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.

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<p>Lightweight plugin that overrides the default widget “recent comments” in WordPress, adding an avatar display visitors comments and quotes length of 50 characters.</p>
<p>Is a direct descendant of WP_Widget_Recent_Comments.</p>
<p>Example markup that is generated by the plugin(for theming):</p>
<pre><code><ul id="recentcomments">
  <li class="recentcomments">
    <div class="alignleft">
      <img width="32" height="32" class="avatar avatar-32 photo" src="http://0.gravatar.com/...%3D32&amp;r=G" alt="">
    </div>
    <b>UserName</b>: excerpt comment <a href="http://example.com/page/#comment-ID">»</a>
  </li>
  <li class="recentcomments">
  ...
  </li>
</ul>
</code></pre>


WP Recent Comments With Avatars

Adds avatars and announcements comments. Compact code.

Avatars Meta Box vs WP Recent Comments With Avatars