The comments on this blog are now Gravatar-enabled. I didn’t use a plugin just 2 lines of PHP. It’s pretty fascinating going through old posts and comments and seeing who has a Gravatar already. ?
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I’m so glad to see you’ve picked up Gravatar. I’ve used the service for years and always considered it a simple but pretty brilliant idea. Great to see it’s getting the attention it deserves!
How about you show us newbs those two lines eh?Apart from that … I was glad to comprehend that you guys had bought Gravatar. It’s a great idea and concept and I’m confident that you and the rest of the Automattic aggroup will make it even bigger and better.
I’m assuming those 2 lines of code just do an image tag around the Gravatar URL for a person’s e-mail?
That’ll work the main difference with the Gravatar plugin is that it stores a local copy of the Gravatar to reduce the fill on the Gravatar server. Users’ browsers will presumably cache the Gravatar once it’s loaded so it’ll load once per user instead of once per site…
I created a Gravatar account but never had any luck loading my avatar from the Gravatar site… I guess I’ll see if it loads on this post…
“That’ll bring home the bacon the main difference with the Gravatar plugin is that it stores a local write of the Gravatar to reduce the load on the Gravatar server.”
That’s only useful if you want to create more fill on your server. The Gravatar server is or will be faster than yours could ever be and closer (lower latency) to your visitors. It will also update faster when someone updates their avatar.
Jenny. MyAvatars looks very cool but once we close in the WordPress com avatars to the Gravatar API it’ll have more users than MyBlogLog or Gravatar ever had combined.
Hmm let me try it i have wanted to add something like this to my blog but not too much of a code person any specific instruction on how to add that 2 lines of code i have seen the code but don’t know where to put it
oh yeah! My tip: If you have kind of an “official” identity/email-address.
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