=== Author Avatars List ===
Contributors: pbearne, bforchhammer
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Tags: Avatar, Author, BuddyPress, Comment, Editor, Image, Multisite, Photo, Picture, Profile, Shortcode, Random, Sidebar, Thumbnail, User, Widget, Wpmu
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 3.4.1
Stable tag: 1.6.1
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes.
== Description ==
This plugin makes it easy to *display lists of user avatars* on your (multiuser) blog. It also allows to *insert single avatars* for blog users or any email address into a post or page. (Great for displaying an image of someone you're talking about.)
Avatar lists can be inserted into your sidebar by adding a widget or into posts/pages by using a [shortcode](http://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/authoravatars-shortcode/). The plugin comes with a tinymce editor plugin which makes inserting shortcodes very easy.
Both shortcode and widget can be configured to...
* Show a custom title (widget only)
* Only show specific user groups and/or hide certain users
* Limit the number of users shown
* Change the sort order of users or show in random order
* Adjust the size of user avatars
* Optionally show a user's name or biography
* Show users from the current blog, all blogs or a selection of blogs (on WPMU/Multisite)
* Group users by their blog (when showing from multiple blogs), and show the blog name above each grouping (experimental feature).
* the shortcode can page the avatars for large sets add a page_size to the shortcode e.g. "page_size=30"
The plugin makes use of built in wordpress (core) functions to retrieve user information and get avatars.
Single user avatars can be inserted using the [show_avatar shortcode](http://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/show_avatar-shortcode/) and configured to...
* Adjust the size of the user avatar.
* Align the avatar left, centered or right.
Please report bugs and provide feedback in the [wordpress support forum](http://wordpress.org/tags/author-avatars?forum_id=10#postform).
**Plugin support:** As of April 2011, Ben is stepping down as maintainer and handing over ownership to Paul Bearne, who will provide support and drive the development of new features.
== Installation ==
1. Upload the `author-avatars` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
1. Enable and configure the widget as usual on the Design / Widgets page.
[Look at this page](https://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/authoravatars-shortcode/) to find out how to use the [authoravatars] shortcode.
You can find information for developers [on this page](http://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/developers-guide/).
== Screenshots ==
1. Very simple set up of the widget on an empty blog.
2. The Widget configuration panel.
3. Examples of what the [authoravatars] shortcode can do.
4. Shortcode helper available from the WYSIWYG editor on the edit post page.
5. List of users with name and biography
== Changelog ==
= 1.6.1 =
* Fixed a bug that stoped the loading of default CSS sheet for the plugin that I added a bug in in 1.6
= 1.6.0 =
* Added the option to link to BBpress profile in the link to the shortcode and generator user_link=bbpress_memberpage
* Fixed bug - the the shortcode generator was shown up in the tinyMCE edit if it was loaded on a page (BBpress forum posts) the popup was 404'ing so add a $pagenow != 'index.php' to make sure we are in the addmin section
* Fixed bug causing the RTL layout to break
= 1.5.1 =
* Added Hindi language (by Love Chandel: Outshine Solutions - http://outshinesolutions.com)
= 1.5 =
* Added Paging to the short code
* Added Romanian language (by Alexander Ovsov: Web Hosting Geeks - http://webhostinggeeks.com)
= 1.4 =
* Fix a bug in the js code for the short-code generator in the tinyMCE editor.
* It wasn't possible to set the show name / post count / biography options.
= 1.2 =
* Added Italian translation (by Nata Strazda)
= 1.1 =
* Added fix for buddypress which was using thumb instead of full versions of images.
* Added support for network admin area (new in WP 3.1)
* Added dutch translation by René (wpwebshop)
* Fixed bug with min_post_count in shortcode
= 1.0 =
* Fixed a number of styling issues
* Fixed bug with capabilities (Wordpress 3 multisite)
* Removed deprecated functions
= 0.9 =
* Fixed compatibility with WordPress 3.0 (and its new multisite feature)
* Fixed BuddyPress integration
* Added feature to show avatars of commentators
* Added feature to sort by firstname or lastname
= 0.8 =
* Added feature to show a user's biography next to the avatar
* Added feature to limit shown users by a minimum number of posts
* Added feature to show a user's number of posts
* Added Italian translation (by Gianni Diurno)
= 0.7.4 =
* Fixed javascript issues with widget settings page and shortcode wizard in WordPress 2.8
* Fixed support for translations
* Added German translation
* Added feature to sort by recent user activity (requires Buddypress)
= 0.7.3 =
* Added filters to allow modification of userlist templates
* Added "BuddyPress? Member Page" to the list of pages which a user can be linked to
* Changed get_avatar() call so that it works with buddypress
= 0.7.2 =
* Fixed a spelling mistake which prevented the plugin from loading
= 0.7.1 =
* Improved inline function documentation
* Fixed bug which caused a faulty name attribute for checkbox lists with only one choice. Now the "show name" option is working as exptected again.
* Removed by-reference variable which causes PHP 4 parse errors
= 0.7 =
* Removed invalid characters from uninstall.php (fixes uninstall behaviour).
* New feature to link users to their website or blog (wpmu).
* Added new feature to allow specification of a sort direction for sorted user lists.
* Changed string-based sorting to case-insensitive (strcmp -> strcasecmp).
* Added feature to sort users by date of registration.
* Optimised UserList filtering.
* Fixed numeric sorting issues (user_id and post count)
* Added "order by number of posts" feature
* Removed user role from avatar title.
