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+1  Q: 

Which API is being used in this website to sign in, and display a profile image?

I'm a bit puzzled. CSS tricks has an area for comments, but I noticed that the people who comment, have their own link and profile image. I understand that the author of that site is using Wordpress.

Is this being accomplished with Wordpress or another API?

+1  A: 

Gravatar.com (same as here), it uses the e-mail address.

DaveShaw  2010-07-06 13:10:12
+2  A: 

WordPress supports Gravatar, which is essentially a globally recognised avatar. It uses your email address to match up to a Gravatar profile. As you, and only you should have that email address, it should match up to a singular Gravatar profile, if you have one.

Matthew Abbott  2010-07-06 13:10:38
@Matthew Abbott but are user signing-in in that website? Where?
janoChen  2010-07-06 13:12:49
I wouldn imagine when you first enter your details to create a comment, you register an account...
Matthew Abbott  2010-07-06 13:22:52
@jano: No, the users do not need to sign in. When they enter their email address, the site (css-tricks) fetches the gravatar image from gravatar using the (md5 hashed) email address as identifier. See this link for details on how it works: http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/hash/
Tomas Lycken  2010-07-06 13:26:21

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