Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 at 2:15 AM
I just implemented Gravatar support on Command-Tab. If you haven’t heard of them before (I hadn’t until recently), gravatars are up to 80×80 pixel images displayed alongside your name when you leave a comment on a website.
Gravatars differ from normal avatar images in that they are stored on a server — gravatar.com — and universally referenced by the email address you use to comment, as opposed to uploading the same image to multiple sites. Best of all, signup is free.
Enabling Gravatars was quite painless, with the installation of the WordPress gravatar plugin, and some minor editing of comments.php. The gravatars are visible on any post with comments, and anyone who has not yet signed up will have a default faceless icon (borrowed from digg).
This entry was posted
on Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 at 2:15 am and is filed under WordPress.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, trackback from your own site, or 
Stumble it!.
fmTuner: Last.fm for WordPress
ADB Mouse Conversion
iPod Super
And the best part is that once you sign up, websites you commented on in the past that have Gravatar support will show your picture even though you commented on them *before* getting a Gravatar … provided you entered your email address into the comment form, that is.
That’s pretty cool… I hadn’t thought of that! Now if only they would approve mine… it’s taking them forever..
This is a good way to do them Collin, by keeping them small. I’ve seen them where they are just poorly done and take away from the site.
They do some pretty cool stuff though, although I never really got into them.
BTW: It does take them a while to approve sometimes now that they are larger, so it’ll happen…when is the question ;).