Gravatars make blogging fun!
A gravatar is a small avatar image that appears beside your name when you comment on blogs. It uses your email address to associate your unique icon with your comment. Cool right?
All you do is sign up for a free Gravatar account and upload your graphic. Then, anywhere you leave (or already left) a comment, you’ll see your image!
Of course, it only works on Gravatar enabled sites. And The Twaddle is enabled! Hurray!
Tech Stuff
The rest of this is for those who want to enable this on their own blogs.
I went through a bit of trial and error when I first installed Gravatar on this blog. So, I’m going to give a quick tutorial for anyone who wants to install this on their blog too.
First I went to the Gravatar site for Word Press and downloaded the plugin. I followed the installation instructions. Then I went into my themes folder, found the comments.php file and stuck this code
<img src="<?php gravatar("R", 40); ?>" alt="" />
next to the commenter’s name div. I messed around with inserting this code in the right spot until the gravatar rested neatly at the left. That’s it!
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Hey, I don't want this picture. What gives?
I had my gravatar enabled today. cool~
Cool! I like the cartoon-look. I should find a cartoon that looks like me. Awesome. I love web stuff!
I got my cartoon avatar created here!
See this?!? I have one too
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Comment Update: This doesn’t work for me anymore.
Also, if you want an easy way to get users to sign up for a Gravatar, install Tempus Fugit’s Gravatar Signup WordPress plugin. This plugin will add a checkbox to your comment area.
When a user checks the box, they’re automatically signed up for a free Gravatar! They’ll get an email notice (as long as they provided a real email address in the comment form).
See it in use! Look in the comment section below!
I can’t get mine to work.
OK, I got it now. Plus, I added this function to my site. This DOES make blogging fun!
Yes! Congrats Mike! I checked out your blog the other day - very nice. I’ll need to spend a little more time checking out the whole thing.