16 Comments

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   Jon

   Posted July 19, 2010 at 10:49 AM

   super! thank you…

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   abcmoteur

   Posted August 3, 2010 at 12:53 PM

   Many thanks for this tip!

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   Tronius

   Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM

   Hi, I’m trying to use only gravatar icons on my website.

   Well I put Wp-Gravatar plugin, and want to show Bigger gravatar on comments. Then I just deactivate wp-avatar, and configured gravatars only. The problem is that if I deactivate this, we can’t see gravatars on the Tabbed Sidebar.

   How can I fix this? :S I don’t know the code.

   here is an example

   http://www.escuadronpikmin.com/2010/10/11/call-of-duty-black-ops-de-wii-tendra-su-propio-headset-exclusivo/

   I configured a default avatar for my own.

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     Mitko

     Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM

     Tronius,

     Let me see if I understand your problem correctly: you are using the WP-Gravatar plugin instead of the built-in avatar capability, correct?

     If that is the case, I think I know why you are not seeing avatars/gravatars in the Tabbed Sidebar:
     The Tabbed Sidebar uses the WP function “get_avatar()”. As described in the WP documentation this function is pluggable (meaning, plugins can replace it) and there is also are get_avatar filter which the plugins can use. However, it doesn’t appear that WP-Gravatar is doing either one of those. Therefore, since you’ve disabled WP’s built-in avatar capability, the get_avatar() function does not return anything.

     I think, that is why avatars are missing from the Tabbed Sidebar. Hope this helps.

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       Tronius

       Posted October 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM

       Yes, it’s because of this, but I don’t know how to change this. I’m trying a lot, but I don’t know, I’m noob on this.

       Thanks for the reply

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         Mitko

         Posted October 12, 2010 at 2:23 PM

         Tronius,

         Unfortunately, this appears to be a WP-Gravatar plugin problem. They should be handling the “get_avatar” filter better.

         I am not very familiar with the WP-Gravatar plugin at all but here is what I would suggest:
         Replace the line show in the original post here with the following:

         if (function_exists("prologue_show_gravatar_post")) {
             echo prologue_show_gravatar_post($comment->user_id);
         } else {
             echo get_avatar($comment, 36);
         }
         

         Hope this helps a bit.

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           Tronius

           Posted October 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM

           Not the perfect soslution, but no problem for now.

           I’m just trying to put bigger avatar on commets posts, and a smaller ones on the tabbed sidebar.

           If you know the solution…

           Thank you for the reply

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   Kath

   Posted October 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM

   Sensational! I’ve been wondering about this for a while now, and this fix is just perfect! Thanks for going to the effort of figuring it out, and then sharing it with us all. Whoo hoo!!

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   Dvotee

   Posted August 4, 2011 at 11:38 AM

   Hi

   I tried this just now and get message errors and the site is offline. Was this for a previous version and if so if there now a newer fix for this.

   I did exactly what you said above but it didn’t work.

   My avatar shows up in the sidebar but that of people who comment, whilst it shows in the post, does not show up in the tabbed sidebar.

   My site is new and working on it so I’m hoing your site may be able to give me more idea/solutions

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     Mitko Haralanov

     Posted August 4, 2011 at 11:54 AM

     I am actually getting the same thing. Since the gravatars are loaded from gravatar.com. I tend to think that it might be a problem with their site as this worked perfectly just this morning.

     I am actually getting “Gateway Timeout” errors which points to some network issue.

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       Dvotee

       Posted August 5, 2011 at 1:24 AM

       Hi Mitko

       I only utilised the tabbed sidebar yesterday so I have no idea as to whether or not it was working.

       Are you saying that in ‘theory’ the should automatically appear through gravater.com and I don’t have to do anything (if you theory is correct?)

       Cheers
       Paul

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   Dvotee

   Posted August 5, 2011 at 1:31 AM

   Actually I’m wondering if it could be some setting somewhere as well. Any ideas as to where I can find them and what they should be? I have found some under settings>discussion and I have shown avatar so not sure.

   Yours are now showing up in the sidebar but mine are not and are still showing the defaulted one?

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     Mitko Haralanov

     Posted August 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM

     Dvotee,

     You have to enable Gravatar avatars in your wordpress blog in the Settings -> Discussions section (under Avatars) but I assumed that you had already done that.

     Once enabled, gravatars for users registered with Gravatar.com should start appearing automatacally, as long as the email address with which the comment was posted matches the email address used on the Gravatar.com website.

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   Dvotee

   Posted August 24, 2011 at 1:53 AM

   Yes I did have them enabled in settings>Discussions but still not working.

   Guess it’s either a mismatch on email or something else but their gravatar shows in the actual reply just not in the tabbed sidebar.

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     Mitko Haralanov

     Posted August 29, 2011 at 10:24 AM

     Yes, I see the problem. Can you email me your arras-theme/library/widgets.php file? fulcrumusa at netscape dot net

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   Dvotee

   Posted August 31, 2011 at 6:29 AM

   OK Sure I’ll do that when Im back home and at my usual computer. Thanks