This is a very good plugin!

One suggestion: since this plugin can work with gAuthor plugin, why not make the avatar image also link to the author's description page? At least, make this as a new option.

Thanks.

Thanks so much. Now I can finish my site.

Unlike other plugins, this one does not need 3rd party plugins to work. Installation is a breeze and if you use standard templates, is most likely takes less than 2 minutes to set up as the avatar can be inserted into the document flow.

If not, you have a third layout option: advanced templating. The site does not help with a description what this means so I had to look through the source: it adds a 'avatar' parameter holding the HTML for the avatar to the 'article' object.

Adding the avatar in advanced mode is simply adding something like this to your template:

article->avatar) { echo $this->article->avatar; } ?>

Cheers for this handy plugin!

This plugin is nice. It installed simply and working without any trouble or breaking template. I've just tested Opera, Firefox, chrome & IE8. Float left/right option is really helpful. I wish it could integrate with Community Builder & link to profile. It would be super.

It seems to work well as described - so no complaints! It also doesn't require the User Metadata extension, like the Gravatar extension - which is why I don't want to bother with that one.

However, this could use a few enhancements to be more useful and impressive. For example, I only want the avatar next to blog-style articles, or possibly only for articles in certian categories/sections.

Also, the ability to put the avater up next to the article title/date/author info above the content would be good, as many of my articles already have an article-related image floating to the left or right of the first paragraph.

If these capabilities were added, it would be much more useful. But as I said, it's a great start!