Gravatar Support Added
Gravatars (Globally Recognised Avatars) is a service that lets you display a small image of your choice in your comment on blogs that support Gravatars.
I’ve installed the Gravatar plugin on my blog and modified the CSS and the comments.php file to make the Gravatars display. (I’ll post a tutorial later.) This is how it looks:
George set a Gravatar for himself a long time ago (his blog also supports it) so it shows up along with mine. The ugly blue images indicate that those people haven’t signed up with the service yet. (I will replace them with something less ugly soon.) I’m not forcing you to sign up but I hope you do.
How Does This Work?
You enter an email address along with your site address and username in the comments field to leave comments on blogs. The Gravatar service installed on the blog looks at email addresses and if your email address is in the database then your Gravatar is displayed.
How Do I Sign Up?
The process is extremely simple. Go here and enter your email address (the one that you use in the comments section of blogs). Confirm the email address, upload an image and choose it for that email address. That’s it. Your Gravatar will be automatically displayed on all blogs that support it.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
It’s nice, easy to make out comments with the Gravatar installed. Arun (tdsmapper) has it enabled too.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Change the blue pic to something else. No, I will not sign up.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Cool I will sign up.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Ok so I set a transparent GIF image as the default image (instead of the blue image) which is a totally brilliant idea. So if you don’t have a gravatar your comment will appear without it and not display any placeholder images.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Yay I have one. Link me the plugin am too lazy to search.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Search for it or wait for it to be reviewed at Ampli5.org.
I had some trouble with transparent images not behaving like they were supposed to so I set the default image as a 1×1 pixel and it’s much better now.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I don’t hate you or anything, Marc, but it’s right there on the Plugins tab in Wordpress, so I’ll just link him: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easygravatars/
January 19th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Gravatars are looking great!
January 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I know it’s right there but I’m not going to be bothered. He could have just searched for it.
Thanks Kyle. Kyle is the one who suggested we all use gravatars in our WordPress blogs. Funny that his own gravatar doesn’t display. He probably used some other email address.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Peer pressure… I’m getting it too.
*mutters something about a conformist state we live in*
January 19th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Vetti Marc.
January 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Isha, now to apply peer pressure on Anusha to sign up too…
January 19th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
She’s in France, it shouldn’t be hard to make her cave in.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Hi pal i have a doubt will this work in blospot bloggers???If so where can i find its plugins…
January 20th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hahahaha! Is that a World War 2 reference, George?
Aravindhan, it will definitely not work on Blogspot.
January 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
No Nirula’s cookies for you Georgeous!
Marc, make her conform yourself. Why should I bother?
January 20th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I couldn’t help it Marc
Noooo Isha! I wants cookies!
January 21st, 2008 at 7:34 pm
What does living in France have to do with it?
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
World War 2 reference. France surrendered.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Georgeous… No cookies. I eats thems alls ups.
The Gravatars look kinda funny. Pixelish and all.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 am
U HAD A COOKIEZ. BUT YOU EATED DEM.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
Gravatars pixelated? How? Smaller version of large images.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Marc, I’m saying it once. I am not French, neither do I behave like them. For the love of God, let it go!
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I caved =(….
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
good job
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I hope you didn’t mean me. It was stupid pressure and I caved!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
it’s nothing to be ashamed about. We all like to cave.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Ah, this looks much better than blank spaces. Very nice.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
You should hear Marc’s reason for wanting this in the first place.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
what’s the reason?
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Why, it is quite simple. Each of those images has a tracking script attached. At first it will only report what you’re doing on your computer, but in time you will find yourself inexplicably returning to this blog, like lemmings to water.
Don’t worry, it’s quite painless. You won’t feel a thing.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
didn’t we do that before the Gravatar business anyway?
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 am
The reason I stated was that it would be easier to tell the author of a comment at a glance.
I am working on a new script that will automatically steal your passwords and email then to me. Easy and convenient to use. Until then please bear with me.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hehe, wouldn’t do you much good. You’d have more spam to deal with.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Of course not, Anusha, you’d have your gmail.fr inbox for show then, and all those sordid tales involving fries, cheese and les escargots will be laid bare for the rest of us.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Nice try, but I don’t have a gmail.fr account, I’m still with a gmail.com one. The only spam in my gmail account unfortunately has nothing to do with the escargots (George, you really should eat them if you can, they are so delicious!!).
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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Nutcases. All of you. Except Roshan. *cough*
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Snails! Gross.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hey, it usually takes people a lot longer than a few weeks to come to that conclusion about me, Isha.
I didn’t ask you to eat it, Marcus. I recommended them to George.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
People need only two minutes with me to come to that conclusion. So sad.
And snails actually taste disgusting. That’s why I don’t like France. Well, yeah, and Paris is pretty dirty too. And the Eiffel-tower is overrated. But Germany…… Germany’s great. Boozed chocolates. Need I say more?
January 24th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Anusha, you want George to try those disgusting slimy things that no other creature on this planet will eat? I’m cool with that. George, do as she says.
Isha, being nuts is good. The alternative is being normal and boring. A typical engineering student in Tamilnadu to be precise.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Germany specialises in liqueur flavoured chocolates? I’d rather have the liqueur alone I guess.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Ok, first of all they are not disgusting slimy things. They actually taste really good, because of the sauce that’s added to them. It’s the oysters that are disgusting because they are eaten alive and how the people consider them to be a potent aphrodisiac, I’ll never understand.
Isha, I know. The chocolates my room mate gave me were awesome!! Her parents even brought in beer from their region and that was better than everything else I’ve ever had.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Oysters? Eaten alive? Seriously?! That is the most disgusting thing ever. Right after the Japanese eating seafood from their plate while it still wriggles.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Oi, I love Sushi. Japanese food is wonderful!
Anusha, whenever I came back to Chennai from Germany I brought those chocolates. Heavenly!
Marc, they don’t just taste of booze, they’re filled with it.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I know, eaten plenty of those. Cherry brandy and rum and what not. The problem is we don’t know how cherry brandy tastes like since we get only rancid arrack here.
My point is, if you had wine flavoured something but you didn’t know how wine tasted like, it would be kind of pointless. For example.
Sushi? Really? Ew.