{"id":106545,"date":"2012-12-28T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=106545"},"modified":"2012-12-27T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T23:26:54","slug":"create-and-display-an-actual-business-card-on-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/create-and-display-an-actual-business-card-on-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Create and Display an Actual Business Card on Your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the world has changed in many ways since the rise of the web, but some things are so iconic that they\u2019ve stayed the same even if they don&#8217;t really make sense in a digital environment.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, coupons. Even though it would be physically impossible to cut them out of a website, many still choose to show a dotted line around online coupons as if you could. That dotted line triggers something deep inside many people. It means \u201cDEAL\u201d or \u201cDISCOUNT!\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"businesscards\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/businesscards.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"551\" height=\"368\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Business cards, like coupons, have been such a part of our offline lives for so long that it\u2019s almost a little strange not having them on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now there\u2019s a plugin to fix that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Business Card Plugin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/business-card-by-wisdmlabs\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business Card by Wisdmlabs<\/a> plugin will let you create your own digital business card right in the back end of your site.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick one I made up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106547\" title=\"business-card\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/business-card.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"551\" height=\"341\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setting up your card is easy to do. Once the plugin is installed and activated, go to the settings page and simply fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose colors for the card\u2019s background and text. You can also upload a logo for your business or a picture of yourself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106548\" title=\"settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/settings.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"551\" height=\"408\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\nDisplaying the Card<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Once you have things the way you like them, you can then display the card where you like by inserting the shortcode [visiting_card].<\/p>\n<p>If your sidebar is large enough, you could insert the shortcode into a text widget and have it appear there, as in the example below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-grid cgrid-row\">\n<div class=\"cgrid-col cgrid-col-span-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106556\" title=\"sidebar\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"551\" height=\"279\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can also insert the card into a template file by inserting the following code where you like.<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;?php echo do_shortcode(\u2018[visiting_card]'); ?&gt;<\/pre>\n\n<p>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ctoverdrive\/4420897153\/\" target=\"_blank\">ctoverdrive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plugin catches people\u2019s attention and adds some offline flair to your site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":106546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-106545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216507,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106545\/revisions\/216507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106545"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=106545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}