Allows authors to add a picture to their profile and automates the process of displaying profiles. Highly configurable via plugin and widget settings.

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This plugin allows authors to add a picture to their profile and helps automate the process of displaying author profiles
Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatic setup – no template/code modification needed</li>
<li>Widget to display profile in the side bar – fully configurable</li>
<li>Easy profile display with shortcodes – within a page or post simply add [printprofile] to display your author profile and picture, or [printprofilepic] to display your profile picture</li>
<li>Optional template override setting will make author links go to the author’s profile</li>
<li>Work in tandem with <a href="http://blog.jodies.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Krischan Jodies’</a> <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-recent-comments/" rel="ugc">Get Recent Comments</a> plugin (ie. displays your profile pic next to your comments)</li>
<li>For multi-author blogs, administrators can edit (read: moderate) other authors’ pictures</li>
<li>For those old-school WordPress folks, the plugin supports a full set of template tags to enable template integration</li>
</ul>
<h3>Template Tags</h3>
(Note that the plug still supports legacy v.1 tags as well)
<h4>Template Tag 1:</h4>
Get Author Image Tag – makes a pretty <code><img></code> tag for author’s picture.
USAGE: profilepic_internal_imagetag(‘authorID’, ‘tags’, ‘display’)
FUNCTION: returns image for author wrapped in image tag, style accessable via id=”authorpic”
OPTIONS:
<ul>
<li>authorID: id number of author </li>
<li>tags: attributes to include in img tag (optional, defaults to no tags) </li>
<li>display: display results in html (ie. echo) or reuse in php? true or false (optional, defaults to true) </li>
</ul>
EXAMPLE: 
Code:
<pre><code><?php 
 profilepic_internal_imagetag($authid, 'align=left'); 
?>
</code></pre>
Result (ex.):
<pre><code> <img src="http://blog.com/wp-content/uploads/authors/default.jpg" width=200 height=199 align=left id="authorpic" /> 
</code></pre>
<h4>Template Tag 2:</h4>
Get Author Image Path – useful if you need to do something else with the path or url (link to it, stuff it into another function, make your own image tag, etc)
USAGE: profilepic_internal_picpath(‘authorID’, ‘display’, ‘type’)
FUNCTION: returns url or absolute path to author’s picture
OPTIONS:
<ul>
<li>authorID: id number of author </li>
<li>display: display results in html (ie. echo) or reuse in php? (optional, defaults to false) </li>
<li>type: specify what kind of path requested: ‘url’ or ‘absolute’ (optional, defaults to url) </li>
</ul>
EXAMPLE: 
Code:
<pre><code><?php 
 profilepic_internal_picpath($authid, true, 'absolute'); 
?> 
</code></pre>
Result: <code>/home/jdoe/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/authors/1.jpg</code>
<h4>Template Tag 3:</h4>
Get Author’s Image’s Dimension – useful if you are making your own <code><img></code> tag, or a div container for the img
USAGE: profilepic_internal_fingerdimensions(‘path’, ‘dimension’, ‘display’)
FUNCTION: returns requested dimension of author’s picture
OPTIONS:
<ul>
<li>path: absolute path to author’s picture from server root’, </li>
<li>dimension: the dimension you want, can be either ‘height’ or width’</li>
<li>display: display results in html (ie. echo) or reuse in php? true or false</li>
</ul>
EXAMPLES:
<ol>
<li>
to get picture width… (using profilepic_internal_picpath to get path to picture)
Code:
<pre><code><?php 
 profilepic_internal_fingerdimensions(profilepic_internal_picpath($authid, false, 'absolute'), 'width', true); 
?>
</code></pre>
Result (Ex.): 200
</li>
<li>
to get picture height… (using profilepic_internal_picpath to get path to picture)
Code:
<pre><code><?php 

 profilepic_internal_fingerdimensions(profilepic_internal_picpath($authid, false, 'absolute'), 'height', true); 
?>
</code></pre>
Result (Ex.): 199
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Template Tag 4:</h4>
Get Author’s Avatar – intended for use in the comments loop
USAGE: profilepic_internal_gravatar($authorID, $tags = ”)
FUNCTION: returns image tag if authorID is a registered user of your blog, false if author is not
OPTIONS:
<ul>
<li>authorID: id number of author</li>
<li>tags: attributes to include in img tag (optional, defaults to no tags)</li>
</ul>
EXAMPLES:
Code:
<pre><code><?php
 if (function_exists('profilepic_internal_gravatar')) { 
 $author_gravatar = profilepic_internal_gravatar($comment->user_id, "class='gravatar'"); 
 } else { 
 $author_gravatar = false;
 }
 if ($author_gravatar != false) {
 echo $author_gravatar;
 } 
?> 
</code></pre>
Result (Ex.):
<pre><code> <img src="http://blog.com/wp-content/uploads/authors/default.jpg" width=80 height=80 class='gravatar' />
</code></pre>

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