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Andrea_r, it worked! The rich text biographies plugin combined with weasel’s html bios plugin works on wpmu (or MS). Cool! (I must admit I was a little afraid to try it in case it messed up all my existing (x)html formatted bios.)

There you go suggesting that I do the obvious to answer my question! ?? Ok, I will and I’ll report back here.

Hi Andrea, I was considering using this plugin on my multi-author multi-site urban planning blog until I saw this post. Then your husband created an awesome plugin for me that hides the biographies from my authors while still allowing the admins access. But I was thinking (uh oh) that maybe this issue could be solved with the weasel plugin that blocks the html stripping? I have been using the weasel plugin to allow me to format the biographies with html for use with an author page template and it works fine. Do you think this would solve the problem? Also, looks like the plugin hasn’t been updated since March – any concern there?

Hi Ben: The afaik site didn’t lead me to a theme, per se. What are some other themes (they don’t have to be free) that come with author pages built-in. BTW, I created an author.php file and now have a rudimentary author page but I’d like to see some themes with fancier author pages built-in.

Is Euro paypal different that U.S. paypal? It wouldn’t accept my pw.

Ben, have you ever thought of making that an option in plugin menu? I don’t know how hard it would be to do but it seems like it might very useful to many of your plugin users.

Also, I’ve never seen any donation solicitations from you, like most of the other plugins. Your plugin is one of the most useful to my site so it feels odd that I have given to some of the others but not you. Maybe you’re extremely rich (may be you’re wealthy European nobility :-)) Check the BFA forum, they even engender a little competition by creating titles and privileges based on donor level.

.multiwidget_author_avatars .author-list .user {
padding: 0.2em;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
/* IE 7 */
zoom: 1;
*display: inline;
}

SOLVED! That string of code fixed the alignment in both IE7 and IE8. I hadn’t seen that version until you mentioned it in your post. When you release the new version, will there be any additional features or fixes?

Thanks Ben. So if I understand you, after the author template is added, when I click on an author avatar, the author’s biography will show up on top of his page and his posts will be listed below (instead of just his posts – as it is now)? That would be great!

Thanks Ben. I actually deleted that whole img.avatar string from my theme file css.php and there was no improvement so I restored it. However, I didn’t try it with just inline instead of inline-block Given that its working for you, you’re probably right that it is a problem with the theme, which uses tables. I’ll give it one more try with your suggestions above, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll just live with it while I slowly start looking for a new theme. Thank you!

BTW, when I said “they now line up vertically inline,” I was referring to IE-8 only. In FF, Chrome, Safari, they do just what I want – float in a block.

Hi Ben:

“inline-block” did change the behavior of the avatars in IE-8. They now line up vertically inline (ironic) rather than in a block with asymmetrical spacing, as before. I have to look on my wife’s computer for IE-7, which I haven’t done since the change.

I expanded the size of the sidebar and reduced the size of the avatars yesterday but it made no difference.

I looked at your test site in IE-8 and it was working correctly (the avatars were in a block/floating). However, mine still line up vertically. I made the “inline-block” change to your development version from six days ago. Have you made any additional changes since then that might account for the difference?

correction of my prior post: The problem of inline rather than block avatars is only on IE. It works great on FF and Chrome. So how can we get it to look the same on IE?

UPDATE: Ben, I did the following per suggestion from Ron Rennick, WP core dvlpr (see below). It helped but avatars still render inline on IE and some pages in all browsers I prefer floated/blocks. Any further fixes?

This is near the top of author-avatar/css/widget.css

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.multiwidget_author_avatars .author-list .user {
display:inline;
margin:0.2em;
}

Change the inline to inline-block

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.multiwidget_author_avatars .author-list .user {
display:inline-block;
margin:0.2em;
}

https://urbdezine.com. By the way, IE7 and IE8 each have problems but have different effects. It renders fine on both Firefox and Chrome.

UPDATE: I went ahead and downloaded your latest development version and it solved one problem caused another. Before the latest development version, I could place multiple avatars on a single row depending on the width of my sidebar but I was getting excessive space between each row of avatars in IE-8 only. Now the spacing is gone but I can only have one avatar centered avatar per row.