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Letter Avatars enables custom avatars for users without gravatar. Avatar will be replaced with the first letter of username or e-mail.
Letter Avatars does not use any images, scripts, or font-icons. All letters will be rendered by your theme font (or Optionally via a Google font).
Features
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<li>Works anywhere – Plugin hooks into pre_get_avatar function, so the avatar size is preserved</li>
<li>Highly customizable – You can change colors, letter font, as well as the font size</li>
<li>Stylish – You can change the background and letter colors or you can randomize them for all the avatars</li>
<li>Lightweight – Plugin does not use any external stylesheet, image, or js files. It only adds a small inline css in your header</li>
<li>Highly compatible – You don’t have to edit your theme / plugin files, it works automatically and plays nice with other plugins</li>
<li>Works with BuddyPress – Users and groups without gravatar / local avatar will use Letter Avatars</li>
<li>Works with YITH Reviews for WooCommerce – Avatars in reviews support Letter Avatars</li>
<li>Works with WP User Avatar – Users with Custom Avatar will use those, users without avatar will default to Letter Avatar</li>
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Letter Avatars

Nice

Nice work! Much better than "Mystery Man" for unknown users.



Featured on iThemes Training Plugin Roundup, March 2016

I chose this plugin over another similar plugin which had more installs and reviews because this plugin offers a solution as simply as possible. No images or scripts needed, just plain old CSS for the win. Kudos to the developer.

Lightweight & Elegant Solution

Works great and with good support by the maintainer. Thanks for your work!

Works great and good support

Sets custom avatars for users without gravatar. Avatars will be replaced by first letter of usename (or e-mail) on a colorful background

tomontoast

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.

Letter Avatars vs Drop Caps