Sudar Muthu

<p>Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter username and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.</p>
<p>This Plugin works seamlessly and you don’t need to edit your theme files to add the new field to the comment form. It automatically adds it when activated.</p>
<p><strong>Note: Because of the changes in the way Twitter API works, from v2.0 of the plugin you need to create a twitter app and provide the access key and token. Refer to the installation instructions to find out how to do this</strong></p>
<h3>Template functions</h3>
<p>This Plugin provides 7 template functions which you can use in your theme to customize the way the comment author’s twitter id/profile should be displayed.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>get_comment_author_twitter_id($comment_id)</code> – Get the Twitter id of the comment author</li>
<li><code>comment_author_twitter_id($comment_id)</code> – Print the Twitter id of the comment author</li>
<li><code>get_comment_author_twitter_url($comment_id)</code> – Get the Twitter profile url of the comment author</li>
<li><code>comment_author_twitter_url($comment_id)</code> – Print the Twitter url of the comment author</li>
<li><code>get_comment_author_twitter_profile_image($comment_id)</code> – Get the twitter profile image url of the comment author</li>
<li><code>comment_author_twitter_profile_image($comment_id)</code> – Print the twitter profile image url of the comment author</li>
<li><code>get_twitter_profile_image($twitter_username)</code> – Get the twitter profile image of a user using twitter id</li>
</ul>
<h3>Styling using CSS</h3>
<p>By default the Plugin uses the class <code>comment-form-twitter</code> for the new twitter field. You can add CSS to that field or you can change the class in the Plugins setting page.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>The development of the Plugin happens over at <a href="https://github.com/sudar/twitter-avatar-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the <a href="https://github.com/sudar/twitter-avatar-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">project at github</a> and send me a pull request.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/contributing-to-project-hosted-in-github" rel="nofollow ugc">guide to see how fork and send pull request</a>.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then post them in <a href="https://github.com/sudar/twitter-avatar-reloaded/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">github issues</a></li>
<li>If you have a question about usage or need help to troubleshoot, then post in WordPress forums or leave a comment in <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/twitter-avatar-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugins’s home page</a></li>
<li>If you like the Plugin, then kindly leave a review/feedback at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-avatar-reloaded/" rel="ugc">WordPress repo page</a>.</li>
<li>If you find this Plugin useful or and wanted to say thank you, then there are ways to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/if-you-wanna-thank-me" rel="nofollow ugc">make me happy</a> 🙂 and I would really appreciate if you can do one of those.</li>
<li>Checkout other <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugins</a> that I have released.</li>
<li>If anything else, then contact me in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credit</h3>
<p>This plugin uses <a href="https://github.com/timwhitlock/wp-twitter-api" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-twitter-api</a> by @<a href="https://twitter.com/timwhitlock" rel="nofollow ugc">timwhitlock</a> as the underlying backend to make calls to Twitter.</p>
<h3>Translation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hebrew (Thanks Sagive)</li>
<li>Dutch (Thanks Rene of WordPress WPwebshop)</li>
<li>Brazilian Portuguese (Thanks Marcelo of Criacao de Sites em Ribeirao Preto)</li>
<li>German (Thanks Jenny Beelens)</li>
<li>Spanish (Thanks Brian Flores of InMotion Hosting)</li>
<li>Bulgarian (Thanks Nikolay Nikolov of Health Blog)</li>
<li>Lithuanian (Thanks Vincent G)</li>
<li>Hindi (Thanks Love Chandel)</li>
<li>Serbian (Thanks Diana)</li>
<li>Irish (Thanks Vikas Arora)</li>
<li>Gujarati (Thanks Puneet)</li>
</ul>
<p>The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.</p>
<h3>Readme Generator</h3>
<p>This Readme file was generated using <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-readme" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-readme</a>, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.</p>


Twitter Avatar Reloaded

Stores Twitter username together with comments and replaces gravatar with twitter avatar.

José Miguel

Will Stocks

<p>Optimum Gravatar Cache allows you to create a local cache with optimized copies of gravatars. The optimization is accomplished by resizing the avatars to the sizes used on your site, in addition to optimizing the images internally. Optimizations are performed to minimize the size of each avatar served by the plugin.</p>
<p>The plugin uses WordPress CRON to perform heavier tasks. Avatars are resized in the background. Avatars are optimized internally in the background. Except in certain cases where it is necessary to resize the avatars in the page request.</p>
<p>The plugin handles all your site’s gravatar as long as the wordpress get_avatar() function or buddypress bp_member_avatar() function is used. Works with plugins, themes, etc.</p>
<p>The plugin allows you to customize the avatar by default. This avatar is served whenever the user / visitor does not have a custom gravatar. This greatly reduces the number of requests made by your page, improving the user experience. Besides allowing to frame the avatar by default with the theme of your site.</p>
<p>The plugin, after being configured and activated, starts by serving gravatar for all. And it begins to create the cache dynamically in the background with the sizes being collected by the requests, as well as those configured on the plug-in page. When the avatar already exists in the cache, the plugin serves the avatar in cache. The plugin periodically checks to see if the user updated their gravatar on gravatar.com if yes is updated locally. This way, keeping an updated cache.</p>
<p><strong>The plugin intends the following:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Work with the gravatars locally, cache;</li>
<li>Reduce the number of requests per page, thus reducing the total time required to load all files. This is achieved because most users do not have a custom gravatar, and for those, only one file needs to be downloaded;</li>
<li>Optimize all avatars by reducing their size and transfer time again.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please if you find any bugs of any kind please contact me so that I can solve it as soon as possible.</p>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>English en_GB (@willstockstech)</li>
<li>Portuguese pt_PT (@jomisica)</li>
</ul>
<p>Help translate this plugin into your language</p>
<h3>Dependencies</h3>
<p>This plugin depends on the following PHP modules:</p>
<ul>
<li>php-gd or php-imagick (So that it can resize the avatars)</li>
<li>php-curl (So that it can communicate with the gravatar using the same connection to update several avatars)</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin also depends on WordPress CRON to be able to solve the heaviest tasks in the background.</p>


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