This plugin allows you to automatically add Gravatars for commenters to your\ntheme, if your theme does not already support them.<\/p>\n\n
According to the Gravatar.com website, Gravatars are Globally Recognized\nAvatars, or an \"avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog\nappearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.\" \nYou register with the Gravatar server, and upload an image which you will\nuse as your avatar. The gravatar image is keyed to your email address, so\nthat it is unique to you.<\/p>\n\n
This plugin will display gravatars for the people who comment on your posts.\nYou do not need to modify any of your template files -- just activate the\nplugin, and it will add gravatars to your comments template automatically.<\/p>\n\n
Based on a code snippet from Matt Mullenweg:\n http:\/\/photomatt.net\/2007\/10\/20\/gravatar-enabled\/\n http:\/\/pastebin.ca\/743979<\/p>\n\n
Props to David Potter for pointing out that Gravatar normalizes email\naddresses to lowercase before hashing with MD5:\n http:\/\/dpotter.net\/Technical\/index.php\/2007\/10\/22\/integrating-gravatar-support\/<\/p>\n\n\n
Copy the easygravatars folder and its contents to your wp-content\/plugins\ndirectory, then activate the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
The plugin will add a new Easy Gravatars section under the Options menu.\nThere, you can configure the size and maximum rating of the gravatars that\nyou wish to display. You can also set the location of a default image to\ndisplay for users who have no gravatar (the default is a 1px transparent\ngif), you can tweak the CSS for the wrapper around the image, and you can\nselect to attach the gravatar to either the comment author link, or the text\nof the comment.<\/p>\n\n
By default, the gravatar is floated to the right of the comment author's\nname, which should work well with most templates.<\/p>\n\n\n
The Gravatar service allows you to register multiple email addresses. Make\nsure that the email address you use in your WordPress comments matches an\nemail address registered on the Gravatar server.<\/p>\n\n
Also, check the rating of your gravatar versus the maximum allowed rating in\nthe Easy Gravatar options. If your gravatar is rated 'R', but you set the\nmaximum Easy Gravatar rating to 'PG', the image will be blocked.<\/p><\/dd>\n
In some cases, there have been reports that Internet Explorer 6.0 does not\ndisplay gravatars properly. This is probably due to CSS bugs in IE6. I will\ntry to isolate this as time allows, but the best advice is for users to\nupgrade to IE7 (for security and better standards support), or to use\nanother browser, like Firefox or Opera.<\/p><\/dd>\n
You may have another plugin which is conflicting with Easy Gravatars. In\nparticular, Joost de Valk's Google Analytics plugin version 1.3 also tried\nto modify the comment author link. Upgrade to version 1.4 or higher of his\nplugin, or select the \"Comment Text\" API hook in Easy Gravatar's Advanced\nOptions.<\/p><\/dd>\n
The placement of the Gravatars within your comments template is controlled\nby the The default options should work fine with most WordPress templates, but\nthere's always the chance that a template with a complex layout might have a\nconflict. If simply changing the API hook selection doesn't give a result\nwhich is to your liking, you will need to modify the CSS in the span style.<\/p>\n\n Sorry, but help with CSS styling is beyond the scope of this document.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, WordPress 2.5 added native support for Gravatars. However, older themes\ndon't support them. If you are using a theme which doesn't already support\nadding Gravatars, you either need to modify the templates yourself, or use\nEasy Gravatars to add them automatically for you.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nSpan style<\/code> and API hook<\/code> options. The gravatar is rendered as an\nimage tag within a span, which is prepended to either the comment author\ninformation or the text of the comment, depending on the hook selected.<\/p>\n\n1.3 2010-01-14<\/h4>\n\n
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