Wordpress Gravatar Support - Best Blogs Asia
How to add Wordpress Gravatar Support to your blog, making post comments more recognisable.
Wordpress is probably the best CMS package hands down and in order to attract more user comments, it great to implement something like a Gravatar which can give an identity to the poster.
What is a Gravatar
The meaning is Globally Recognized Avatar and is an image that you define and appears on your comments or a post on a blog. They help to identify your identity on the internet.
You can sign up and get a Gravatar for free.
Wordpress Gravatar Code
By default, Wordpress doesn’t include Gravatar support so it needs to be added. Also to note this code only supports WordPress 2.5 and above.
Locate your local themes/NAME/comments.php file and place the highlighted code into your location, anywhere within the foreach and endforeach (the comments loop) will work. I also set my own default avatar in case a poster doesn’t have their own, this is useful to continue with the balance/control of my site:
