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.

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>
<ul>
<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>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16020" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Suggest adding to core.</strong></a> Whether you find Avatar Manager a good fit for WordPress core your feedback can help make a difference.</li>
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</ul>
<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>
<ul>
<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.

Top Authors vs Avatar Manager