Gabfire Widget Pack Plugin

The Gabfire Widget Pack is a feature-packed plugin that adds the most commonly used widgets to your site. Rather than having to download several plugins by various authors, this plugin bundles together the most popular widgets.

It is maintained by the folks over at http://www.gabfirethemes.com

Below are the steps required to install, activate, and configure the Gabfire Widget Pack.

Widget: Video Slider

Get most recent videos addedto your site and display it in a widget zone with a nicely formed slider

Widget: Simple Banner

A very easy way to add banners into widget zones.

Widget: Archive Search

Give your users the option to search to their heart’s content. This powerful widget provides 3 methods to search:

• By Archive Month
• By Category
• By Keyword using Google Search

This is great widget for content-heavy sites.

Widget: Search

Your visitors need a search function to explore your site. Luckily, this widget gives you two functional styles to choose from that can be placed into any widget zone.

• Set your label
• Set your style and background

Search is not dead!

Widget: Post Tabs

A sleek Ajax tabs widget that offers a convenient way to showcase your content. You can choose from 3 types of tabs:

• Recent Posts
• Recent Comments
• Popular Posts (based on tags)

In addition, the Post Tabs widget offers a light and dark color scheme, ability to show post meta details and avatars, and choose the number of posts to display.

Widget: Author Badge

Give credit where it’s due with this unique Author Badge that showcases the following details neatly: author’s bio, a link to their posts, as well as their social media pages.

• Author’s Bio
• Author’s Gravatar (if any)
• Author’s social media links
• Link to Author’s Posts

Author badge shows at single post and author pages only. This badge will not shown if Author bio is left empty. Go to User profile page to enter Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Author website URL details.

Widget: Related Posts

Enhance your site’s page views by adding related posts to your articles. This widget uses tags to identify related posts and provides you the option to display them with thumbnails, or as a list.

Widget: Text+ Widget

A slight twist on the original. This text widget gives you the ability to have an icon and button that links to any post or page of your choice.

For more details, visit Gabfire Themes.

You can install the Gabfire Widget Pack from your WordPress Dashboard or manually via FTP.

From WordPress Dashboard

Navigate to ‘Plugins -> Add New’ from your WordPress dashboard.

Search for Gabfire Widget Pack and install it.

Activate the plugin from Plugins menu.

Enable the widgets you wish to activate from Appearance -> Gabfire Widget Pack

Add any widget to your widget zone from Appearance -> Widgets and configure the widget options.

Manual Installation

Download gabfire-widget-pack.zip

Unzip

Upload the gabfire-widget-pack folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory (do not rename the folder)

Activate the plugin from Plugins menu.

Enable the widgets you wish to activate from ‘Appearance -> Gabfire Widget Pack’.

Add any widget to your widget zone from ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ and configure the widget options.

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   Widget: About Us

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   Widget: Archive Search

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   Widget: Author Badge

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   Widget: Text+

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   Widget: Widget options page

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   Widget: Recent or Popular Posts Widget

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   Widget: Post tabs

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   Widget: Related Posts Thumb

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   Widget: Search

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1.4.14
* Fix errors
* Fix JavaScript errors

1.4.12
* Update Constructor method for WP_Widget

1.4.11

• Fix image height on gabfire post tabs widget

1.4.7

• Remove gab_postmeta function

1.4.6

• Add About Us Widget

1.4.5

• Add missing images for Text+ Widget

1.4.4

• Fix search results pagination – search widget

1.4.3

• Social Icons Fix

1.4.2

• Fix width of post tabs widget

1.4.1

• Add missing files

1.4

• Video Slider Widget
• Simple Banner

1.3.18

• Image resize via CSS for Post Tabs widget

1.3.17

• jQuery – Remove Google CDN

1.3.16

• Updated Delicious link to https://delicious.com/ from to http://del.icio.us

1.3.15

• Removed reference to remote jQuery file

1.3.14

• Widget Ajax Tabs JS call update

1.3.13

• Minor bug fixes

1.3.12

• Minor bug fixes

1.3.11

• Fixes bug with created Gabfire Twitter Widget

1.3.10

• Minor Bug fixes

1.3.9

• Fixes Bug with recent tweets widget

1.3.8

• Fixes Bug with icon sizing and stabilization improvements

1.3.7

• Minor Bug Fixes

1.3.6

• Remove Myspace, add Instagram social icon

1.3.5

• Fixes bug with internationalization

1.3.4

• Fixes minor bug with twitter widget debug errors

1.3.3

• Sanitize widget input better

1.3.2

• Fix Linkedin Share URL
• Feedburner Widget: Extra style

1.3.1

• Display tweet links as hyperlinks

1.3

• Share items – new button alignment.
• Flickr widget https support= 1.2 =
• New Widget – Gabfire Recent Tweets
• Admin panel change

1.1.1

• Fix Twitter share box
• Add LinkedIn share box/button

1.1

• New Widget: Latest Tweets by Hashtag
• New Widget: Contact Us
• Widget Update: About widget – custom image display support

1.0.1

• Options panel alignment fix

1.0

• Initial release