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sem-author-image

Author Image

Lets you easily add author images on your site.

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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Not for novices or the faint-hearted!

Not for novices or the faint-hearted!: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I installed Author Image hoping it would display the image the way Gravatars are displayed for those authors without a Gravatar image.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
Plugin Image Folder

Plugin Image Folder: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Plugin Image Folder Hi, On managed hosting (for example, pantheon), the wp-content folder is not writeable, where the uploads is (to prevent hacking attempts – segregation).
question support · high severity · relevance 0.83
Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions

Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions: users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions Hi there, We just update your plugin from v4.2, and suddenly things seem changed in a big way.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.83
Author Image not visible

Author Image not visible: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Author Image not visible I really don’t know if this problem has any concern to WordPress version or not.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.82
[Plugin: Author Image] Updated to WP 3.3 and author images no longer appear

[Plugin: Author Image] Updated to WP 3.3 and author images no longer appear: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
[Plugin: Author Image] Updated to WP 3.3 and author images no longer appear The image is broken and when I view source HTML I see the following as the image url (xxxx out my site and path) <img alt=”” src=” http://xxxxx/wp-content/authors/Array”> ; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-author-image/ The image is broken and when I view source HTML I see the
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.79
Plugin abandoned?

Plugin abandoned?: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Hi Mike – great plugin, are you still maintaining it?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
After updating to 4.9.2 image disappear from homepage

After updating to 4.9.2 image disappear from homepage: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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See if the 4.9.3 version works correctly then.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
html in author bio

html in author bio: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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But whether I just enter a double return or put in paragraph tags, the bio displays as one solid block.
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
How to check if Author image is blank

How to check if Author image is blank: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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I tried this and it does not work: <?php $author = get_userdata( get_query_var('author') );?> <?php if ( !empty($author->the_author_image) ) { ?> <?php the_author_image();?> <?php } ?> but it does not work.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Help with creating short code

Help with creating short code: users show performance, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Help with creating short code Hi, I’m trying to create short code to use in the wordpress admin content editors.

Competitor Context

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WP Author, Date and Meta Remover weak incumbent · intel 81.8 · weakness 75.9
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating migration missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Edit Author Slug weak incumbent · intel 80.3 · weakness 70.9
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Starbox – the Author Box for Humans weak incumbent · intel 78.3 · weakness 68.9
weak incumbent
stale update history 14 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test users roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure
Meks Smart Author Widget weak incumbent · intel 78.0 · weakness 68.6
weak incumbent
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure
Mooberry Book Manager praise owner · intel 76.3 · weakness 67.0
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Authors Widget praise owner · intel 75.5 · weakness 66.2
praise owner
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Author Bio Box praise owner · intel 75.0 · weakness 65.7
praise owner
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Smart User Slug Hider praise owner · intel 74.3 · weakness 65.0
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure

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Collected Signals

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complaint GDPR compliance Questions (Author Image) support · 2018-05-15T12:47:59+00:00 · medium severity · author

GDPR compliance Questions (Author Image): users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: GDPR compliance Questions (Author Image) Hi, i have a few important questions about the plugin.
migration import content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Plugin abandoned? support · 2017-09-27T20:25:54+00:00 · high severity · author

Plugin abandoned?: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi Mike – great plugin, are you still maintaining it?
security quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Php 7 compatibility? support · 2016-05-21T14:48:35+00:00 · medium severity · author

Php 7 compatibility?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Php 7 compatibility?
compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Could be better (2 stars) review · 2016-05-12T06:32:40+00:00 · medium severity · author

Could be better: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This is also important because it would allow us to make use of the WordPress image sizes we have defined elsewhere.
migration import content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Problems with pagination support · 2016-04-19T10:58:57+00:00 · medium severity · author

Problems with pagination: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Waiting for your help, thanks!
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
praise Why doesn't this plugin use the media library to select the author image? support · 2016-04-08T00:53:48+00:00 · medium severity · author

