Comments on: GitHub Badge for your Blog with 100% guarantee of more coolness

By: notarius

notarius — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:08:31 +0000

Cool badge! I want to install it too!

By: Erik Gregg

Erik Gregg — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:31:24 +0000

Just forked this into a Wordpress plugin. Works great on my end. Much easier to install.

http://github.com/hank/github-widget/tree/master

Let me know if you have any problems.

By: gugod

gugod — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:47:48 +0000

Hi, Dr Nic,

I have exact the same problem as what @Kevin Ballard described earlier. I looked it into it a little bit and I think its because line 88:

this.requestContent(url, “GitHubBadge.Launcher.loadedLibraries”);

If there’s already a jQuery 1.2.6 object in the page, this line eventually calls:

jQuery.getScript(url, “GitHubBadge.Launcher.loadedLibraries”)

And since jQuery.getScript accept callback as a function instead of a string, the error message shows up.

Therefore, before new version of launcher is released, my current work-around is to:

delete window.jQuery;

right before pulling in the launcher code.

I hope this helps you to solve the error

By: Leon Bogaert

Leon Bogaert — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:19:16 +0000

Cool badge!
I’ve created a wordpress widget for it: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/github-widget/

By: Pete On Rails » Blog Archive » GitHub Sidebar Plugin for Typo

Pete On Rails » Blog Archive » GitHub Sidebar Plugin for Typo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:48:38 +0000

[...] liked Dr Nic’s github badge so much that I wrapped a sidebar plugin around it for Typo users. You can get it from [...]

By: Pete On Rails » Blog Archive » GitHub Javascript Badge

Pete On Rails » Blog Archive » GitHub Javascript Badge — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:48:15 +0000

[...] Nic has released a javascript based badge for GitHub. While I generally like to keep my sidebars clean because most readers just ignore the cruft in [...]

By: Soleone

Soleone — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:34:42 +0000

Very good!

I installed it on my (typo-)blog, but without the plugin, because I did not know about it at that time, and it works wonderfully and looks nice!

greetings and kudos from germany

By: Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:35:31 +0000

Love the badge. I’ve wrapped it into a sidebar plugin for Typo users. It abstracts away the need to get the HTML correct for Typo.

Typo users can grab it here:

http://github.com/peteonrails/githubsidebar/tree/master

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:45:17 +0000

@Kevin Ballard [via] – I have seen that error before – when I had the OpenID plugin activated – something weird was going on with the jquery library. I don’t know what the problem was, but when I deactivated the openid plugin (which seems to use jquery itself) then the openid issue disappeared and the badge worked fine. I noticed this on my local machine’s dev install of wordpress when I just installed 2.5.1, and realised i had the wpopenid plugin activated on the dev machine, and not on production. Perhaps something similar is happening?

The badge will only load jQuery and jquery.template.js if they haven’t been loaded elsewhere on the page. So if something else is loading a dodgy jquery file, then “jquery” variable is probably defined already, so the badge doesn’t attempt to load its jquery file.

If you want to leave the badge installed on your blog, I’ll have a look at it.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:40:48 +0000

@Greg [via] – the jquery bundle was created by someone else; I think my only contribution was pushing it to github