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.

Bart Kuijper

<p>When displaying a post or comment with avatars enabled, WordPress will always check for the existence of a Gravatar. (Note: even the default avatars ‘mystery person’ and ‘blank’ are in fact Gravatars served from gravatar.com.) WordPress does this by sending an MD5 hash of every displayed post or comment author’s email address to gravatar.com. Even with many plugins that introduce locally stored default or user avatars, this check still happens. On top of that, some themes or plugins force (Gr)avatars to load even if the display of avatars is disabled completely in WordPress’ settings. If for whatever reason you do not wish for Gravatar to receive these requests (which some people have voiced GDPR concerns about), this plugin is for you.</p>
<p>The way it works is every time WordPress attempts to display an avatar, this plugin first checks if the image is about to be retrieved from gravatar.com. If it is, the URL is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image (included with this plugin). If the avatar has any other source, this plugin doesn’t interfere.</p>
<p>Gravatars are also removed from the Discussion page in Settings and replaced with the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. Again, any non-Gravatar images are left alone.</p>
<p>Upon activation of this plugin, if a Gravatar is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.</p>
<p>Upon deactivation of this plugin, if the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the Gravatar logo. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.</p>


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