Why doesn't this plugin use the media library to select the author image?: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: What I’m referring to here is as such – on the ‘edit profile’ page of the WordPress dashboard, the user is currently made to click on the ‘choose file’ button and select a file directly from their computer.
value dashboard content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
praise Avatar size by default support · 2016-02-05T16:39:27+00:00 · medium severity · author

Avatar size by default: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Other than that, great plugin!
quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Requirement Not Documented support · 2016-02-02T18:43:48+00:00 · medium severity · author

Requirement Not Documented: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Requirement Not Documented Just ran into an issue where I was getting errors after uploading a new image.
bugs setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint Retrieving Author Url NOT WORKING support · 2015-11-12T18:33:25+00:00 · medium severity · author

Retrieving Author Url NOT WORKING: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: <?php the_author_image_url($author_id = null); ?> But it does not create a link to the all the author’s posts.
compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
complaint After updating to 4.9.2 image disappear from homepage support · 2015-09-05T18:19:47+00:00 · medium severity · author

After updating to 4.9.2 image disappear from homepage: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: See if the 4.9.3 version works correctly then.
compatibility support reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
neutral Fix for notice if a user doesn't have a user_login support · 2015-08-30T01:21:11+00:00 · low severity · author

Fix for notice if a user doesn't have a user_login: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fix for notice if a user doesn't have a user_login In static function get_meta($author_id) a failsafe would help before the line $author_login = $user->user_login; if (empty( $user->user_login )) { return false; } https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ In static function get_meta($author_id) a failsafe would help before the line $author_login = $use
support login content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
neutral WordPress 4.3 deprecated notice support · 2015-08-19T08:58:02+00:00 · medium severity · author

WordPress 4.3 deprecated notice: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: in #PATH#/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3457 https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0!
bugs compatibility form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
question Frontend Upload support · 2015-05-12T09:30:47+00:00 · medium severity · author

Frontend Upload: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Frontend Upload Is there a way to upload the author image through a frontend user page? https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ Is there a way to upload the author image through a frontend user page? https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ No this is not possible. As you need to have backend access as an author, why wouldn’t you just upload t
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
mixed Author Image not visible support · 2015-03-17T06:52:37+00:00 · high severity · author

Author Image not visible: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Author Image not visible I really don’t know if this problem has any concern to WordPress version or not.
bugs compatibility missing feature value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
mixed Help with creating short code support · 2015-01-06T15:12:44+00:00 · medium severity · author

Help with creating short code: users show performance, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Help with creating short code Hi, I’m trying to create short code to use in the wordpress admin content editors.
performance support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
neutral create a non echo version support · 2015-01-03T00:20:22+00:00 · low severity · author

create a non echo version: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: create a non echo version In the code you only have function the_author_image($author_id = null) { echo author_image::get($author_id, null); } You should add function get_author_image($author_id = null) { return author_image::get($author_id, null); } Where I need it, I want to return a string. I’m not ready for it to echo yet. https://wordpress.org/plugins/s
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
mixed Plugin Image Folder support · 2014-11-11T05:49:35+00:00 · high severity · author

Plugin Image Folder: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin Image Folder Hi, On managed hosting (for example, pantheon), the wp-content folder is not writeable, where the uploads is (to prevent hacking attempts – segregation).
security bugs compatibility migration content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
question Not working, anywhere :( support · 2014-10-29T01:00:20+00:00 · low severity · author

Not working, anywhere :(: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Not working, anywhere :( For some reason this is showing the default image for everyone everywhere. Even in the comments list it’s showing the default image even though it’s been set up right. Since the last update this has started happening, not sure what to do. What can I do? 🙁 https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ For some reason this is showing
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
question Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions support · 2014-10-09T23:23:58+00:00 · high severity · author

Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions: users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Updated leaves things broken – empty image, missing links, missing versions Hi there, We just update your plugin from v4.2, and suddenly things seem changed in a big way.
bugs missing feature migration backup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
neutral Cannot change image support · 2014-09-22T12:54:59+00:00 · low severity · author

Cannot change image: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Cannot change image If i try to change image of authors, but nothing happen. https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ If i try to change image of authors, but nothing happen. https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-author-image/ I was not able to duplicate this problem. I was successfully able to delete and existing image plus also upload a new image over a
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live