Cool avatar with wp-gravatar

Posted at September 8, 2009

WP- gravatar is Another community building plug-in. It let’s you place the small pictures (avatars) of your readers next to their comments on your blog. Makes the comment area and the discussion much more personal and lively. In order for the avatars to appear, reader has to registdevelop byer it with Gravatars service

from wordpress.org Plugin page ;

This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments. But thats not all, scroll down to see what else this plugin does for your site. The plugin has been tested on version 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3 and 2.5. Should work on all versions from 2.1 and upwards. It will also detect the Prologue theme from Automattic.

This plugin does:

Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID with the comments section
Let’s you set your own CSS style to use with the Comments section and the author about box.
Gives you a Widget with your profile info and your gravatar
Use an Author Profile box in the sidebar if your theme does not support Widgets.
Gives you your Gravatar with every blog post (always top left of post in 20px*20px)
Gives you the option to show an about the author box with posts shown on single page
Makes Gravatars from users with no blog/url link back to your own site.
Lets you set a default gravatar to use on your site for users that don’t have a gravatar
Recent Comments Widget that shows Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID (in 20px*20px not changeable by user)
Makes use of favicon.ico of the users site, if the user don’t have a Gravatar.
Let’s you show the Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID avatars in the Edit Comment section of your admin pages.
Let’s you set the size of the Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID and MyBlogLog avatars