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>Professional Support</h3>
<p>If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can access the support forums at <a href="http://themehybrid.com/board/topics" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hybrid</a>, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 60,000+ users (and growing).</p>
<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.

DanielAGW

Dev49.net

<p>WP First Letter Avatar <strong>sets custom avatars for users without Gravatar</strong>. The avatar will be a first letter of the user’s name. You can also configure the plugin to use any other letter to set custom avatar.</p>
<p>WP First Letter Avatar includes a set of <strong>beautiful, colorful letter avatars</strong> in many sizes. Optimal size will be chosen by the plugin in order to display high quality avatar and not download, for example, big 512px avatars when only 48px is needed… <strong>PSD template</strong> for avatar is also included.</p>
<p>You can also create your own avatar set by creating new directory next to <em>‘default’</em> folder and following the naming convention from <em>‘default’</em>.</p>
<p>By default, custom avatar will be set only to users without Gravatars, but you can change that in settings and not use Gravatar at all.</p>
<p>WP First Letter Avatar helps you <strong>bring more colors</strong> into your blog. Plus, your readers will be more <strong>willing to comment on your posts</strong>, since they can actually relate to these avatars much better than to Mystery Person.</p>
<p>All images were compressed using the fantastic <a href="https://tinypng.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">TinyPNG</a>, so avatars are <strong>incredibly light and ultra-high quality</strong>.</p>
<p>WP First Letter Avatar is also available <a href="https://github.com/Dev49net/wp-first-letter-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Compatibility with other plugins</h4>
<p>WP First Letter Avatar is fully compatible with <a href="https://bbpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress</a> and <a href="http://www.gvectors.com/wpdiscuz/" rel="nofollow ugc">wpDiscuz</a>. For <a href="https://buddypress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress</a> compatibility please use my other plugin – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-first-letter-avatar/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress First Letter Avatar</a>.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>WP First Letter Avatar requires at least PHP 5.4. It <strong>does not work properly</strong> on PHP 5.3.x and earlier.</p>


WP First Letter Avatar

cool plugin

Set custom avatars for users with no Gravatar. The avatar will be the first (or any other) letter of user's name on a colorful background.

Avatars Meta Box vs WP First Letter Avatar