DanielAGW

I don’t quite understand why it’s happening… It’s as if the filter applied by BuddyPress First Letter Avatar didn’t work. Instead, it only uses the default avatar set in Settings > Discussion page in WordPress. Have you been using my plugin before? Was it fully functional before? Aren’t you using any plugins that may be disabling avatar filter applied by my plugin?

Hello,
Can you tell me the alt attribute of example avatar? Unfortunately, BuddyPress does not provide any useful functions/filters to get user data, so this plugin gets user name from avatar’s <img /> tag. Usually the alt attribute looks something like this: "Picture of [username]" – then I know that user’s name is [username].

Please check the alt attribute of couple of avatars in Inspect element feature in Chrome/Firefox/Opera/IE and let me know what it is.

I don’t know this function and I have never used it. Please look it up in BuddyPress documentation.

Cheers, thanks for letting me know. If you find any more problems, feel free to open new support thread.
Please rate the plugin if you like it! ??

Great, thanks for letting me know! Looking forward to updating.

Cheers,
Dan

Hi,
Just as I replied you on e-mail – this is not possible and I currently do not plan on implementing this feature.

Dan

Great, thank you so much for quick answers. Good luck with your plugins!

Thanks for the answer.
Turns out WPLANG is now deprecated (since 4.0). You may still have it if you had your first install prior to 4.0, but WPLANG is no longer there since 4.0 (neither in wp-config-sample.php nor in wp-config.php).

Here is some info on this change – https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/29630. It is recommended to use get_option('WPLANG') instead.

Here is a thread about it on Support forum – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/broken-wplang-_e-functions-not-selecting-good-language.

Cheers,
Dan

Great, thanks for letting me know!

Cheers,
Dan

Fantastic, thanks for letting me know! I hope you enjoy the plugin.

Cheers,
Dan

No idea – I’m not familiar with comment plugins. From the plugins I’ve tested, wpDiscuz seems to be great, but I don’t think it offers Facebook login.

As for Disqus avatar filtering – it should be relatively straightforward to use jQuery to check each comment, check username and replace the avatar. If you have jQuery developers on your team, then I’m sure they can work it out.

Updating PHP is also very important from security reasons. PHP 5.3 has reached EOL (end-of-life). Here is the list of unsupported PHP branches – https://php.net/eol.php. As you can see, PHP 5.3 has not been supported for more than 8 months already. So right now it is just very old software and more and more scripts will not be working on it.

I am sure your hosting provider will do it within a minutes. Many users can do it by themselves in their cPanel or DirectAdmin – but it can be done by a hosting provider himself too. Also, it would be a good idea to update not only to 5.4, but to 5.5 or even 5.6 – to make sure you will not have to update again for a long time.

Until then, you can continue using BuddyPress First Letter Avatar version 1.0.2 – https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/buddypress-first-letter-avatar.1.0.2.zip. It required PHP 5.4 only “on paper”. This is a link to a zip file – put its content manually to wp-content/plugins/buddypress-first-letter-avatar/ via FTP and everything will work just fine.

If you cannot activate the plugin, it probably means you have PHP 5.3 or lower. PHP 5.3 is no longer supported version and BuddyPress First Letter Avatar does not work with it.

You can check what PHP version you currently have by using a phpinfo() function for this or, for example, this plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/display-php-version/

Please check your PHP version and let me know if this is the reason.

Old plugin versions are available in Developers section of the plugin page – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/buddypress-first-letter-avatar/developers/ (see Other versions section). But please, update your PHP version – it’s very simple process, your hosting provider can do it for you – just e-mail them and tell you need at least PHP 5.4.x. Quick updating moves the web forward! PHP 5.3 is no longer updated and it is not safe to use it.

Hi,
The reason why it is happening is because you probably have PHP 5.3 or lower. PHP 5.3 is very old now – minimum required for WP First Letter Avatar is PHP 5.4.

P.S. I really advise you to update your PHP. 5.3 is not maintained anymore and it is unsafe to use it. Please contact your hosting provider if you don’t know how to change the PHP version (it’s very easy thing to do).

And just to make sure, check exactly what PHP version you currently have. You can use phpinfo() function for this or, for example, this plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/display-php-version/

@pietrogramma: new version is now available. Please update and see if it works for you. Let me know if you find any problems.