If you commenters were wondering
May 12th, 2008, at 8:48 AM
By the way, last week I enabled gravatars on ye old blog. Gravatars (= globally recognized avatar) are a neat way of personalizing comments by associating your name (or email address, or some such) with a picture (a picture of anything). Personally, I think they’re really neat, but I am noticing that I’ve yet to have a commenter who uses them. So if you’re interested, go sign up for an account. It’s free and easy.
And if I can ever get Katie’s blogs upgraded to WordPress 2.5 (luddite), I’ll activate gravatars there, too.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Does mine show up?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Nope.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
That’s odd, because it’s the same service wordpress.com uses.
Hmm.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Maybe … are you sure you’re using the email address you use with your wordpress.com account? I think that’s how it’s supposed to work.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I have one. Take a look at the wordpress identicon plugin as well.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I wonder why yours works and Catherine’s doesn’t. Perhaps because you specifically signed up with gravatar?
May 13th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Got the identicons working. You don’t actually need an extension. You just have to add ‘identicon’ to the gravatar call in comments.php.
echo get_avatar($comment, 40, ‘identicon’);
May 13th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Glad you got the identicon to work. I tinkered w/ mine somewhat before I realized I don’t need to place any code w/ the identicon plugin to get gravitars to work. All I did was to enable the plugin and adjust its settings to use a commenter’s gravitar when they have one.