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Oh. While I was writing my last post, you posted this …

Update: This was totally user error on our part.

Somehow the ‘User Avatar’ plugin we use to upload avatars (as opposed to using Gravatars) got updated to a version which is not compatible with our current installation along with the WP Biographia plugin.

Please feel free to close / delete this thread.

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So does this mean that the upgrade didn’t bork your installation?

Thanks for the quick reply … I’m assuming the User Avatar plugin you’re using is this one? If so, then I hold my hands up and admit that I’ve not come across this plugin before and as a result not been able to do any compatibility testing.

My plugin certainly adds to the fields available as part of a user’s profile but from looking at my code I can’t see how the two plugins would interact in such a way as to either delete the avatars or to remove any references to them.

From a quick look at the User Avatar plugin, can you tell whether the avatars are still present in /wp-content/uploads/avatars?

Also, while there doesn’t appear to be a clash between any hooks that the two plugins register, it’s interesting that the User Avatar installs a filter to override the default get_avatar() function to plug the user uploaded images in instead of using the Gravatar, but even then I can’t see why you’re experiencing what you’re experiencing.

Hmmm … more homework and investigation needed here I think.

WP Biographia v2.0 is now live in the WordPress repository. But I’d recommend caution; there’s been a report of some side effects with the new version (see here for details.

I’d love to get any feedback from people who do upgrade and whether there’s any other issues I don’t know about, and more importantly, need to resolve.

WP Biographia v2.0 is now live in the WordPress repository. But I’d recommend caution; there’s been a report of some side effects with the new version (see here for details.

I’d love to get any feedback from people who do upgrade and whether there’s any other issues I don’t know about, and more importantly, need to resolve.

WP Biographia v2.0 is now live in the WordPress repository. But I’d recommend caution; there’s been a report of some side effects with the new version (see here for details.

I’d love to get any feedback from people who do upgrade and whether there’s any other issues I don’t know about, and more importantly, need to resolve.

WP Biographia v2.0 is now live in the WordPress repository. But I’d recommend caution; there’s been a report of some side effects with the new version (see here for details.

I’d love to get any feedback from people who do upgrade and whether there’s any other issues I don’t know about, and more importantly, need to resolve.

Just following up on this I’ve installed v1.0 on a clean WordPress install locally and after configuring it I upgraded to v2.0.

While I haven’t seen any deletion of avatars I have seen that some of the plugin configuration settings are not as they were prior to the upgrade. This may be due to the changes made in v2.0 where more configurations were added. It’s also, at least as far as I know, impossible to check an automatic upgrade without pushing a new version to the WordPress repository and trying it out for real. Hmm.

Could I ask that you either repeat my experiment on your local machine or upgrade again and this time check the configuration settings and explicitly save them?

I’m really interested in seeing what the story is here and getting to the bottom of this.

Ouch indeed. But I’m not sure what you mean. The avatars are actually WordPress Gravatars and can’t (as far as I’m aware) be deleted from within a WordPress plugin.

But something’s not right. Can you check on gravatar.com that the user’s avatars are still there and that avatar support is enabled in the dashboard under Discussions?

Quick update; I’ve added in support for the post author’s email address and this will now be in v2.0.0; it’s updated on GitHub and will be included when I push the final version to the WordPress SVN repository.

Quick update; I’ve added in support for the post author’s email address and this will now be in v2.0.0; it’s updated on GitHub and will be included when I push the final version to the WordPress SVN repository.

@bruce … I most certainly do know this by now. I’ve been really amazed by the response to the plugin and Travis’ help and support have made it all worthwhile. Thanks for the comments and the feedback; I really appreciate it.

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Hi … first of all thanks for trying out the plugin and for getting in touch. I’ve been wrapped up in my day job for a while so I haven’t had the chance to catch up with the forums here.

I’ll add support for this into the next version of the plugin to avoid the need to hack functions.php; I’ve been working on my day job as well as getting a new version of the plugin into a shape fit for release but I hope to be able to do this over the next week or so.

Once again, thanks for using the plugin and thanks for getting in touch.

Best

G

Hi … first of all thanks for trying out the plugin and for getting in touch. I’ve been wrapped up in my day job for a while so I haven’t had the chance to catch up with the forums here.

This may be down to the theme template you’re using rather than the plugin itself. See https://www.vicchi.org/2011/08/31/wp-biographia-in-the-real-world/ for the full post discussing this, but the crucial part is …

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Another interesting oddity is when running WP Biographia with the Biography Box configured to be displayed on Archive pages. Some themes display this fine, but for other themes the Biography Box never appears. Each time I’ve seen this it turns out to be down to the way in which the theme renders the archive page. If the theme’s archive.php uses the_content() as part of the WordPress Loop then the Biography Box appears as it should, but if the theme uses the_excerpt() as part of the Loop, then either the first 55 characters of the post or the post’s specific excerpt will be displayed. As WP Biographia appends the Biography Box to the end of each post’s content, themes which use the_excerpt() will, sadly, never display as intended when used with WP Biographia. Thankfully, this is less a shortcoming of the plugin or of the theme, it’s simply the way in which WordPress handles post excerpts.
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You could also try the beta of the next version of WP Biographia which, as of this morning is available for download from GitHub at https://github.com/vicchi/wp-biographia/tags. See https://www.vicchi.org/2011/11/01/wp-biographia-v2-0-goes-into-beta/ for more background and information.

If you don’t want to manually install the beta version onto your WordPress install, once beta testing is done and dusted I’ll be updating the WordPress plugin repository so you can update automatically via the dashboard.

Please have a look at your theme templates and, if you try out the v2.0 beta, let me know if this fixes the problem or if it’s still there.

Once again, thanks for using the plugin and thanks for getting in touch.

Best

G

Hi … first of all thanks for trying out the plugin and for getting in touch. I’ve been wrapped up in my day job for a while so I haven’t had the chance to catch up with the forums here.

There’s a new version of the plugin which, as of this morning, is now in beta and available for download from GitHub at https://github.com/vicchi/wp-biographia/tags. See https://www.vicchi.org/2011/11/01/wp-biographia-v2-0-goes-into-beta/ for more background and information.

User email support is now on the list of features for the next version, which I hope to get out into the real world in a week or so, assuming the day job let me!

Once again, thanks for using the plugin and thanks for getting in touch.

Best

G

Hi … first of all thanks for trying out the plugin and for getting in touch. I’ve been wrapped up in my day job for a while so I haven’t had the chance to catch up with the forums here.

But … support for the configurable avatar size and the position of the Biography Box is now part of WP Biographia v2.0 which, as of this morning, is now in beta and available for download from GitHub at https://github.com/vicchi/wp-biographia/tags. See https://www.vicchi.org/2011/11/01/wp-biographia-v2-0-goes-into-beta/ for more background and information.

This is down to Travis Smith contributing a whole slew of new features in GitHub and sending me a pull request.

If you don’t want to manually install the beta version onto your WordPress install, once beta testing is done and dusted I’ll be updating the WordPress plugin repository so you can update automatically via the dashboard.

User email support is now on the list of features for the next version, which I hope to get out into the real world in a week or so, assuming the day job let me!

Once again, thanks for using the plugin and thanks for getting in touch.

Best

G