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askTWIT

April 24, 2008

I am running a little experiment on Twitter. I have created a new account called askTWIT. The purpose is to facilitate getting answers to questions by tapping into the Twitter hive-mind, by acting as a central point of reference where questioners and answerers can find each other. It works like this: If you have a [...]

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wavatars updated

March 26, 2008

Shamus announces an update to his wavatars plugin. However, as noted earlier, the pending release of WordPress 2.5 will likely break most avatar plugins due to its built-in avatar support. It think it makes more sense to wait for the post-upgrade version of wavatars for the time being; I still would like to see a [...]

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WP 2.5 has built-in gravatar support

March 4, 2008

Seems that WordPress v2.5 (which will be out this month) will include support for Gravatars by default: Theme Authors: Adding Gravatars to Your Theme The function to add Gravatars to your theme is called: get_avatar. The function returns a complete tag of the Avatar. The function get_avatar is setup as follows: function get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size [...]

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Lorelle pushes Gravatars

December 31, 2007

WordPress maven Lorelle has a post about creating gravatars and adding them to your blog. I left a comment in advocacy of Shamus’ and Scott’s alternatives. One thing I didn’t mention was that using a locally-generated solution like Wavatars or MonsterID also lends a kind of consistency to the avatars that show up, which in [...]

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Wavatars

December 18, 2007

Shamus Young has released a new avatar plugin, called “Wavatars” (the W stands for “Whatever”). This plugin closely mirrors ScottSM’s WP_MonsterID plugin, with added optional support for Gravatars built-in (the plugin can be set to default to a Wavatar if no Gravatar is present). Whether you intend to use wavatars, monsterIDs, or the purely abstract [...]

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WP_MonsterID: automatic, unique avatars

December 10, 2007

Recently, the Gravatar service was bought out by the founders of WordPress. The immediate result was to move Gravatar over to their servers which resulted in a significant speed boost, and also accelerate gravatar support into the WordPress core. The major advantage of this is that it fosters a sense of community among your commenters, [...]

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