Gravatars
Sunday, 21 November 2004
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
I regularly look at the weblogs that link to mine. Simply because I want to know what people write about me, but also because they often contain very useful information. Today I came across Redemption in a blog and the journal of John Hicks, the creator of the Firefox logo.
Off topic: John, thanks for featuring my wallpapers in the sidenotes on your weblog. It’s quite an honour.
Both supported Gravatars, a neat little feature which was up till now entirely unknown to me.
From gravatar.com
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
I’ve decided to add gravatar support to my weblog too. If you want to comment on one of my entries simply include your email address in the right field of the comment form and you gravatar will automatically appear next to your comment. If you’re worried about giving out your e-mail address, don’t worry. It will not be displayed anywhere on this website and I am never going to give them out to anybody.
In order to achieve support for Gravatars in Nucleus, I’ve created a little Nucleus plugin. It’s GPLed and can be downloaded from the Nucleus Plugins section of this website.
I love the way you’ve implemented gravatars on your blog. Quite clean.
Would you mind if I added a link to your Nucleus Gravatar plugin to the Implementor’s Guide at gravatar.com? I’m trying to make it as comprehensive as possible.
Tom: no problem… link to anything you want.
Yes indeed very clean.
Very nice site overall as well.
And I love those wallpapers!
Wohoo, I have a gravatar!
I just love this design, it is amazing!
Say hello to Gravatar!
I love your Firefox wallpapers – I’ve had one on my office desktop since I first saw them. And great work with the Nucleus plugin. Finding someone who can design AND code is so rare I just gotta say I’m amazed by your work here.
Can i "stole" your gravatar’s default?
If you disagree, mail-me and i change it … Thanx a lot!
You have the best get firefox avatatars – mind if I use one?
Well too late.
TY for the Gravitar tip. :)
This feature was entirely unknown to me as well.
I’m a developer for e107 which is a CMS written in php/mysql started by my good friend Steve aka (Jalist). Since reading your post here, I’ve signed up at gravatar.com and started adding the required code to our avitar system on http://e107themes.com, makeing it gravitar aware. If all goes well perhaps I can get this code into CVS befor our next release..
How about Favatars?
I know it’s been out there for an awfully long time, so this problem may just be me, but when I tried to install your Gravatar Nucleus plugin, it wouldn’t work. After a little investigation, I discovered the permissions on NP_Gravatar.php were set to 600, unreadable by group/world. Changing it to 644, readable by all, which was what my other plugin files were set to, got it working. If this isn’t an isolated incident, it might be helpful to others to set the permissions on the linked file ahead of time. Thanks for a great plugin (and for beautifying the world with such a lovely blog design!).
Sorry that I’m writting here, but I have problem with your Nucleus plugin NP_Gravatar. There is no support of characters with diacritic (such as ěščřžýá) in the name of user. Maybe you will understand me better, when you take a look at title of my avatar of this comment or for example at this comment: http://jaros.ezin.cz/item/jak-mi-blogovani-zmenilo-zivot#c1
Sorry for my poor english.