danielpataki

<p>Top authors allows yoy to list your top authors with plenty of options. You can set the following in each widget:</p>
<ul>
<li>Widget title</li>
<li>Roles to exclude</li>
<li>Post types to include</li>
<li>Authors to show</li>
<li>4 Preset display templates</li>
<li>Custom display template that allows you to create a completely custom structure and modify the output before and after the list.</li>
<li>Archive (category/tag/taxonomy) specific author lists</li>
</ul>
<p>For a more detailed description of how you can set up custom author lists take a look at the other notes section. The plugin also has some developer friendly features, take a look at the other notes section for more.</p>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/sebvandijk" rel="nofollow ugc">Seb Van Dijk</a> for donating this plugin to me for free, I owe you one 🙂</li>
<li><a href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" rel="nofollow ugc">Font Awesome</a> for the plugin icon</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Most of the options for the plugin are self explanatory, I thought I’d highlight the archive specific authors and the display template.</p>
<p>If Archive specific authors is checked the plugin will handle authors differently on category, tag and taxonomy archive pages. It will narrow the posts down to only those in the given archive. Practically this means the following:</p>
<p>Say John wrote 10 posts on the website and Jill wrote 5. On normal pages John would be listed first, Jull would be listed second. However, John wrote 3 posts in the “Food” category while Jill wrote 4. On the archive page for the “Food” category – if Archive specific authors is checked – Jill will be shown first with 4 posts and John second with 3.</p>
<p>When you select “Custom Structure” as the preset display you should see three new fields: Display Template, Before List and After List. These fields can be used to control the HTML display of your authors. To make sure you can use the data retireved by the widget I’ve added placeholders which will be replaced by real data:</p>
<ul>
<li>%posts_url%: The URL to the user’s post archive page</li>
<li>%website_url%: The URL to the user’s website</li>
<li>%gravatar_SIZE%: The gravatar of the user at the given size. For example, to display a 50px Gravatar your would use %gravatar_50%</li>
<li>%firstname%: The user’s first name</li>
<li>%lastname%: The user’s last name</li>
<li>%displayname%: The user’s display name</li>
<li>%username%: The user’s username</li>
<li>%post_count%: Number of posts</li>
<li>%meta_FIELD%: Displays the given meta field. If you store a user’s Twitter name in the ‘twitter’ meta field you could use %meta_twitter% to display it.</li>
</ul>
<p>As of 1.0.9 there is also a custom ID field. This is for advanced use, mainly for developers. It allows for custom CSS stylings and even custom queries on a widget-to-widget basis.</p>
<h4>For Developers</h4>
<p>Currently there are three filters you can use to control the options available in the widget.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>ta/usable_roles</code> allows you to change the roles that can be selected. It should return an array of roles in the form of slug=>name</li>
<li><code>ta/usable_opst_types</code> allows you to change the post_types that can be selected. It should return an array of post type objects</li>
<li><code>ta/post_query</code> allows you to modify the arguments of the WP_Query which retrieves the posts that we look up the authors for. Modify the arguments if you want to force category-specific top authors on single post pages, or other similar uses</li>
</ul>


Top Authors

One of the important options of this plugin for me is the 'visibility' option and i can't get it to work at all.



Love the idea but can't get the visibility option to work

A highly customizable widget that allows you to display the top authors of your website easily.

peterwsterling

<p>Adds local (private) avatars for your users.  Maybe your users don’t want a global avatar, aren’t IT savvy enough to set a Gravatar up, simply want a private avatar for your blog, or any other reason too…  Well, from WordPress 2.5 onwards, you can manage local and global avatars with this plugin.  Plus you can use your Twitter avatar too!</p>
<p>From v9.0 Avatars requires PHP version 5.1.3 or greater.</p>
<p>The plug-in now delivers the much requested feature of allowing users to upload their own local avatar.  And, the latest new feature allows your users to use their <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> avatar.  The order of precedence is; <em>Local</em>, <em>Twitter</em>, then <em>Global</em>.  In other words; if you define a Local avatar for a user, that will be used, if there is no Local avatar defined and a Twitter ID is given for a user, the plugin will try to use that avatar.  Lastly, where no Local avatar is defined and no Twitter ID is given (or Twitter doesn’t return a match), a unique Global avatar (<a href="http://gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a>) will be generated.</p>
<p>The local avatar feature list:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have global or local avatars for your users.</li>
<li>Use Twitter avatars for your users.</li>
<li>Allow avatars to be included in posts.  This is achieved securely; e-mail addresses are not exposed.</li>
<li>Detailed control over the default avatar to use for those users who do not have a global or local avatar.  Allows a choice of a custom image, ‘mystery’ blank image, blank, Wavatar, Monster ID, or Identicon.</li>
<li>Wraps avatars in code to support SnapShots (www.snap.com), should your site use these.</li>
<li>Permits users to upload their own local avatars.</li>
</ul>
<p>You may also be interested in the sister <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/01/01/comments-with-avatars/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comments with Avatars</a> plugin.</p>
<p>Plus there is now a new sidebar widget extension to the plug-in that provides a feature allowing users to manage their avatar from the sidebar without having to use WordPress’ profile administration page.  It provides the same capability as the profile page.  This new feature provides yet more support for users who may not, for example, be savvy enough to use the WordPress administration interface.  Get the extension <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Donations</a> are welcome and help keep development going.</p>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>A lot of hard work has gone in to this plug-in, much of it at the request of people who use it, and I hope it is useful to you too!  Please consider these things…</p>
<ul>
<li>Please recognise your use of the plug-in on your blog.  Maybe post an article (with a link back to http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/) to say how you’ve integrated the plug-in into your site?  Or simply make sure the Author Credit option is enabled on the options page.</li>
<li>Remember that a lot of the features of the plug-in are a direct result of people asking for them.  So, please get in contact and let me know what you think.</li>
<li>If you do find value in using the plug-in, please consider a donation at http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/  Size isn’t important, it’s the thought that counts!</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<h3>Internationalisation</h3>
<p>Avatars provides support for language translations.  Ensure WPLANG is set in your <code>wp-config</code> file.<br />
To help with the available translations create a .po translation and compile a .mo file.  If you would like this to be included in the general distribution please send these files back via the <a href="http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/Comments/feedback.php" rel="nofollow ugc">feedback link</a>.  I can’t accept any credit for these languages files, nor can I guarantee they are correct.</p>
<p>Available translations, from the English default, are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Persian (WPLANG = fa_IR).  Thanks to Mustafa Sufi.</li>
<li>Russian (WPLANG = ru_RU).  Thanks to Levati.</li>
<li>French (WPLANG = fr_FR).  Thanks to Adrien Schvalberg.</li>
<li>Spanish (WPLANG = es_ES).  Thanks to Naceira – http://www.naceira.com/</li>
<li>Ukrainian (WPLANG = uk_UK).  Thanks to Vadim Nekhai, website: http://onix.name/portfolio/</li>
<li>Portuguese Brazil (WPLANG = pt_BR).  Thanks to Steff.</li>
<li>Japanese (WPLANG = pt_ja).  Thanks to Kazuhiko Maeda.</li>
<li> Czech (WPLANG = cs_CZ).  Thanks to Dominik Chrástecký.</li>
</ul>


Add Local Avatar

When I tried to add the user avatar the plugin showed the link as
//image-file.jpg 
Basically the plugin is broken.



It simply does not work

This plugin adds the ability to manage global, local, and use twitter avatars.

Top Authors vs Add Local Avatar