This WordPress Blog Has Been “Gravatar”-ized!
On some blogs, you might have already noticed an icon displayed before the author’s name in the comments area - a so-called avatar.
I always wanted to implement this feature on my blog, too - but I never really knew how this was done.
Actually, I thought that this would be a really difficult task.
Was each of those blogs hosting its own avatar system?
No - it is quite simple!
It turns out that some clever person already thought about this and created a website that hosts your avatar(s). The small avatar icons hosted there can easily be implemented on your blog via http-request that contains a unique hash of the author’s email (and some options).
Well, and because each avatar on that server is a globally recognized avatar, it is simply called a… Gravatar!
Plugins for several blog authoring systems are available that create the image URL for the “src=”-attribute of the “<img>”-tag.
- Official Gravatar website:
site.gravatar.com - Article about how to implement Gravatars on your WordPress blog:
codex.wordpress.org/Using_Gravatars
Note:
It might be possible that the gravatars do not show up - I guess gravatar.com is experiencing some problems from time to time.
If it is working, you should see my gravatar on the next line:
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