Dev49.net

DanielAGW

BuddyPress First Letter Avatar sets custom avatars for users without profile picture or Gravatar. The avatar will be a first letter of user’s name. You can also configure plugin to use any other letter to set custom avatar.
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar is based on my other plugin – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-first-letter-avatar/" rel="ugc">WP First Letter Avatar</a>. BuddyPress First Letter Avatar is basically the same thing, but programmed to work with BuddyPress.
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar includes a set of beautiful, colorful letter avatars 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… PSD template for avatar is also included.
You can also create your own avatar set by creating new directory next to ‘default’ folder and following the naming convention from ‘default’.
By default, custom avatar will be set only to users without profile pictures and Gravatars, but you can change that in settings and not use Gravatar/profile pictures at all.
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar helps you bring more colors into your BuddyPress site. Plus, your users will be more willing to actively participate in your site since they can actually relate to these avatars much better than to the Mystery Person.
All images were compressed using the fantastic <a href="https://tinypng.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">TinyPNG</a>, so avatars are incredibly light and ultra-high quality.
Plugin is also available <a href="https://github.com/Dev49net/buddypress-first-letter-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar requires at least PHP 5.4. It does not work properly on PHP 5.3.x and earlier.

BuddyPress First Letter Avatar

A WordPress-BuddyPress plugin to set fancy custom avatars for users with no Gravatar and no profile picture.

Matt Biscay

Better Comments is a great tool to help you style and customize your comment form and your comments section, in just a few clicks.
It saves you from having to meddle with your child theme’s CSS, just select the options you need and you’re all set.
Here’s a glimpse of what you can do with Better Comments:
Comment form
<ul>
<li>customize the look and feel of your comment form fields: border, radius, background and text colors</li>
<li>match the submit button with the colors of your site: border, radius, background and text and hover colors, dropshadow</li>
<li>highlight the fields as they are selected and typed in</li>
<li>set a Comment Policy section that can sit before or after the comment textarea, and define its look and feel</li>
<li>stack all fields in the comment form, to mimick a mobile view</li>
<li>move the comment field to the bottom of the form</li>
<li>remove the URL field</li>
</ul>
Comment section
<ul>
<li>set a custom default avatar for non-users</li>
<li>allow users to upload their own image avatar, within their profile</li>
<li>define a custom avatar shape among: circle, triangle, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, bevel, rabbet, or message</li>
<li>hide the comment’s date</li>
<li>design the Reply button to your liking: border, radius, background, text, hover colors, padding, text-decoration</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://utopique.net/products/better-comments/" title="Better Comments Premium" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Comments Premium</a> provides other sets of options that allow you to:
<ul>
<li>enable comments quicktags for your audience to format their comments nicely: you can define built-in quicktags (bold, italic, link etc) or define your own quicktags within the admin panel</li>
<li>access time-saving admin controls: oEmbeds in comments, disable admin self-notifications, add referrer to notifications, allow admin to comment on closed to comments posts</li>
<li>reduce SEO errors with smart redirects and keep the SEO juice flowing</li>
<li>increase security levels and reduce spam: shutdown trackbacks, disable comments cookies, discard comments posted with a numeric name, discard people impersonating registered members</li>
<li>disable comments on both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
<li>remove comments completely from both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
</ul>
New features are added on a regular basis.

Better Comments

Better Comments allows you to easily style and customize your comment form and comments section, in just a few clicks.

BuddyPress First Letter Avatar vs Better Comments