Better Recent Comments vs One User Avatar | User Profile Picture

The default Recent Comments widget is somewhat limited. Better Recent Comments improves on this by providing a more flexible widget with options to show the user’s actual comment, as well as show avatars and the ability to show or hide the comment date. As well as the widget, there’s a handy shortcode you can use to display your recent comments. This is useful if you need to display comments somewhere other than your sidebar or footer, such as on your homepage. Simply add the shortcode [better_recent_comments]. That’s not all! The plugin is also WPML compatible, which means that the comments will be restricted to those in the current language. The default WordPress widget will list all recent comments, regardless of language, so you might end up with comments for German-language posts in the sidebar of your English site. Better Recent Comments solves this and makes sure the comments are for the current language only. Translations currently provided in Spanish, French and Italian. View the full plugin documentation in our Knowledge Base. Options available with the shortcode: format – the format of each recent comment. This option uses ‘placeholders’ which are substituted with the actual data when the comments are displayed. See the FAQs for details. number – the number of comments to display. Default: 5 comments date_format – the date and time format to use. Like WordPress, this uses a PHP date format. It defaults to ‘M j, H:i’. See this cheat sheet for a full list of date and time options. avatar_size – the size of the avatar in pixels. Only used if you have included {avatar} in your comment format (see ‘format’ option). Default: 50 post_status – the status of posts to retrieve comments for. Defaults to ‘publish’. Can be a single status or a comma-separated list, or ‘any’ to show comments for all post statuses. post_type – the post type to retrieve comments for. Accepts a single or multiple post types (e.g. ‘post’ or ‘post, dlp_document’) or ‘any’ to show comments for all post types. Default: ‘any’ excerpts – set to ‘true’ to show an excerpt of the comment (limited to 20 words), or ‘false’ to show the full comment. Default: true replies – set to ‘true’ to also show responses to comments, or ‘false’ to only see the top level comments. Default: true

WordPress currently only allows you to use custom avatars that are uploaded through Gravatar. One User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary. This plugin is a fork of WP User Avatar v2.2.16. One User Avatar also lets you: Upload your own Default Avatar in your One User Avatar settings. Show the user’s Gravatar avatar or Default Avatar if the user doesn’t have a One User Avatar image. Disable Gravatar avatars and use only local avatars. Use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to a front page or widget. This uploader is only visible to logged-in users. Use the [avatar] shortcode in your posts. These shortcodes will work with any theme, whether it has avatar support or not. Allow Contributors and Subscribers to upload their own avatars. Limit upload file size and image dimensions for Contributors and Subscribers. Copyright One User Avatar Copyright (c) 2023 One Designs https://onedesigns.com/ License: GPLv2 Source: https://github.com/onedesigns/one-user-avatar One User Avatar is based on WP User Avatar v2.2.16 Copyright (c) 2020-2021 ProfilePress https://profilepress.net/ Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Flippercode https://www.flippercode.com/ Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Bangbay Siboliban http://bangbay.com/ License: GPLv2 Source: https://github.com/profilepress/wp-user-avatar One User Avatar is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Advanced Settings Add One User Avatar to your own profile edit page You can use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to any page. It’s best to use this uploader by itself and without other profile fields. If you’re building your own profile edit page with other fields, One User Avatar is automatically added to the show_user_profile and edit_user_profile hooks. If you’d rather have One User Avatar in its own section, you could add another hook: do_action( 'edit_user_avatar', $current_user ); Then, to add One User Avatar to that hook and remove it from the other hooks outside of the administration panel, you would add this code to the functions.php file of your theme: function my_avatar_filter() { // Remove from show_user_profile hook remove_action( 'show_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); remove_action( 'show_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); // Remove from edit_user_profile hook remove_action( 'edit_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); remove_action( 'edit_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); // Add to edit_user_avatar hook add_action( 'edit_user_avatar', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); add_action( 'edit_user_avatar', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); } // Loads only outside of administration panel if ( ! is_admin() ) { add_action( 'init','my_avatar_filter' ); } HTML Wrapper You can change the HTML wrapper of the One User Avatar section by using the functions wpua_before_avatar and wpua_after_avatar. By default, the avatar code is structured like this: Avatar Edit Image Original Size Thumbnail Default Avatar Undo To strip out the div container and h3 heading, you would add the following filters to the functions.php file in your theme: remove_action( 'wpua_before_avatar', 'wpua_do_before_avatar' ); remove_action( 'wpua_after_avatar', 'wpua_do_after_avatar' ); To add your own wrapper, you could create something like this: function my_before_avatar() { echo ' '; } add_action( 'wpua_before_avatar', 'my_before_avatar' ); function my_after_avatar() { echo ' '; } add_action( 'wpua_after_avatar', 'my_after_avatar' ); This would output: Edit Image Original Size Thumbnail Default Avatar Undo