WP Gravatar Newbie

  • I have installed WP Gravatar v2.7.1 for use with WP v2.6.2.

    First… are these two compatible with one another… although it does seem to be working properly on my blog. Is there a better way to display avatars with WP 2.6.2 other than using this plugin?

    Second… I am admin with administrator privledges. I am also Charles and Carter Black with contributor privledges. My problem is I can only get the default admin gravatar to display. How can I get a gravatar for Carter Black to display when logged in as Carter Black and/or Charles?

    Thanks.
    -charles

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  • Thread Starter ccarter

    (@ccarter)

    My link is https://www.pioneerfamilies.us/wordpress

    If you want admin access I will be happy to provide that offline.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Don’t need admin access.

    And you don’t see any gravatars on that site because you don’t have any comments on any of the posts. Normally, gravatars display next to the comments on posts, to let you know who left the comment.

    Where on the page, exactly, do you want to see the gravatars?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    BTW, regarding your other question: Gravatars are tied to the email address. So, each person will get their gravatar displayed based on their email address. While I know little or nothing about the plugin in question, if it’s only showing default gravatars, then I’d bet that the users either a) don’t have a gravatar on gravatar.com or b) don’t have their email address set properly in their profile.

    Thread Starter ccarter

    (@ccarter)

    Is it possible when someone creates a post that a gravatar can be displayed or are they limited to only comments (when someone replies to a post)?

    Thread Starter ccarter

    (@ccarter)

    okay… I just replied to a post and I’ll be darned if it didn’t show up.

    It would be nice though if gravatars/avatars could be assigned to posts as well as comments. Do you know if this is a possibility?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Sure it’s possible. It just depends on where you want the gravatar to appear, exactly.

    Basically, you’re going to edit your theme to add another instance of that get_avatar code. Like, if you want it to appear on the single post page (what you normally get when you click a title of a post), then you’d edit the single.php and add some code like this to your post Loop:
    <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), 32 ); ?>
    And that will make it output the author’s gravatar, at 32 pixels per side.

    The question is really where do you want it to show up at, exactly? Because you need to add the code to the right place in your theme.

    Your theme controls what the site looks like. Any time you want to change the look for the site, you’re going to edit the theme.

    Thread Starter ccarter

    (@ccarter)

    Okay… thank you. I think I am finally beginning to get the getter.

    I will play around with this some and see what happens.

    -charles

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