= 0.6.2 =
* Fixed bug which caused the plugin to crash in PHP 4.
* Added uninstall.php to remove plugin related data when the plugin is deleted.
= 0.6.1 =
* Fixed bug which caused other tinymce plugins to stop working.
* Improved way of detecting a wpmu install.
= 0.6 =
* Implementation of tinymce plugin.
* Removed personalised jquery ui script and added just the packed ui.resizable.
* Changed script and stylesheet handling (using register&enqueue functions with proper dependencies).
* Refactored the "resizable avatar preview" script code into separate file.
* FormHelper: Added option to generate textareas.
* FormHelper: Added option to show expanded choice fields "inline".
* Added improved function for cleaning up a value to be used as html id attribute.
* AuthorAvatarsForm: added methods to ease generation of tabs and two-column panes.
* AuthorAvatarsForm: added new renderField methods for shortcode type, email and alignment (used in show_avatar wizard).
* Various Documentation updates and cleanups.
* Refactored widget form field generation into new AuthorAvatarsForm.class.php to ease devevlopment of shortcode wizard.
* Refactored form field generation code into new FormHelper.class.php.
* Fixed size and position of blog selection box on sitewide admin page. Changed the name of is_wpmu() function to safer name AA_is_wpmu().
* Removed "Group by blogs" checkbox for users without the blog selection filter.
= 0.5.1 =
* Fixed method chaining error that caused a critical syntax error on PHP 4
= 0.5 =
* Added "show_avatar" shortcode
* Small MultiWidget fix by [Dan Cole](http://blog.firetree.net/2008/11/30/wordpress-multi-widget/#comment-24976)
* Refactored [show_avatar] shortcode into new file ShowAvatarShortcode.class.php to keep it all nice and tidy.
* Added basic blog filtering feature.
* Added classes for settings and sitewide admin
* Added sitewide setting for the blog filter
* Updated update mechanism in AuthorAvatars.class.php
* Added "Group by blog" feature
= 0.4 =
* Added new [shortcode](http://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/authoravatars-shortcode/) feature.
* Fixed small bug in update procedure (version 0.1 to 0.2)
= 0.3 =
* Fixed error that broke some javascript on "edit post" pages in wordpress 2.7
= 0.2 =
* Widget: added avatar preview image to the control panel
* Widget: added option to link the user/avatar to their respective "author page"
* Widget: hiddenusers also allows user ids now (e.g. 1 for "admin")
* Refactored the plugin to use [Alex Tingle's "MultiWidget" class](http://blog.firetree.net/2008/11/30/wordpress-multi-widget/)
== Frequently asked questions ==
= Shortcode, huh? =
A shortcode is a tag like [authoravatars] which you can insert into a page or post to display a list of users on that post/page. You can read more about shortcodes in general in the wordpress codex, for example [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode) or [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API).
= How do I use the author avatar shortcode? =
As of version 0.6 the plugin comes with a tinymce plugin which makes it very easy to insert shortcode(s).
If you'd like to do it manually it's still simple: just add [authoravatars] into your post and hit save! There's a large number of [parameters](http://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/authoravatars-shortcode/) available.
The plugin comes with two shortcodes: [authoravatars] for lists of avatars and [show_avatar] for single avatars.
= I can't get my widget to show users from multiple blogs! =
Make sure you have enabled the "blog filter" in Site Admin / Author Avatars for the blog on which you are trying to use this feature on. By default this is only enabled for the root blog (blog id = 1).
And you are running [Wordpress MU](http://mu.wordpress.org/) (or respectively WordPress 3 in multi-site mode), right?
= Can I upload custom pictures for users? =
No, the Author Avatars List plugin only provides ways of displaying user avatars.
The plugin uses the Wordpress Core Template function get_avatar() to retrieve the actual avatar images. In order to display custom images you need to look for plugins which use/override WordPress' avatar features and provide respective upload features...
Have a look at the [User Photo](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/) Plugin (turn on option "Override Avatar with User Photo") or the [Add Local Avatar](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-local-avatar/) Plugin.
= I get a "404 Page not found" error when I click on the avatar of a user! =
This can happens when you've choosen to link users to their "author page" and the user has not written any posts on a blog. There are two things that you should do in this situation:
1. To prevent the 404 page from showing up install the [Show authors without posts](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/show-authors-without-posts/) Plugin. This forces WordPress to always show the user page if the user exists.
2. If not already there add a custom user/author template to your theme. Otherwise if a user has no posts their user page is going to be quite empty by default...
You can find a [tutorial](http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates) on Author Templates as well as a [Sample Template File](http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates#Sample_Template_File) in the WordPress Codex.
= Can I use html in user biographies? =
Wordpress Core unforunately strips all html from the user biography field when entered. Install the plugin [Weasel's HTML Bios](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/weasels-html-bios/) if you want to use html...
= How can I change the styling of the avatar lists? =
The styling of the widget is controlled by the styles defined in [css/widgets.css](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/author-avatars/trunk/css/widget.css), avatars on posts/pages (using the shortcode) are styled by code in [css/shortcode.css](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/author-avatars/trunk/css/shortcode.css).
You can override the styles in that file by copying a style block to your theme's `style.css` and adjusting respectively. For example add the following to remove the padding from avatars displayed in a widget:
`html .multiwidget_author_avatars .author-list .user {
padding: 0;
}`