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Avatar Plugin request

Really loving the avatar plugin, but would love the following developements or if anyone knows what code to change, i’d appreciate it.

1. When the avatar plugin is used in bbpress the picture automatically links to the user’s blog, great. Is it possible to include this link on normal wordpress/blog posts. If this was the case i’m sure people would comment more to advertise there own blog.

2. Currently the plugin squashes the photo into a square (alternative upload) no matter what shape or size. is it possible to crop with proper dimensions (like user photo plugin for normal wordpress). I know there is a the crop upload but my users aren’t that computer literate.

Thanks for reading, would appreciate some feedback.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:02:01
  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi,

    1. When the avatar plugin is used in bbpress the picture automatically links to the user’s blog, great. Is it possible to include this link on normal wordpress/blog posts. If this was the case i’m sure people would comment more to advertise there own blog.

    We’ll look into this but I can’t guarantee anything.

    2. Currently the plugin squashes the photo into a square (alternative upload) no matter what shape or size. is it possible to crop with proper dimensions (like user photo plugin for normal wordpress). I know there is a the crop upload but my users aren’t that computer literate.

    I’m afraid this won’t be changing. The alternative upload feature is only there in case there is a problem with the crop feature. Some older browsers don’t seem to like the crop feature.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • wiiwill
    • New Recruit

    thanks for your quick reply andrew and thanks for looking into it. One of the troubles I had with the crop picture is that if a user uploaded a big picture (larger than 1024 in width or larger than their screen size) it was really difficult to crop because you have to use the scroll bars to crop the bit u needed.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    There’s really not much we can do about that issue. We’re looking into displaying an error if the image is larger than a certain size. However, that wouldn’t really solve your problem as it would just keep the users from even getting to the crop page.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • wiiwill
    • New Recruit

    Right I see, I just think more emphasis on being user friendly/idiot proof could be a better way forward for this excellent plugin, as more and more users have massive images on their pcs due to digi cameras getting more advanced (larger pixels) – and your average user isn’t going to know (or have the time) to resize an image before they choose to upload.

    (just my 2 cents)

    Thanks again.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Right I see, I just think…

    That’s also an educational issue. I know this comes up every couple of days at edublogs and I’m sure it does elsewhere. I know our sites have some decent docs and the size issue is raised on every page where uploads are discussed. And I know most of our admins have raised the topic at least once (if not *cough* 19 times on one site of ours) on their admin blogs.

    Having a set max size outside of filesize may be of interest to raise on the mu trac.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    The only way I would see it as trac worthy would be an admin setting for width and height maxes for any uploaded file. You would have to put something in there for the different file types as well.

    To be honest, if that showed up in the trac, I think Donncha would pass that along to the regular wp trac.