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.

pepe

Ammaletu

<p>Avatars from Gravatar.com are great, but they come with certain privacy implications. You as site admin may already know this, but your visitors and users probably don’t. Avatar Privacy can help to improve the privacy situation by making some subtle changes to the way avatars are displayed on your site.</p>
<p>The plugin works without changing your theme files (for reasonably modern themes), and it does support multisite installations. Please note that the plugin does not provide an options page of its own, it rather adds to the existing discussion settings page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>The plugin’s features summed up:</p>
<ul>
<li>Self-uploaded avatars for users (and custom default images), hosted on <em>your</em> server.</li>
<li>Users and commenters explicitly opt-in before using gravatars.</li>
<li>Gravatar caching to ensure the privacy of your website visitors.</li>
<li>Don’t publish weakly encrypted e-mail addresses of comment authors.</li>
</ul>
<p>A more detailed examination of the <a href="https://code.mundschenk.at/avatar-privacy/reasons/" rel="nofollow ugc">reasons for using Avatar Privacy</a> can be found on the plugin homepage.</p>
<h4>WP-CLI Commands</h4>
<p>Avatar Privacy includes the following <a href="https://wp-cli.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a> commands:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db show</code>: Show information about the custom database table(s).</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db list</code>: List entries in the custom database table(s).</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db create</code>: Create the custom database table.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db upgrade</code>: Upgrade the structure of the custom database table.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default get-custom-default-avatar</code>: Show information about the custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default set-custom-default-avatar</code>: Set a custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default delete-custom-default-avatar</code>: Delete the custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy cron list</code>: List active cron jobs created by the plugin.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy cron delete</code>: Delete cron jobs created by the plugin.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy user set-local-avatar</code>: Set a local avatar image for a user.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy user delete-local-avatar</code>: Delete the local avatar image for a user.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy uninstall</code>: Remove data added by Avatar Privacy.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<p>Please report any problems with the plugin, I’ll do my best to sort things out. You can use the contact form on <a href="https://code.mundschenk.at/avatar-privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">my code site</a> or <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/avatar-privacy" rel="ugc">create a topic in the support forum</a>. You can contact me in German or English.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Avatar Privacy is based on the original plugin by <a href="http://code.freudendahl.net/projekte/avatar-privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Johannes Freudendahl</a>. The new release also includes work by several other people:</p>
<ul>
<li>Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi (<a href="https://jdenticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Jdenticon</a>),</li>
<li>Shamus Young (<a href="https://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462"" rel="nofollow ugc">Wavatars</a>),</li>
<li>Andreas Gohr (the original <a href="https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2007-01/20_monsterid_as_gravatar_fallback" rel="nofollow ugc">MonsterID</a> and <a href="https://github.com/splitbrain/php-ringicon" rel="nofollow ugc">RingIcon</a>),</li>
<li>Scott Sherrill-Mix & Katherine Garner (the <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid-update-hand-drawn-monsters/" rel="nofollow ugc">hand-drawn monster update</a>)</li>
<li>Benjamin Laugueux, Grummfy, Lucas Michot & Arjen van der Meijden (<a href="https://github.com/yzalis/Identicon" rel="nofollow ugc">Identicon</a>),</li>
<li>David Revoy (<a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article720/bird-avatar-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Bird</a> and <a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-avatar-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Cat Avatars</a>),</li>
<li>Zikri Kader, Colin Davis & Nimiq (<a href="https://robohash.org" rel="nofollow ugc">RoboHash</a>), and</li>
<li>Johanna Amann (the Avatar Privacy icon).</li>
</ul>


Avatar Privacy

Enhances the privacy of your users and visitors with gravatar opt-in and local avatars.

Top Authors vs Avatar Privacy