Justin Tadlock

<p>This plugin replaces the regular post author meta box on the edit post screen with a custom box.  The new author box will allow you to select your post author by clicking on the user’s avatar.</p>
<p>For more info, vist the <a href="http://themehybrid.com/plugin/avatars-meta-box" rel="nofollow ugc">Avatars Meta Box plugin home page</a>.</p>
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<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/avatars-meta-box" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>


Avatars Meta Box

Select your post author in style. Choose post authors by avatar instead of a select drop-down.

peterwsterling

<p>Once the widget is added to your sidebar you may easily configure it to provide a display of recent comments with comment author avatars.  The options are:</p>
<ul>
<li>The title of the widget.</li>
<li>Limit the number of comments to shown (1 to 15).</li>
<li>Option to display the avatar of the comment author, or not.</li>
<li>Set the size of the avatar.</li>
<li>Chose to have the comment author’s URL (if given) open in a new window,</li>
<li>Show the date of the comment, or not.</li>
<li>Set the format of the date.</li>
<li>Set the size (as a fraction of the normal text size) of the date string.</li>
<li>Show an excerpt from the comment.</li>
<li>Convert smilies in the excerpt.</li>
<li>Show a country flag indicating the source of the comment, requires MySQL database modifications, see below.</li>
<li>Show a country flag in main comment loops, non-widget, requires theme and MySQL database modifications, see below.</li>
</ul>
<p>The style of the output may be controlled with simple CSS rules that need to be included in your <code>styles.css</code> template file.<br />
    The container (i.e. <code><ul></code> or <code><table></code>) has the id recentcomments (use CSS <code>.recentcomments</code>).<br />
    List items (i.e. <code><li></code>) have the class recentcomments (use CSS <code>#recentcomments</code>).</p>


Avatars Meta Box vs Recent Comments with Avatars