Tag Archives: avatars

WordPress Wednesday Kick Off

By Dougal | Published: October 15, 2008

This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, app, article, Atom, avatar, branding, categories, CSS, Design, dom, feedburner, Feeds, Google, gravatar, gravatars, howto, improve web site, improve website, plugin, Plugins, Programming, redesign, RSS, Search Engine, search engine optimization, SEO, social networking sites, stickiness, sticky, subscribers, subscription, Syndication, Tags, Themes, traffic, WordPress | 5 Comments

WordPress 2.5 RC1

By Dougal | Published: March 18, 2008

The first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was announced last night. The adventurous among you can download it for testing. New features include:

Faster load times.
Multi-file uploads.
New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
Built-in gallery function.
Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
New backend design.
One-click auto-update for plugins.
Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ action. (my feature! )

As a long-time WordPress user and developer, the new design for the back-end admin screens threw me at first. [...]

Posted in Announcements, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, cms, contentmanagement, Gallery, gravatars, rc1, releasecandidate, testing, Upgrades, WordPress, wp25 | 39 Comments

Easy Gravatars 1.2

By Dougal | Published: March 6, 2008

Earlier today, I released Easy Gravatars version 1.2. The only change (besides confirming that works in WordPress 2.5, currently in beta, due out next week) is that when installed under WordPress 2.5 or newer, it will use the new core get_avatar() function to generate the image tag. And since get_avatar() is a pluggable function, other plugins could conceivably use it to generate avatar icons from other services, and Easy Gravatars would then use the new service too.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, don’t sweat it. [...]

Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 37 Comments

WordPress 2.5 Beta

By Dougal | Published: March 2, 2008

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.5 Beta. So far, everything appears to be working just fine.

And since I know lots of people will ask, I checked my plugins, and most of them (HeadMeta, Text Filter Suite, and Easy Gravatars), work just fine. The one that doesn’t work is Theme Preview. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, headmeta, plugin, Plugins, text-filter-suite, theme-preview, WordPress | 27 Comments

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

By Dougal | Published: November 16, 2007

My Easy Gravatars plugin is now in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ve released version 1.1.

Changes:

Gravatar images now link to comment author’s URL, if provided.
Gravatar code now prepended to text instead of appended.
Added stylesheet for options page and improved layout. Split options into
‘General’ and ‘Advanced’.
New advanced option for selecting either ‘Comment Author Link’ or ‘Comment
Text’ API hook.

When time allows, I’m going to try to add support for favicons on pingbacks and trackbacks, and maybe as a fallback for people without Gravatars. [...]

Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, plugin, Plugins, Releases, update, WordPress | 46 Comments

Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics Plugin

By Dougal | Published: November 9, 2007

Several people have reported problems using my Easy Gravatars plugin together with Joost de Valk’s Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. I spent some time looking over the code yesterday and found the conflict. I sent a patch to Joost, and he has released version 1.4 of his Google Analytics plugin. . [...]

Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged analytics, avatar, bugfix, easy-gravatars, Google, gravatar, gravatars, icons, patch, plugin, Plugins, SEO, WordPress | 7 Comments

Easy Gravatars Plugin

By Dougal | Published: October 24, 2007

Since so many people seemed to be interested, I went ahead and coded up my new Gravatars plugin: Easy Gravatars. It’s designed to be simple to use — just upload and activate. If you want it to be a little harder, you can visit the plugin’s options page to set the size and rating for the gravatars, and even set the location of a default image, and tweak the CSS a little bit.

Download: easygravatars.zip

I’m going to put it in the WordPress Plugin Repository when I get a chance. [...]

Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | 141 Comments

Gravatars

By Dougal | Published: October 22, 2007

Even before the recent announcement about Gravatar joining Automattic, I had been wanting to turn on comment avatars here. I nabbed Matt’s code, fooled with it a little, and now my comments are Gravatar enabled.

A couple of things that I discovered:

I was always getting the ‘default‘ image until I added a ‘rating‘ parameter.
The Gravatar server wasn’t serving up all sizes of my image until I re-uploaded it. [...]