Comments on: Gravatar Checkup: Have You Created Your Gravatar?

By: Minna (minja)

Minna (minja) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:12:15 +0000

I’m a bit late to this party. My blog has plenty of gravatars and I like ‘em! My question is how to host them so that the browser doesn’t first hit gravatar.com and then redirect to my blog to supply the default avatar. About the only errors I have on Google Page Speed relate to these gravatars: “Resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs.” How could it be otherwise? The browser first has to check if the user has a gravatar and then supply my default one if needed. Do you have a solution?

By: peki

peki — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:33:37 +0000

Great, now I have gravatar.

PQ – Batam

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:05:59 +0000

@ John – Thanks for pointing out that plugin!

@ Ibdreamy – If you are comfortable inserting code, you can use the code in this post to add Gravatars to your comments.php file.

Good luck!

By: John Hoff - eVentureBiz

John Hoff - eVentureBiz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:39:13 +0000

@Ibdreamy – I had the same problem. For some reason, my template rejected gravatars. But then I found one which a guy customized a little so I gave it a try and voala! I have gravatars now. Here’s the link:

Filosofo’s Gravatar Plugin.

Good luck.

By: Ibdreamy

Ibdreamy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:56:13 +0000

I love Gravatar but for some reason I’ve had some trouble implementing it into some of my themes even with the plugin.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong eh I’ll figure it out no worries..basically Thanx for the post more people need to be add one. I hope mine works or I’m gonna look like an ass. LOL!

By: emrinho

emrinho — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:51:01 +0000

I never used a Gravatar but I will google it more and start to use it. Thanks for the useful information.

By: John Lacey

John Lacey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:51:04 +0000

I wish everybody used Gravatar. Its so good for putting faces to names.

By: WordPress Weekend Resources - June 6, 2008 | Theme Lab

WordPress Weekend Resources - June 6, 2008 | Theme Lab — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:50:21 +0000

[...] Have You Created Your Gravatar? – This really isn’t anything new, but still important. Ever since I implemented Gravatars here on Theme Lab, I’m seeing many commentators here lacking their Gravatar. It’s really simple to make, as gone over in the post. For WordPress blog owners, it’s very easy to add Gravatar support to your comments. [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:53:32 +0000

I didn’t realise I could connect gravatars to other email addresses. Good tip.

By: Lawrence Salberg

Lawrence Salberg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:16:44 +0000

Thanks for fighting the good fight about this. It’s the one thing that makes comments readable as a thread – without resorting to actual forum-like threading. I rarely read comments on blogs without Gravatars (or something similar) since it’s confusing to follow who is saying what.

I also too recently wrote an evangelical clarion call to get everyone on board to use Gravatars. I called it A Dozen Dirty Reasons to Get a Gravatar and tried to make it a bit humorous. I have no idea, looking back, why I thought the reasons were dirty… just a play on words and the movie, but if anyone is still giving you flack about getting a Gravatar, maybe there will be a reason in there you can steal and use to help get them on board.

Thanks for the info on WP 2.5 already having this functionality built in. I had no idea. I’ll give it a try and maybe ditch the plugin.

Keep on keepin’ on, bro.