This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Grab Avatar
This widget gets avatars for you. The difference between this plugin and the standard avatar service that comes with WordPress is that this plugin checks Blogger.com and WordPress checks only Gravatar.com.
If you are getting a lot of default Gravatars in your comments and a lot of your visitors have blogger.com or blogspot.com blogs, then this should help.
Steps to install this widget:
- Download the plugin zip file.
- Upload the `grabavatar` directory to your Plugins directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`)
- Login to your WordPress blog
- Find the `Plugins` menu option at your dashboard
- Use it to activate the Grabavatar plugin, and that’s it. Everything works automatically.
Note: if your theme does not have avatars in comments, then you’ll need to enable or add that.
Also note: this plugin is slow, since it asks gravatar.com and blogger.com for pictures for each comment. I highly recommend a cache plugin to help with speed if you have a lot of comments.
Final note: this plugin uses a person’s blog URL to determine if there is a blogger.com profile picture. No website from comment author = no profile picture from blogger.com
March 30th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
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