sargespamI had a specific need to show author avatars using username (loginname) rather than email or userid. Since I could not find anything, I wrote my first plugin. I am not a programmer and the code below is probably not without problems - but I post it here in the hope that it may help someone.
1. Copy the code below and save it as a php file.
2. Upload the file to your plugins folder and activate it.
3. Where you want the avatar to appear, use [showavatar username=loginname size=number] in the post.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Show User Avatar
Description: A plugin designed to provide shortcode ability in posts and comments using showavatar shortcode. Valid attributes are username=loginname and size=number.
Author: sargespam
Version: 0.8
*/
add_shortcode('showavatar', 'getuseravatar');
function getuseravatar($atts, $content=null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'username' => '',
'size' => '',
), $atts)) ;
$user = get_userdatabylogin($username);
$useridnum = $user->ID;
$output = get_avatar($useridnum, $size) ;
return $output;
}
?>Alternately, I believe you can also use the following code in your theme's functions.php file rather than making it a plugin.
function getuseravatar($atts, $content=null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'username' => '',
'size' => '',
), $atts)) ;
$user = get_userdatabylogin($username);
$useridnum = $user->ID;
$output = get_avatar($useridnum, $size) ;
return $output;
add_shortcode('showavatar', 'getuseravatar');
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