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Author Avatars List/Block

By Paul Bearne

Community & Social / User-Generated Content

Author Avatars List/Block Review - In-Depth Analysis

Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. Supports Gutenberg and various user roles.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.49/10

User Rating

4.8/5 (based on 32+ reviews)

Active Installations

4,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars, grouped by user roles, on your multiuser site. It also allows you to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page, great for displaying an image of someone you are talking about.

It makes use of built-in WordPress core functions to retrieve user information and get avatars. Integrates with Gutenberg, BuddyPress, xprofile, Multisite, Wpmu, BBPress, and co-authors.

Avatar lists can be inserted into your sidebar by adding a widget or into posts/pages by using a shortcode. The plugin comes with a tinymce editor plugin which makes inserting shortcodes very easy.

This also provides Gutenberg Block for use with the Gutenberg editor. Both the shortcode and widget and Gutenberg Block can be configured to show a custom title, only show specific user groups, limit the number of users shown, change the sort order, adjust the size of user avatars, and show a user’s name or biography.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Author Avatars List/Block plugin.

User avatars

Avatar display

Gutenberg support

Screenshots

FAQ

A shortcode is a tag like [authoravatars] which you can insert into a page or post to display a list of users on that post/page. You can read more about shortcodes in general in the wordpress codex, for example here or here.

The styling of the widget is controlled by the styles defined in css/widgets.css, avatars on posts/pages (using the shortcode) are styled by code in css/shortcode.css.

You can override the styles in that file by copying a style block to your theme’s style.css and adjusting respectively. For example add the following to remove the padding from avatars displayed in a widget:

html .widget_author_avatars .author-list .user {   padding: 0; }

demo edit

Contributors and developers

“Author Avatars List/Block” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Paul Bearne

Ben

Free Version Docs

WPS

6.49

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.8 out of 5 | 32

Version

2.1.25

Last updated

5 months ago

Active installations

4,000+

WordPress version

6.9.0 or higher

PHP version

or higher

Languages

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Author Avatars List/Block Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (32)

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Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (4)

WPS

6.49

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