Gravatars Are Go

October 25th, 2007

I’ve been following the RSS feeds in the admin panel of my WordPress installation lately - especially regarding Gravatar (the site which provides Globally Recognized Avatars that can be used across any Gravatar-compatible site, much like a forum icon). I saw Matt Mullenweg’s post about Automattic’s purchase of Gravatar. Then I saw his post which enabled Gravatars on his personal blog. Apparently, so did Dougal Campbell, who has cooked up a wonderful little Easy Gravatars Plugin using Matt’s code snippet. Thanks to these guys, I signed up and made a Gravatar, and now Gravatars are enabled on my comments. My guess is that this will soon be incorporated into WordPress - but for now, get with the program! Make a Gravatar - it will appear on my site when you comment. Then set your blog up to use them, and they’ll appear on yours too! Yay!

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  • See? My current Gravatar is the Apple Japan seal that came on the top of my new computer. Geeky, no? I'll change it when I find something suitable. In the meantime, go get one for yourself. I set the default image to the Gravatar logo so that people can figure out what it's all about.
  • Hey, look at me! There I am. Gravatarin'.
  • Wow, nice website. I just saw that you commented on one of my blog post and thanks. BTW! Your website theme looks great, easy on the eyes. "I'm testin' my Gravatar!" :)
  • Michaels
    Umm...yeah. Don't even ask about mine.
  • So...what is yours? (And is anyone else noticing some weird formatting problems? Cause...that's not cool.)
  • Thanks for this plugin. I like the idea of it, and have installed it on my site, but it isn’t showing my gravatar in my comments.
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