UPDATE: Unfortunately, this plugin has not been updated for quite some time and now generates errors, and is also not as secure as it could be. As I still use it, I’ve kept my version up to date, and I make this fixed version of the plugin available for you to download. This version will still be updated should the plugin owner chooses to resume providing updates. I will also continue to keep this version up to date too.
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar is a simple plugin that gives a colour coded avatar based on a letter from the username of the user, for users that have not set an avatar image. It’s an alternative to assigning a Gravatar or similar. It also performs the same task for groups.
Installation is simply a case of installing and activating the plugin, it starts working immediately. There are some configuration settings; you can choose which letter of the username to use as the avatar, and you can also choose only to use the first letter avatar even if the user has uploaded an avatar image. The settings page also allows you to choose to have round avatars on your site, and there are three avatar sets that you can choose.
I found this plugin worked very well out of the box, and it helped make a site with a lot of default avatars look more varied and colourful, also users seemed to warm to members with these as avatars rather than the impersonal default anonymous grey avatar. I give this plugin 9 out of 10, it is simple to use and effective.
I've been setting up and managing BuddyPress social networks for a few years. I moved from Ning and other platforms and have come to BuddyPress looking to make sites with similar features to them.
BuddyPress Follow allows members of a BuddyPress social network to follow each other, it places follow buttons on each members profile and in the members page and adds extra tab's in each members profile page, one showing who is following you and the other showing who you are following.
BP Profile Shortcodes Extra maintains the features introduced in the original plugin, it provides shortcodes to display the username, display name, profile url, avatar photo etc. but in addition it provides the ability to display the users cover image and also a collection of cover, avatar and @username that allows a profile header to be created on any page in your site. You can either specify the member to be displayed or the shortcodes will display details of the user that is viewing the page.
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