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.

Ashok Dudhat

WP Event Manager

Krinay Dhanani

Hitesh Makvana

Vijay Rathod

Rita Kikani

<p>P User Profile Avatar allows you to change the default WordPress avatar or User profile picture. You can use any photos uploaded into your Media Library or use a custom photo URL as an avatar instead of using Gravatar.</p>
<p><strong>Plugin Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Lightweight and easy to use</strong>.</li>
<li>Upload an avatar image from media library or local computer.</li>
<li>Set avatar image using custom path url.</li>
<li>Visibility option whether show avatar or not.</li>
<li>Display user profile avatar shortcode <strong>[user_profile_avatar]</strong>.</li>
<li>Upload avatar shortcode <strong>[user_profile_avatar_upload]</strong>.</li>
<li>Allow anyone <em>(Contributors & Subscribers)</em> can upload avatar.</li>
<li>Disable Gravatar and use own custom avatars.</li>
<li>You can rate avatar as G, PG, R, X based on your appropriateness.</li>
<li>Allow to set default avatar. Default Avatar Allows you to pick a default image when no avatar exists.</li>
<li><strong>SEO & Developer</strong> Friendly.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Set new user profile avatar from admin panel.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Go Admin Dashboard -> Users -> All Users –> Select any user profile you would like to edit.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Find “WP User Profile Avatar” section, You can give new avatar url path or you can upload avatar using media library.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update User.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Display new user profile avatar at frontend side.</strong></p>
<p>To retrieve the user avatar/photo on the front-end use one of the following approach in your template page(s).</p>
<p><em>1. Using shortcode and pass parameters based on your need.</em></p>
<pre><code> Shortcode: [user_profile_avatar]
 Parameters: userid, size, align, link, target and caption.
 userid : id of the user.
 size: original,medium,large,thumbnail.
 align: alignleft,aligncenter,alignright.
 link: image, attachment, custom.
 target: _blank, self,
 caption: you can give any text value in between shortcode bracket and it will display below user avtar profile.


1.1  Display default avatar using visual editor.

    You can use the following shortcode in any page and it will show default avatar of the plugin.

    [user_profile_avatar] 

1.2 Display avatar for the perticular user using visual editor.

    if you want to show user profile for the user id 1.

    [user_profile_avatar user_id="1"] 

    You can also set other parameters like size, align, link, target and caption in this shortcode.

    Example: 

    [user_profile_avatar user_id="1" size="original" align="aligncenter" link="image" target="_blank"] Display Name [/user_profile_avatar]

1.3 if you want to assign dynamic user id in shortocde without using visual editor

<?php
         //for the logged user, Current user object
        $user = wp_get_current_user();

        echo do_shortcode('[user_profile_avatar user_id="<?php $user->id ?>" size="original" align="aligncenter" link="image" target="_blank"]'. $user->display_name .'[/user_profile_avatar]');

?>
</code></pre>
<p><em>2. Using the function wpupa_get_url.</em></p>
<p>You will need to place below code in each area of your theme where you wish to add and retrieve your theme’s custom avatar image.</p>
<pre><code>2.1 At Author page
-------------------

<?php

    // Get The Post's Author ID
    $authorID = get_the_author_meta('ID');
    $authorname = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $authorID);

    // Set the image size. Accepts all registered images sizes and array(int, int)
    $size = 'thumbnail';
    $imgURL='';

    // Get the image URL using the author ID and image size params
    if (function_exists('wpupa_get_url'))  
        $imgURL = wpupa_get_url($authorID, ['size' => $size]);

    // display image on the page
    echo '<img src="'. $imgURL .'" alt="'. $authorname .'">';

?>

2.2 Except Author page
----------------------

<?php

    // Current user object
    $user = wp_get_current_user();

    // Set the image size. Accepts all registered images sizes and array(int, int)
    $size = 'thumbnail';
    $imgURL='';

    // Get the image URL using the author ID and image size params
    if (function_exists('wpupa_get_url'))  
        $imgURL = wpupa_get_url($user->id, ['size' => $size]);

    // display image on the page
    echo '<img src="'. $imgURL .'" alt="'. $user->display_name .'">';

?>
</code></pre>
<p>You will need to place above code in each area of your theme where you wish to add and retrieve your theme’s custom avatar image.</p>
<h4>Be a contributor</h4>
<p>If you want to contribute, go to our <a href="https://github.com/wpeventmanager/wp-user-profile-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">WP User Profile Avatar GitHub Repository</a> and see where you can help.</p>
<p>You can also add a new language via <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-user-profile-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>. We’ve built a short guide explaining <a href="https://www.wp-eventmanager.com/documentation/translating-wp-event-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">how to translate and localize the plugin</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of our contributors.</p>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<ul>
<li>We are open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of our plugins!</li>
<li><a href="http://wp-eventmanager.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Drop us a line</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wp-eventmanager.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Also please have look our other plugins</a> or visit at <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-manager/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org plugin page</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Connect With US</h4>
<p>To stay in touch and get latest update about WP User Profile Avatar’s further releases and features, you can connect with us via:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/wpeventmanager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/wp_eventmanager" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107105224603939407328/107105224603939407328" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Plus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/wp-event-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Linkedin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/wpeventmanager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfYxg-fegS_n9MaPNU61bg" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>1.WP Event Manager wants to give credit to GoogleAPIs as we are using GoogleAPIs to support users using their Google+ profile links on our plugin.<br />
2.  WP Event Manager wants to give credit to Gravatar as we are using <a href="https://gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a> to support users using their Gravatar profile links on our plugin. Privacy policy page of <a href="http://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a>.</p>


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