Avalicious!

Avalicious! is a WordPress plugin that integrates LiveJournal and LJ-clone user avatars in WordPress comments. It is a functional re-write of Also LJ Avatar (itself a re-write of some even older plugins), with the following differences:

  • User avatars are downloaded via the cURL library, hopefully avoiding issues with hosts that disable remote URL includes (as they should);
  • The regexps for extracting avatars are significantly improved;
  • The user’s journal URL is extracted from a comment’s URL (not the name); and
  • The user’s name is not re-written.

The latest updates about the plug-ins development can be found here. To report a bug or request a feature, please use the tracker (not the comments on this page).

Or just download it already.

Show Your Support

Like Avalicious? We don’t take donations or anything like that, but if you want to show your support for the plug-in, the absolute best thing you can do is link to this page. Even if it’s just in a blog post. Seriously, it’s a big help.

Note that while this plugin is freely released under the GPL, obtaining official support for it will cost you a link. Cruel, I know.

Current Todo

The current list of tasks for the project is:

  • WP-Cron to clean up cached images after a certain length of time.
  • UI for a user-definable list of compatible journals.

Already Done…

Version 1.2.1
  • LiveJournal changed its userpic subdomain again…
Version 1.1
  • Fixed a small logic bug that was preventing the fetching of non-subdomain URLs.
Version 1.0
  • It lives! Honestly, I think this is the first plugin I’ve actually released at a whole-number version. Go me.

12 Comments on "Avalicious!"

Juno

12 comments

Cool! I’ll try it out. *beams*

Evanna

1 comment

Interesting! I really would like to use it ;)

Cynthia Armistead

2 comments

Hi there! Please excuse my ignorance, but I’m unclear on one issue. If I have Gravatars enabled on my blog, will your plugin add the ability to use LJ, Dreamweaver, etc. avatars, or will it replace the Gravatars with those other avatars? I have avatars in both places, and since I enabled Avalicious, neither are working. I’m just trying to be sure that I understand what is supposed to happen as I start troubleshooting.

Thanks!

Marchbanks

1 comment

It’d be really groovy if there were a way to limit the size of *Journal userpics; the LJ/DW default size displays bigger than my WP theme allows for, so you lose the first word or two of each comment under the avatar. (Or is there a way to do this that I haven’t found?)

I would have put this into the tracker as an enhancement request as specified, save that it requires a Google account to use the tool, and I refuse to have one a them.

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