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The Leafio Letter Avatar plugin allows you to create stylish user avatars using just their initial letters. Built entirely with CSS, it will not increase your hosting or server storage and has no impact on your site’s speed or performance.

Leafio Letter Avatar

Create user avatars using their initial letters.

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The drop caps plugin is fairly self-explanatory. It adds mark-up to your posts and pages which allows you to create wicked drop caps like those shown on <a href="http://instantsolve.net/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">my blog</a> or in the screenshots.
New in version 2: You can now add drop caps to comments and excerpts as well as post content.
Updating to 2.1: The plugin now adds a <code>span</code> as opposed to a <code>strong</code> tag. Make sure to change your stylesheet.
The plugin now has loads of settings. You can choose which pages to put drop caps on. You can exclude specific posts and categories and you can also choose wether to use the default styling.
The plugin marks-up the first paragraph starting with a capital letter. It makes the first letter into a drop cap and gives the paragraph a class of “first-child” allowing you to style the first paragraph in a different way.
<h3>Update Log</h3>
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<li>1.2 – Fixed a bug where drop caps wouldn’t appear after images or in paragraphs with attributes.</li>
<li>2.0 – Added loads of settings such as which pages to display drop caps on.</li>
<li>2.1 – Fixed a bug where drop caps wouldn?t appear after quotes and multiple HTML tags. Changed the markup to use <code>span</code> tags as opposed to <code>strong</code> tags. Posts can be excluded by name as well as ID.</li>
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Drop Caps

The Drop Caps plugin adds drop caps to your posts, pages and comments. It comes with some cool css styling and lots of options.

Leafio Letter Avatar vs Drop Caps