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Gravatar Add-On?
Hey people, does anyone have a gravatar add on for Vanilla Forums?
It looks like it shouldn't be too difficult, but damned if my PHP is good enough to actually do it :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 at 10:51PM
http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/
(so it's much speedier)
What if I don't have a universal address?
(I have 12 at last count!)
its official your qwazy
get all 12 of em a gavatar
I am webmaster for a number of sites, they all have their domain-specific email address.
Then there's addresses I use for personal friends and I work for a number of companies and they all insist on giving me an email address for corresponding with clients on their behalf, then there's a Hotmail address I'm forced to have for MSN and then there's my Gmail account which is obligatory these days, then there's my Dot-Mac account... yes I'm crazy but not by birth, by design! (Oh and there's also one for my dog which I use just for fun!)
However, I use Apple Mail and they all come in seamlessly into one in-box or I am able to separate them into individual in-boxes with one click.
(Any wonder SpamSieve traps over 300 SPAM messages daily for me!)
pick one and use it for a gravatar, then use that email for sites that use gravatars... for someone whos supposedly so advanced to everyone else, you don't seem to grasp simple concepts easily.
(Now there's a new concept for me!)
however, my mind is making it seem more difficult than it should be. hmmmmmm
Gravatar allows for MULTIPLE email addresses and MULTIPLE icons. You can associate a different icon to each
email address, and an icon depending on your mood (so a PC for the summer months and a Mac where the sun
don't shine [sic])
That said, at the moment that site is PAINFULLY slow. So it seems that Matt 'scalable R us' Mullenweg has his
work cut out for him (aside: he should have taken that $200MM, 50% in cash offer, trust me).
Yea Adrian! Whooooot...
Since then I did some research of my own and realise I don't need the service.
I host my own avatars on my own server as many as I want with no restrictions!
I really don't see what the big deal is, I've obviously missed something simple?
Cute, works well, but the actual size of the gravatar is too big for say Vanilla, it's 80x80 px.
I uploaded a 32x32 gif and it was sized up to 80x80, not what I wanted.
Also my animated gif was de-animated!
It has possibilities, will investigate further.
Anyone willing to go ahead trying to implement gravatars into vanilla? Wordpress 2.5 has them built in (but also gives you the ability to change the service from gravatar to whatever).
This link might help - How to Setup Gravatars for your Blog - Plugin Free! , goes through setting up your wp template to fetch the commenter data and display his gravatar. Maybe something similar can be used but in extension form for vanilla.
Cheers!