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<p>Adds local (private) avatars for your users.  Maybe your users don’t want a global avatar, aren’t IT savvy enough to set a Gravatar up, simply want a private avatar for your blog, or any other reason too…  Well, from WordPress 2.5 onwards, you can manage local and global avatars with this plugin.  Plus you can use your Twitter avatar too!</p>
<p>From v9.0 Avatars requires PHP version 5.1.3 or greater.</p>
<p>The plug-in now delivers the much requested feature of allowing users to upload their own local avatar.  And, the latest new feature allows your users to use their <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> avatar.  The order of precedence is; <em>Local</em>, <em>Twitter</em>, then <em>Global</em>.  In other words; if you define a Local avatar for a user, that will be used, if there is no Local avatar defined and a Twitter ID is given for a user, the plugin will try to use that avatar.  Lastly, where no Local avatar is defined and no Twitter ID is given (or Twitter doesn’t return a match), a unique Global avatar (<a href="http://gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a>) will be generated.</p>
<p>The local avatar feature list:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have global or local avatars for your users.</li>
<li>Use Twitter avatars for your users.</li>
<li>Allow avatars to be included in posts.  This is achieved securely; e-mail addresses are not exposed.</li>
<li>Detailed control over the default avatar to use for those users who do not have a global or local avatar.  Allows a choice of a custom image, ‘mystery’ blank image, blank, Wavatar, Monster ID, or Identicon.</li>
<li>Wraps avatars in code to support SnapShots (www.snap.com), should your site use these.</li>
<li>Permits users to upload their own local avatars.</li>
</ul>
<p>You may also be interested in the sister <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/01/01/comments-with-avatars/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comments with Avatars</a> plugin.</p>
<p>Plus there is now a new sidebar widget extension to the plug-in that provides a feature allowing users to manage their avatar from the sidebar without having to use WordPress’ profile administration page.  It provides the same capability as the profile page.  This new feature provides yet more support for users who may not, for example, be savvy enough to use the WordPress administration interface.  Get the extension <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Donations</a> are welcome and help keep development going.</p>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>A lot of hard work has gone in to this plug-in, much of it at the request of people who use it, and I hope it is useful to you too!  Please consider these things…</p>
<ul>
<li>Please recognise your use of the plug-in on your blog.  Maybe post an article (with a link back to http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/) to say how you’ve integrated the plug-in into your site?  Or simply make sure the Author Credit option is enabled on the options page.</li>
<li>Remember that a lot of the features of the plug-in are a direct result of people asking for them.  So, please get in contact and let me know what you think.</li>
<li>If you do find value in using the plug-in, please consider a donation at http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/  Size isn’t important, it’s the thought that counts!</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<h3>Internationalisation</h3>
<p>Avatars provides support for language translations.  Ensure WPLANG is set in your <code>wp-config</code> file.<br />
To help with the available translations create a .po translation and compile a .mo file.  If you would like this to be included in the general distribution please send these files back via the <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/Comments/feedback.php" rel="nofollow ugc">feedback link</a>.  I can’t accept any credit for these languages files, nor can I guarantee they are correct.</p>
<p>Available translations, from the English default, are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Persian (WPLANG = fa_IR).  Thanks to Mustafa Sufi.</li>
<li>Russian (WPLANG = ru_RU).  Thanks to Levati.</li>
<li>French (WPLANG = fr_FR).  Thanks to Adrien Schvalberg.</li>
<li>Spanish (WPLANG = es_ES).  Thanks to Naceira – http://www.naceira.com/</li>
<li>Ukrainian (WPLANG = uk_UK).  Thanks to Vadim Nekhai, website: http://onix.name/portfolio/</li>
<li>Portuguese Brazil (WPLANG = pt_BR).  Thanks to Steff.</li>
<li>Japanese (WPLANG = pt_ja).  Thanks to Kazuhiko Maeda.</li>
<li> Czech (WPLANG = cs_CZ).  Thanks to Dominik Chrástecký.</li>
</ul>


Add Local Avatar

When I tried to add the user avatar the plugin showed the link as
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Basically the plugin is broken.



It simply does not work

This plugin adds the ability to manage global, local, and use twitter avatars.

<p>Social Photo Fetcher (previously called “Facebook Photo Fetcher”) allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums.</p>
<p>The idea was inspired by <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fotobook/" rel="ugc">Fotobook</a>, though its approach is fundamentally different: while Fotobook’s emphasis is on automation, this plugin allows a great deal of customization.  With it you can create galleries in any Post or Page you like, right alongside your regular content. You do this simply by putting a “magic HTML tag” in the post’s content – much like <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Shortcode</a>. Upon saving, the tag will instantly be populated with the Facebook album content. Presentation is fully customizable via parameters to the “magic tag” – you can choose to show only a subset of an album’s photos, change the number of photos per column, show photo captions, and more.  Plus, Social Photo Fetcher doesn’t limit you to just your own albums: it can create galleries from fanpages as well.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses Facebook’s API to instantly create WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums.</li>
<li>Galleries are fully customizable: you can import complete albums, select excerpts, random excerpts, album descriptions, photo captions, and more.</li>
<li>Galleries can be organized however you like: in any post or page, alone or alongside your other content.</li>
<li>Simple PHP template function allows programmers to manually embed albums in any template or widget.</li>
<li>Built-in LightBox: Photos appear in attractive pop-up overlays without the need for any other plugins.</li>
<li>Admin panel handles all the setup for you: Just login and you’re ready to start making albums.</li>
<li>No custom database tables required; galleries live in regular post content.</li>
</ul>
<p>For a Demo Gallery, see the <a href="https://www.justin-klein.com/projects/facebook-photo-fetcher" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s homepage</a>.</p>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>Many hours have gone into developing & maintaining this plugin, far beyond my own personal needs. If you find it useful, please consider <a href="https://www.justin-klein.com/projects/facebook-photo-fetcher/#donate" rel="nofollow ugc">making a donation</a> to help support its continued development.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the Facebook API to fetch photo albums from Facebook. Facebook’s security rules require that apps must authorize from one specific, known location. In order comply with this requirement, when you first authorize the plugin from its admin panel, a Facebook dialog will be initiated via my own authentication server. The dialog itself is shown directly by Facebook, and Facebook handles the entire login process – no personal information will be transferred via my server, as Facebook only supplies a single-use token which I then hand back to your site to be stored. This is what the plugin uses in order to fetch the photos. For more information about how the Facebook authorization process works, please see <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/web" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook’s documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Usage of this plugin means the site administrator is consenting to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/policy.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook’s data policy</a>. Fetched album data will be stored in your WordPress database, in posts or pages of your choosing. It can be removed by deleting those posts or pages. You are solely responsible for the security and protection of the fetched data, as it resides on and is hosted within your own WordPress site.</p>
<p>I do not store or process any of your data.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Please direct all support requests <a href="https://www.justin-klein.com/projects/facebook-photo-fetcher#feedback" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></p>


Social Photo Fetcher

The author responded quickly for my support request and the plugin offers several hooks to tweak it and make it work how you want.

Good support and flexible

Allows you to automatically create Wordpress photo galleries from Facebook albums.  Simple to use and highly customizable.

Add Local Avatar vs Social Photo Fetcher