Boone Gorges

CUNY Academic Commons

<p>Out of the box, BuddyPress automatically turns some words and phrases in the fields of a user’s profile into links that, when clicked, search the user’s community for other profiles containing those phrases. When activated, this plugin allows users and administrators to have more control over these links, in the following ways:</p>
<p>1) By using square brackets in a profile field, users can specify which words or phrases in their profile turn into links. For example: under Interests, I might list “Cartoons about dogs”. By default, Buddypress will turn the entire phrase into a link that searches the community for others who like cartoons about dogs. If I instead type “[Cartoons] about [dogs]”, then the two words in brackets will turn into independent links.</p>
<p>2) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that will not turn into links at all. The standard setting for the plugin is that fields labeled ‘Phone’, ‘IM’, and ‘Skype ID’ will not become linkable (it doesn’t make much sense to search a community for what should be a unique handle, after all). See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress.php to configure this setting.</p>
<p>3) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles. If I enter my Twitter handle ‘boonebgorges’ into a field labeled ‘Twitter’, for example, this plugin will bypass the default link to a BuddyPress search on ‘boonebgorges’ and instead link to http://twitter.com/boonebgorges. See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress-bp-functions.php to configure this setting.</p>
<p>This plugin was created as part of the CUNY Academic Commons of the City University of New York. See http://commons.gc.cuny.edu to learn more about this bodacious project.</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>The plugin checks each profile for square brackets and activates if it finds any. If no square brackets are found, the default automatic filter will kick in.</p>
<p>You might want to insert a small explanation into your BP profile edit template (/wp-content/bp-themes/[your-member-theme]/profile/edit.php that tells your site’s users how to use these brackets. Here’s what I use:</p>
<p>“Words or phrases in your profile can be linked to the profiles of other members that contain the same phrases. To specify which words or phrases should be linked, add square brackets: e.g. “I enjoy [English literature] and [technology].” If you do not specify anything, phrases will be chosen automatically.”</p>
<p>Future features include: admin tab with toggle switch; ability to tweak BP’s automatic profile filter (e.g. to parse semi-colon separated lists in addition to commas).</p>


Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress

Allows users to take control of the way that the links in their Buddypress profiles are handled.

Cătălin Dogaru

<p>Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.</p>
<p>Enhance your WordPress website by letting your users choose between using Gravatar or a self-hosted avatar image right from their profile screen. Improved workflow, on-demand image generation and custom user permissions under a native interface. Say hello to the Avatar Manager plugin.</p>
<h4>Help Preserve this Project</h4>
<p>Want to support this project for continued development and freely available for everyone? Here’s how you can help preserve Avatar Manager:</p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager#contributing" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Get involved.</strong></a> Contribute a patch or help resolving an existing issue or confirmed feature request, or submit a translation.</li>
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<p>Avatar Manager is a user-driven project, and all developments and enhancements depend on users like <em>you</em>! Become a contributor or make a donation, and get your name featured in front of a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/stats/" rel="ugc">growing audience</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for choosing to contribute to Avatar Manager!</em></p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>Have a bug or a feature request? Please <a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">open a new issue</a>. Before opening any issue, please search for existing issues and read the <a href="https://github.com/necolas/issue-guidelines" rel="nofollow ugc">Issue Guidelines</a>, written by <a href="https://github.com/necolas/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Gallagher</a>. Please submit all pull requests against development branches.</p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Avatar Manager on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>How It’s Made</h4>
<p>Find out how Avatar Manager it’s made on <a href="http://code.tutsplus.com/series/how-to-create-a-wordpress-avatar-management-plugin-from-scratch--wp-33866" rel="nofollow ugc">Tuts+ Code</a>.</p>
<h4>Authors</h4>
<p><strong>Cătălin Dogaru</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>https://profiles.wordpress.org/cdog</li>
<li>https://github.com/cdog</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributors</h4>
<p>Avatar Manager is brought to you by these fine folks.</p>
<p><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dikiy_forester" rel="nofollow ugc">Artem Frolov</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brikou" rel="nofollow ugc">Brice Capobianco</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ideos" rel="nofollow ugc">Guy Steyaert</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/artstorm" rel="nofollow ugc">Johan Steen</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wiiz83" rel="nofollow ugc">Lucas Uzan</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mateusneves" rel="nofollow ugc">Mateus Neves</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/modima65" rel="nofollow ugc">Maura Montero D.</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pietergoosen" rel="nofollow ugc">Pieter Goosen</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/schm168" rel="nofollow ugc">Samantha Muthiah</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/snowboardmommy" rel="nofollow ugc">Snowboard Mommy</a></p>
<h4>Copyright and License</h4>
<p>Copyright © 2021 Cătălin Dogaru</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p>


Avatar Manager


First off great that this plugin works, doesn’t cause download of huge images to display as small avatars and seems to work well 🙂



I like that it supports gravatar as a default.



I'm not sure it is still supported but if it is, it needs to have at least meta data updated so everything doesn't point to moved pages and needs to be marked as tested in release 6.4.2 or so...


Works in WP 6.4.2, Not sure is Still Supported

Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.

Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress vs Avatar Manager