Gravatars!

Thanks to Dou­gal Campbell’s Easy Gra­vatars ver­sion 1.1 plu­gin, I now have gra­vatars. Gra­vatars are “glob­ally recog­nized avatars” another name for per­sonal image icons. Sign up with Gra­vatar (now part of Automat­tic, the com­pany behind Word­press), upload an icon, and it will appear here and any­where else that has them enabled.

Gra­vatar had some scale-up issues in the past, mak­ing the image serv­ing slow. But the acqui­si­tion by Automat­tic has greatly expanded their capa­bil­ity and images issues are a thing of the past.

This plu­gin makes gra­vatars easy for Word­press blogs and no php tem­plates have to be fid­dled with. Just install the plu­gin, acti­vate it and you’re done!

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2 Responses to “Gravatars!”

  • Lanni Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    thanks for link­ing this, i always wanted gra­vatars but never under­stood how to install them!

    but i did have to do an over­haul on my self-made tem­plete, because the com­ment part that i designed didn’t really work with them. so it wasn’t that easy. lol.

  • Tom Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 7:35 am

    Yeah, I’ve never really got­ten into the guts of Word­press (on pur­pose) so the orig­i­nal solu­tions weren’t some­thing I wanted to do. The plu­gin made all the dif­fer­ence. The next step is upgrade to 2.3.1.