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IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments stored locally on your own server.
Note: IntenseDebate is currently being maintained, but not actively developed.

IntenseDebate Comments


Sounded like a good plugin but it does not connect with your wordpress site after adding the plugin.  When trying to login it will always say login failed.  I even clicked the create new account and tried and it still failed.


Will not connect

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog.  Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

shanebp

BP Local Avatars is a BuddyPress plugin.
Do you have members or groups on your BuddyPress site who do not have an Avatar? 
And you do not want to show the generic default avatar? 
Or maybe you do not want each page view to include a lot of calls to gravatar.com to load avatars?
<ul>
<li>This plugin will create a Gravatar Identicon avatar, thumb and full versions, for any user who does not already have an Avatar, and save it locally.</li>
<li>Supports user creation, user registration, user login, and Bulk Generation for user and groups.</li>
<li>Uses the existing BuddyPress avatar directory structure.</li>
<li>Conforms to the defined sizes for BuddyPress thumb and full avatars.</li>
<li>Users can still upload an avatar via their profile.</li>
<li>Groups can still upload an avatar via Group > Manage > Photo.</li>
</ul>
Usage:
<ol>
<li>
Provides an option in wp-admin under: 
Settings -> Discussion > Default Avatar > BuddyPress Identicon (Generated and Stored Locally).
</li>
<li>
Select and Save. Otherwise this plugin will not do anything.
</li>
<li>
After saving, you will see a link to ‘Bulk Generate’ avatars for all users and groups who do not have a local avatar. If a user already has their own Gravatar, it will save it locally.
</li>
</ol>
For more BuddyPress plugins, please visit <a href="https://www.philopress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhiloPress</a>

BP Local Avatars

A BuddyPress plugin that creates Gravatar avatars for any user or group without one, and stores them locally.

IntenseDebate Comments vs BP Local Avatars