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Create groups to organize your subscribed users and send them e-mails based on their groups or by user levels, capabilities or usernames. You can also send messages for anybody, directly by e-mail addresses. Besides that, you can use some information of the current user and of a selected publication (post or page), to personalize the message, that can take attached files, if you want. WPMailing offers support if you are using Xinha4WP or Dean’s FCKEditor, to write e-mails in your favorite editor.
<h3>Features</h3>
Once the plugin is activated, your administration panels will offer:
<ul>
<li>The ability to create groups and tag your users, by adding new features in Users section pages 
through Javascript (user.php, profile.php and user-edit.php). 
** This actions will not modify the WP original files.</li>
<li>An interface to modify names and descriptions of your groups (Manage > Groups) </li>
<li>An interface to compose and send e-mails to subscribed users, 
with some interesting features (Write > Write e-mail): 
** The ‘To’ field supports multiple e-mails and inclusions by user level, capability, group or username. 
** You can attach multiple files to the message 
** You can use values of an specific post or page 
** The e-mail can be personalized with informations of the user that will receive the message</li>
<li>An interface to set or update some WPMailing configurations (Options > Mailing) </li>
<li>Complete information about the sending process after you send any e-mail</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
Your feedback are welcome. 
 Send any bug detections, suggestions, critics, etc. to: wpmailing(at)jsbrasil(dot)com 
 Thank you, Cau Guanabara.

WPMailing

Create groups to organize your subscribed users and send them e-mails based on their groups or by user levels, capabilities or usernames.

shanebp

BP Local Avatars is a BuddyPress plugin.
Do you have members or groups on your BuddyPress site who do not have an Avatar? 
And you do not want to show the generic default avatar? 
Or maybe you do not want each page view to include a lot of calls to gravatar.com to load avatars?
<ul>
<li>This plugin will create a Gravatar Identicon avatar, thumb and full versions, for any user who does not already have an Avatar, and save it locally.</li>
<li>Supports user creation, user registration, user login, and Bulk Generation for user and groups.</li>
<li>Uses the existing BuddyPress avatar directory structure.</li>
<li>Conforms to the defined sizes for BuddyPress thumb and full avatars.</li>
<li>Users can still upload an avatar via their profile.</li>
<li>Groups can still upload an avatar via Group > Manage > Photo.</li>
</ul>
Usage:
<ol>
<li>
Provides an option in wp-admin under: 
Settings -> Discussion > Default Avatar > BuddyPress Identicon (Generated and Stored Locally).
</li>
<li>
Select and Save. Otherwise this plugin will not do anything.
</li>
<li>
After saving, you will see a link to ‘Bulk Generate’ avatars for all users and groups who do not have a local avatar. If a user already has their own Gravatar, it will save it locally.
</li>
</ol>
For more BuddyPress plugins, please visit <a href="https://www.philopress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhiloPress</a>

BP Local Avatars

A BuddyPress plugin that creates Gravatar avatars for any user or group without one, and stores them locally.

WPMailing vs BP Local Avatars