Changes to Post Avatar include:
- Compatibility with WordPress 2.5
- Option to include avatars in feeds
- Basic navigation effects for images
- Fixed javascript so avatar display works in IE 6+
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Post Avatar 1.2.4
March 31, 2008 – 5:56 pm
just a test
Hey, I’ve been using your plugin for a while now, so I’m glad to see it’s been updated. Great job!
So glad to see you’ve upgraded this for v2.5!
I’m having just a little trouble: I’ve applied the call to the function within the Loop on my posts on my current template, and have disabled the “Show avatar in post?” option, but I don’t see avatars getting applied automatically to my posts.
If I go in and edit each post’s avatar setting manually though, then the avatars appear.
What I’m trying to do is enable the plug-in to automatically assign avatars on hundreds of posts in a multi-author blog, by scanning and then matching avatar images in wp-content/avatars/ to the author name in each post. Can you please confirm that the plug-in can be used for mass avatars assignments in this way, and if so, let me know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks so much!
I see the problem that you’re having and no you can’t use the post
avatar plugin for mass avatar assignments. The post avatar plugin is
intended to let you choose a particular image for each post.
But the effect you’re trying to achieve can be done quite easily.
For example you have the following users:
vix
nancy
chris
and inside your wp-content/avatars you have images named after each
author like this:
vix.jpg
nancy.jpg
chris.jpg
You can have a code like within The Loop:
<?php$post_author = get_the_author_login();
if($post_author != "") {
$image_url = get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-content/avatars/' .
$post_author . '.jpg';
echo '<div class="author_avatar"><img src="'.$image_url.'" alt="'.
get_the_title().'" border="0" /></div>';
}
?>
What it does is to get the author’s login name (vix) and then create
the html display to show the image. So if I make a post the html will
look like
<div class=”author_avatar”><img
src=”http://mysite.com/wp-content/avatars/vix.jpg” alt=”My Post Title”
border=”0″ /></div>
Very cool, this is almost working. I’m just finding that the posts’ ALT text is appearing, so the images aren’t being found correctly, because of naming conventions.
My avatars are named like this:
firstname-lastname.jpg
but the authors’ display names are like this:
Firstname Lastname
ah nevermind, one small edit got it working. nice, flexible… thanks again for all the help!!!
Hi there! I love the plugin, and just upgraded to 2.4. (I didn’t realize, before, that it wasn’t in the WP plugin directory and therefore doesn’t tell me when there’s a new version.)
I’ve been getting an error for a while now, every time I save or publish a post. I was hoping that the new version might fix it, but there’s been no change. The avatar assigned to the post shows up, then:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/20/d162322745/htdocs/technomom/wp-content/plugins/post-avatar/gkl-postavatar.php:68) in /homepages/20/d162322745/htdocs/technomom/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 689
I’m running WP 2.5 on an Apache server. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Cyn
Hey there. Having a small problem. Am using both current versions of WordPress and your avatar plugin. However, I did something somewhere - not sure what - and now my postavatars are no longer showing up inline with my posts. If you go to my site, you can see they’re sitting on their own line. What can I do to fix this?
(one thing I did do was customize the file to “no border” around the avatar.)
I am having the same issue with the avatar on it’s own line instead of the text wrapping around it…I’ll be watching for a response to your question =o) I did NOT change the border so it is likely unrelated to that! =o)
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Wonderful plugin!
I’ve got one HUGE question…
Is there anyway to set a default avatar for posts that haven’t been assigned an avatar?
Thanks!
¿cómo se sube la foto? ¿upload photo?
Hi, I just updated to wordpress 2.6 and this great plugin doesnt seem to work
It works find using the template thing and having it coded onto save archive.php. My problem is that on my website I use both.
There is no option on the write post to add a thumbnail in 2.6 it seems. Any ideas why?
I dont know what I was talking about but it doesnt work with no template thing either. It just doesnt seem to work on 2.6,
thanks for your superb plug-in! it’s exactly what i was searching for
still a question thou: is it possible to assign a certain avatar to a user’s old posts?
i have about 135 old posts written from before installing your plugin. while 135 may seem not much comparing to some blogs, it’s definitly too much to edit each of them.
thanks again!
fukiburi
Hi, I uploaded everything, and activated the plug in. But I cannot find the “Post Avatar” page anywhere. I looked in Manage, and in Settings, but it does not show up in my admin panel. Is this because I use wordpress 2.6? What is the problem?
Is there any chance this could be updated for 2.6?
Whenever I post an update on my site, I get the following error message:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tblwrest/public_html/wp-content/plugins/post-avatar/gkl-postavatar.php:68) in /home/tblwrest/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 390
I’ve checked gkl-postavatar.php at line 68 for extra white space and I don’t see any problems.
Help?