This is a very serious question: I've seen lots of threads here about gravatars but I couldn't find and answer to this question: what computer identification/authentication (?) problem, if any, are gravatars supposed to solve? Neither the Wikipedia entry nor the official website are very useful. The official website mentions a "globall...
I'm already using gravatar icons for the users of my web service. However, I'm finding several problems with this approach: Only a small percentage of the users take the time to set up a gravatar profile. My users are not tech-savvy, but would be likely to add a dedicated photo to my site. Users of my service are encouraged to use imag...
I tried to get avatar at single (post) page by these codes <?php echo get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size = '96' ); ?> <?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 32 ); ?> <?php echo get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt ); ?> <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '60' ); ?> But no success, nothing get working...
Is there any way to force gravatar to always return identicon URL? The only way I found so far is: ?forcedefault=1&default=myCustomGeneratedImageUrlHere. However I don't want to generate identicon myself. Any ?forceIdenticon param? ...
I have implemented gravatar for a portal I am building and wanted to know if there is a default image URL for gravatar? Not all people who visit the site are logged in or have email addresses, in such a case, is there a default image that can be shown (accessible via gravatar url) ...
Does anyone know of a .Net port for the auto generated gravatar MonsterIDs icons? I'd like to generate monsters locally in my .Net app. ...
There is a simple way with php, a simple script or URL manipulation to build a URL for the gravatar image corresponding to an email? Ex. http://gravatar.com/avatars/[email protected] and this return a jpeg or png image. If there is no simple way like the example, what is the easiest way you know to resolve a url of ...
How can I disable Gravatar across an entire Drupal site without breaking the userphotos users have uploaded? I'm using the arrayshift profile, by the way. ...
I'm working with Ruby on rails 2.3.8 and my base app came with Gravatar functionality. I'd like to know if there's a way to programmatically upload a different gravatar in my application. ...
Hi all, I'm trying to incorporate some Gravatar functionality using its XML-RPC API in an iPhone app I'm writing. I grabbed the Cocoa XML-RPC Framework by Eric Czarny (http://github.com/eczarny/xmlrpc) and it works well when I tested it with some of the Wordpress methods. However, when I try to use the Gravatar API, I always receive a...
I am having a bit of trouble getting Gravatars to work properly: When I request the following: http://gravatar.com/avatar/8a17d0d0d8bdf6a8d527bbc943a17cf8.jpg?s=64&d=identicon Firefox proudly displays the following: ...indicating that the file is a PNG image. This confuses me - I thought Gravatars were JPEG images. It seems like ...
I'm trying to get a user's facebook profile picture based on their email address. Effectively, I want to offer my users the option between using Gravatar for their image, or Facebook. However, the only way I know of to get a user's facebook image is via: http://graph.facebook.com/[FBOOK USERNAME]/picture?type=large Since the usernames ...
Hi guys! I'm in the process of coding my very first blog. With the help of various tutorials, and other forums I have managed to gather a semi-working code. Right now I have a code that takes and displays the comment, but the problem is I wish to display Gravatars beside each comment. I was just wondering how exactly I would go about im...
I posted on this site earlier on questioning how to implement Gravatars into my php blog. I got an excellent answer but I've had one issue. The code displays the incorrect avatar. Any help is appreciated. Code: <?php function get_gravatar( $email, $s = 40, $d = 'identicon', $r = 'g', $img = false, $atts = array() ) { $...
Whilst the Gravatar service's API (well, it's really just a URL) is pretty straightforward, is there a simple helper method out there that does a good job of reflecting all the options available for Gravatar? Image size Default image (when user hasn't specified one) Rating (G/PG/R/X) Ideally this would be an HtmlHelper extension meth...
Hello all, can i use gravatar generated icons for commercial websites for free? is it no fees? i am building webforum, and dont want after couple months/years to get issue from court. thanks and take care, Ragims ...
Hi I know about gravatar.com, are there any other sites offering similar features? Thanks ...
I want to put some good avatar instead of the wordpress default. How can i do this without touching the core. ...
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Ruby on Rails. I had a quick question about installing gems. I'm using a windows 7 64 bit machine with Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 and I'm trying to install the gravatar_image_tag gem. gem install gravatar_image_tag After I run that it says its succcessful. But when I try to do this: gravatar_image_tag -v ...
I just read some warnings at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44717/is-gravatar-a-privacy-risk People claim it collects some "individual user’s personal information". My questions are what exactly personal info it collects and how it gets this personal info. Is it all about the referer header? ...