Recent content by michaelwm

My site is pulling RSS news information from one of our public boards to display on the splash page (an announcements box of sorts). I would like to post an image of the avatar of the user who wrote the news thread. The RSS feed includes the name of the user who wrote the thread, but not their...

is there anyway for me to get the user id of a user straight from their username? For example, convert my username (michaelwm) to my user # (1). I want to do this specifically to get the user avatars, as their url's use the user ids. If this is possible, can I do in vanilla html, or do I require...