DanielAGW

BuddyPress makes it extremely difficult to customize avatars for users, especially based on their usernames. I found a workaround, but it’s not very pretty. I think I will make a new plugin just for BuddyPress.

Hi. I tried adjusting it to BudyPress when I was dealing with BBPress issue. Unfortunately, it turned out not to be so easy to adjust it to BuddyPress as it was for BBPress. But I will take another look, maybe I’ll come up with something.

BBPress compatibility has just been added, please update your plugin.

Thanks,
Daniel

Okay, so posts in bbpress forums are not saved in database as comments, but as posts. It is a problem, because I can’t use the typical comment functions to get the needed information. I can easily get both username and email of registered users posting on bbpress, but it gets more problematic with guests posting on your forum. It can be done, but I would prefer to avoid using solutions specific to certain system, such as bbpress, therefore I’ll try to think of some universal solution to this problem.

There’s probably a conflict with BBPress somewhere. I’ll install BBPress on my dev environment and see what’s happening there. I’ll have some more time tomorrow in the evening, so I’ll look into that.
Thanks for letting me know.

Problem is now fixed. Update the plugin from your WordPress dashboard and you will be able to freely use WP First Letter Avatar with wpDiscuz.

Cheers,
Dan

Thanks, so now we know that wpDiscuz causes conflict. I installed it and you’re right, it doesn’t work wit WP First Letter Avatar the way it should. Let me look into this. I hope I can come up with a solution.

What do you mean by not hooking avatars? Displaying “mystery.png” instead of a letter avatar?
Does it happen only to guest commenters? What happens when a registered user writes a comment?
I’m sure there is some conflict between WP First Letter Avatar and some other plugin. The only way to find out is to deactivate all plugins except WP First Letter Avatar and see if it works. If it works, start activating all your other plugins one by one and check if the avatar is displayed correctly.
If even after deactivating all plugins, WP First Letter Avatar still doesn’t work correctly, the conflict must lay somewhere in your theme’s functions.php, but this is very unlikely.

I’m sure it’s just a matter of experimenting with sizes, image-spacing and margins and I will eventually get it right. I’ve already added it to todo list.
Btw. thanks for mentioning small circle avatars in bluemail. After I saw it I thought it would be nice idea to add round avatars option to my plugin and I did it right away.

Thanks,
Dan

Thank you for your feedback.

Unfortunately, it would require to completely change the main code. The avatars are inserted into comments from 26 fully prepared images (in various sizes). So in the current plugin format it is not easy to implement.

The best way to do it would be to have 26 images of white alphabet letters on transparent background (in .png) and place them on <div> with randomly (or not randomly) chosen background colour. I’m only worried about getting the letter spacing right – it may not be that easy, since every letter has different width.

Great idea, I will keep that in mind and definitely implement it in future.

Solved: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/error-in-comments-section?replies=3

Fixed!

Sorry about that, I will fix it within couple of hours! Update will be available through WordPress.

Cheers,
Dan