Gravatars
I’m currently fiddling with Gravatars. So you will see either a picture of a face or a picture of the favicon of this site (the little box) while I figure out how to do it right. To clarify, you will only ever see the favicon if you don’t have your own Gravatar or if it breaks somehow. My Gravatar comes from the BBC series Life on Mars (the Camberwick Green episode) because it looks a bit like me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw1YSvKTBTI - the first 5 minutes of the show.
On the comments page it works, so you should see what is supposed to be there. If I get fed up and stuck, I’ll disable them on the main page - I’m not totally convinced they’re needed on the front page because I’m the only author. …………..Decided to go without them on the front page, so you will only see them on the comments page.
MrCorey
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I had always liked Gravatars - enough to start a Wikipedia entry on them. But, with the slowness of the old site, I couldn’t justify adding the code just to slow my site down. I might re-enable them soon. I’ll follow your progress.
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Sunday, 11 November 2007, 19:22 CSTRay
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They seem quicker on the comments page than on the main page, which is another reason I haven’t bothered on the main page.
They aren’t mega-important, they’re just a nice piece of eye-candy.
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Sunday, 11 November 2007, 20:40 CSThari
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How do you get gravatars, by the way?
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 12:41 CSTRay
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Go to Gravatar.com and sign up, then you need a plugin…..
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 13:16 CSTMrCorey
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You’ll have to provide the image, of course (which can make it really fun!)
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 17:35 CSTJ_K9
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I had them on my site too but I got rid of them after a Wordpress upgrade.
Hmm… I can’t even remember what I set as my Gravatar! Oh well, time to find out. 8)
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 20:22 CSTRay
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You appear not to have one….
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 20:54 CSTRay
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And now there’s a fresh new image for anyone without their own gravatar :lol:
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Monday, 12 November 2007, 21:26 CSTtitanium_geek
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I feel I remember I had one… we’ll see, eh?
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 00:43 CSTtitanium_geek
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well, I should have one!
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 00:55 CSTRay
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I see gravatars :)
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 08:52 CSTtitanium_geek
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I see it now… :)
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 12:13 CST