It is with distinct pleasure that I can now announce the WPMU Avatar Pack!

Credits

Truly this isn’t a moment for me to bask in any kind of glory. Virtually 95% of the work that has gone into this plugin pack has come from other plugin authors for WordPress–they are a fantastic community of developers and they deserve full credit for what they do.
Most notably, the Profile Pics plugin was originally done by Hannah Grey, with major modifications to make it MU compatible by WDuluoz.

Usage

After installation, users will be able to navigate to their Profile page and upload their own photo. The photo will appear next to their comments across your WPMU site, and, if they use my Author Profile Enhanced widget, in their sidebar next to their “About Me” text. For a demo see http://suleiman.hadithuna.com.

Installation Instructions

The plugin pack consists of 3 separate items.

  1. Modded Profile Pics Plugin
  2. Modded Author-Profile Widget
  3. Modded MyCSS Plugin

STEP 1: Create the folder wp-content/avatars/. CHMOD to 755 or 777 if you have problems.

STEP 2: Unpack the Profile Pics Plugin into your mu-plugins folder. Then go to Site Admin –> Profile Pictures to configure its settings. Please Note: In order for the plugin to interact with the Author-Profile Widget, you MUST set your directory to wp-content/avatars/ and you MUST restrict the allowable file types to .jpg

STEP 3: Unzip the Author Profile widget to your mu-plugins/widgets/ directory or your plugins directory. Please Note: You will need to edit lines 74 and 75 of the code to point to the correct path and URL for your site!

STEP 4: Unzip the MyCSS plugin and place it into your mu-plugins folder. Only the relevant portions of the css that style the user’s image and the default image are contained in the css.

STEP 5: That’s it! You should now have a fully functional Avatars system for your MU site! User’s pictures are automatically added to 90% of the themes in the comments area, and you obviously in the sidebar.

You will also be kind to take note of the enhanced Author Profile Widget coded by moi :) The widget only displays a user’s picture if its uploaded, and if not displays the default image. It also displays the Author’s information from their “About Me” section. It also works in the loop, outside of the loop, and loop-ti-loop :)

Known Limitations

The Profile Pics plugin is broken in i.e. 7 (thank you Microsoft), because the form that it embeds in wp-admin/profile.php does not contain “enctype=multipart-form/data.”

The plugin is also broken in some themes, where pictures either don’t display next to comments at all, or come out formatted incorrectly.

Download WPMU Avatars 1.0

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