Tag Archives: avatars

WordPress 2.5 RC1

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. [...]

Easy Gravatars 1.2

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. [...]

WordPress 2.5 Beta

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. [...]

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

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. [...]

Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics Plugin

Several people have reported problems using my Easy Gravatars plugin together with Joost de Valk’s Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. [...]

Easy Gravatars Plugin

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. [...]

Gravatars

Even before the recent announcement about Gravatar joining Automattic, I had been wanting to turn on comment avatars here. [...]