Easier Gravatars
Dougal Campbell provided a much nicer implementation for adding gravatars to your comments called Easy Gravatars. This solution doesn’t even require you to modify your theme files. Very cool!
I made a few improvements to his solution:
- Improved admin page layout, including more verbose descriptions of each of the options.
- Added Reset button to the admin page to delete all the options from the database.
- Added ability to display a border around the gravatar image.
- Display image as a link to the comment author’s web site (thanks to Elaine Vigneault for the idea).
Updates
A new update is now available based on Dougal’s version 1.2 plugin.
Resources
- Easy Gravatars Plugin by Dougal Campbell
EasyGravatars-1.2.1.zip (6.2 KiB, 185 hits)
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Aw, you’re welcome
Good mods you made there. Glad to see it.
And now I will test your gravatars plugin here
I’m just following Elaine there.. testing this gravatar thing
I have not installed mine.. but after this I guess, I have too
Thanks for the plugin. I like the upgraded features you added. Works great on WP2.3.1. I am using it with the Highlight author comments plugin.
I will have a look at this later today. I don’t understand what you mean when you say you added the ability to add a border around the gravatar. I already had that up myself. I just added the border: css code to the code line. I haven’t looked at your version yet, so maybe it’s a wording thing and those who need a bit more hand holding can have it with yours. I know how to do a lot of things in my blog, but anything that makes it faster and easier is great in my book. And I was missing the option of my gravatars linking to the comment author’s site. I had that option with my previous use and I’m glad to see it back with your addition.
HT to Elaine for linking over here in her blog.
I’m having trouble with this - if the poster leaves a short, one line commnet, I’m having to manually edit the comment and add
to keep the gravatar from “over-flowing” the post box, and then messing up everything below it. Any ideas?clear:bothstyle, although that didn’t completely solve the problem for me. Another thing to look at is Lorelle’s latest release of Easy Gravatars and then to specify that the gravatar should be displayed in the content. I’ve tested it out but he didn’t incorporate the features I added so I still have some work to do.