=== Avalicious! ===
Contributors: alisdee
Tags: dreamwidth, livejournal, social, users, avatars, comments
Requires at least: 2.7.1
Tested up to: 2.9.2
Stable tag: 1.2.2

A WordPress plugin that integrates LiveJournal and LJ-clone user avatars in WordPress comments.

== Description ==

**Avalicious!** is a WordPress plugin that integrates LiveJournal and LJ-clone (e.g. Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal, JournalFen) user avatars in WordPress comments. It is a functional re-write of [Also LJ Avatar](http://alltrees.org/Wordpress/#ALA "Alltrees' 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 [in the project blog](http://void-star.net/category/geeking/wordpress/avalicious/ "Avalicious! @ void-star.net").

= Version 1.2.2 =

* Dreamwidth icons should now work again.

= Version 1.2.1 =

* LiveJournal changed its userpic subdomain again...
* Dummy code for a cron function to clean old avatars added, but not yet live.

= 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.


== Installation ==

1. Upload the `avalicious` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory;
1. If required, make the `avalicious/danga-icons` directory writable (though the plugin should work without it);
1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress;
1. ...
1. Profit!

== Credits ==

**Avalicious!** is based off the original [Also LJ Avatar](http://alltrees.org/Wordpress/#ALA "Alltrees' Also LJ Avatar") by Ravenwood and Irwin. No disrespect is intended towards the original authors; without their great work, this plugin wouldn't have been possible (or at least would've taken a hell of a lot longer to write).