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Wordpress, How to insert the Gravatar icon into the comment section

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GravatarWhen I was blog-walking to several blogs, I saw not all of them but most of them use Gravatar icons to represent the commentator’s email addresses - its cute. Gravatar or Globally Recognized Avatars is basically a 80 x 80 pixel image used to represent your email address. If you do not have any gravatar yet you can got to gravatar website then signup yourself to get it - it’s simple.

OK, now lets find out how you can retrieve the gravatar of each commentator’s email address on your blog. First open your comments.php file - commonly it is placed on your current theme folder - with your text editor.

Find this line of code within the file:

<?php comment_text() ?>

When you already found it, next to do is to replace that line with the following block of code but I think it’s a good idea to backup the original content of your comments.php file since not every theme has as simple code as my current theme.

<?php
if (get_comment_type() == ‘comment’) {
echo "<img src=’http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5($comment->comment_author_email)."’ style=’padding-top: 15px’ />";
}
else {
echo "<img src=’http://averagecoder.net/wp-content/uploads/trackback.jpg’ style=’padding-top: 10px’ />";
}
comment_text();
?>

On the above code you can see the get_comment_type() function. It’s a WordPress hook function to get the comment types which only has 3 return values, and they are:

  1. comment
  2. trackback
  3. pingback

I only need to get the Gravatar for normal comment and mark the other comment types (usually a trackback) with the other image so that is why you see the IF statement there to get the intended result.

Cool, basically it’s done and I hope the implementation on your code will be as easy as copy-pasting it. Thanks to ridhocyber for helping me with this one.

Enjoy…

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2 Responses to “Wordpress, How to insert the Gravatar icon into the comment section”

  1. Daniel Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    This is a test to check the Gravatar Icon…

    Cheers :)
  2. Mahesh Says:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Thanx for the gr8 info.. Trying it on my blog now!

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