Yesterday Automattic, the company behind WordPress the software and WordPress.com the free blog platform, acquired Gravatar and decided to give away premium services for free. Frankly, I had not heard of Gravatar before reading about the acquisition, but the word ‘free’ got my attention and I went ahead and created an account at the site.
Basically Gravatar allows a person to create avatars based on emails, and I happily created some for the fun of it. After creating my avatars I realized one thing, that I can’t use them anywhere! No problem, I thought. That’s why I host my own blog, so I can experiment and integrate with services like Gravatar.
Today I installed Gravatar2 plugin for WordPress, tweaked my comment CSS and PHP files, and made live the spruced up comments layout. Go ahead, view the comments for this blog entry – I have (or will have) created a comment to demonstrate the new look.
Posted by Gadget Dude on October 19, 2007 at 12:39 am
Hi people, this is my test comment to demo the Gravatar integration.
Posted by Matt on October 20, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Looking good.
Posted by wei on October 20, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Simpson?
Posted by Gadget Dude on October 21, 2007 at 1:20 am
Yeah, Homer. I like that expression. That’s how I feel a lot of times.