, I get the same result. How do I get a signature out of this plugin?
March 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm (#)
Is there a way to retro-actively have the signatures applied to all previous posts? I just discovered this fabulous plugin, which will be awesome for sites that I want to syndicate with RSS (to ensure I have backlinks!).
But I’ve got some sites with hundreds of posts. I don’t want to have to ‘Update’ each one individually, if possible.
Is there a hack/workaround/tweak, or any other method to tickle the plugin and get it to apply to all posts?
Thanks!
March 10th, 2009 at 12:00 am (#)
One more thought….
I am using WP-O-Matic to import some feeds occasionally. I’d like to add my sig to the bottom of those posts, too…but for some reason it is not, by default.
Any thoughts?
March 12th, 2009 at 2:04 am (#)
Hello,
can I put a signature in a comment, too ? I did not find this feature, perhaps I just overlooked it ?
Thanks,
Nadir
March 16th, 2009 at 4:27 pm (#)
When I save a post with the signature, if the post has a page break in it the signature appears on the home page after the break, but then appears in the correct place when you click thru to the post. Is there a way to get it not to appear on the home page after the break?
March 30th, 2009 at 10:40 am (#)
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April 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm (#)
Great plugin, just what the project I’m building needed. However, I have a question and need some help. We show excerpts on the category page using the “more” tag. But the signature shows for all of the posts that we’ve updated since installing the plugin on this category page. We don’t want the sigs repeated like this.
I see in the code that the plugin is inserting the sig after
I’m not sure why it makes the sig repeat on a category page. How can I suppress this?
See this page for what’s happening, first two entries have been updated to add the sig: http://www.discoverwinningways.com/topics/career-prep
May 1st, 2009 at 11:52 am (#)
I love this addon, but I have one problem with it. Would it be possible to have the signature only appear on the post view, and not on the Home Page?
May 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am (#)
We’re in the process of updating this plugin. Look for it towards the end of June.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm (#)
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July 5th, 2009 at 12:30 am (#)
… It appears to only work with Posts written after installation of the Plugin !
A trap for the unwary !!
July 9th, 2009 at 6:38 am (#)
Hi,
Does this plugin work for 2.8.x Wordpress ?
Thanks.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:14 am (#)
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August 12th, 2009 at 8:02 pm (#)
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August 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 am (#)
Smart signature With FT Signature Manager…
FT signature manager is simple plugin that allow admin to include his pre defined personal signature automatically. just like footnote for every post.
You can create any text as closing pharagraph at every post or you can make it’s as a l…
October 18th, 2009 at 4:59 am (#)
Hi,
This plugin doesn’t work for 2.8.x Wordpress.
Will it work in the future? Are you working on it?
Thanks
January 5th, 2010 at 6:37 am (#)
[...] I have not seen a plugin specifically for this yet but there may be one or it is a perfect idea for a coder to create. I prefer to add it directly into the theme code. If you are not comfortable editing the theme you could add it as part of your post using the FT Signature plugin. [...]