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Does anyone know any screencast links or tutorials or any helpful information on showing how to set up avatar block with latest people who joined the site. I have new members already choose avatar when they join, but I would like to set up a block where it shows small avatars of latest people who joined. ( similar to twitter followers block on the right column ). And maybe linking to the page with all avatars if possible.
I saw that there were avatar module but it's only for drupal 5. I'm running version 6 and I can't find anything including modules that show how this is done.
Thank you all in advance.
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Use Views module... make a
Use Views module... make a new User-based view, add the user picture as the field. Add sorting that puts recently registered users first, and limit the number of results to return. You may want to include the Imagecache Profiles module which lets you make smaller thumbnail images of user pictures.
Any tutorial or screencasts
Hi David,
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I'm still learning Drupal kind of. I'm fairly familiar with CCK and views and have set up blocks and stuff and created different type of content, but adding avatars and filtering might be a little over my head. I was hoping I could find some kind of tutorial or screencast. I'm sure I would have been able to follow it and create such a block if I saw actual steps. However without any guidance I probably mess it up. You wouldn't know any tutorials online addressing this specific topic by any chance? I can't seem to find anything that might help me work this out. Thank you again for your help.
Gene
I'm writing a tutorial about
I'm writing a tutorial about it to put in the Drupal documentation. I'll let you know when it's complete (probably later today).
Tutorial complete
New tutorial complete: Create Avatar blocks of new and currently online users
Enjoy! :)
Thank you
Hi David,
Thank you for your tutorial. I was able to follow your instructions and set it up. It was fairly easy, I'm surprised there is not too many tutorials about this on the web already.
However, I have a related question. Not sure if you can help. I have avatar module running and in the settings I have these options checked:
-Force users to select an avatar image on user registration.
-Force users to select an avatar image when editing their account
-Enable random default avatar image.
However it seems when one registers default avatar is not assigned. And if someone doesn't choose image, it's not assigning anything and only says "user's picture" in the display. Do you know what setting I need to change or what I have to do so user would always have avatar and if he doesn't choose one, default will always be assigned. I added default avatars to all the profiles in manage avatars.
It seems by things I checked it should be working, but it's not.
Thank you for your help.
Gene
Awesome
Thank you. That's perfect, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Without Views
If anyone wants this or something similar without using views module then try the latest members drupal module - http://drupal.org/project/latest_members