One neat little feature of WordPress 2.5 is built in support for Gravatars via the get_avatar function. Simply use it in your theme’s comment loop in the comment.php file, and boom, you’ll have avatars. Nusuni Dot Com already supported Gravatars thanks to the plugin - but today I switched it over to the new function.
One little warning I’d like to pass along is make sure you use echo! While implementing it I did this:
<?php get_avatar($comment,64); ?>There’s one big problem with that code - it doesn’t work! The solution to this problem was a simple programmer-error, I forgot echo! It took me almost thirty friggin minutes to figure that one out!
So yeah, make sure you use echo.
<?php echo get_avatar($comment,64); ?>If this isn’t proof I’m an idiot, I don’t know what is.
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April 6th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
It should be added to Murphy’s law. Simplest bugs always take the biggest amount of time to figure out
April 6th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Agreed. I suppose that is why many programmers work in teams - it makes it easier to find simple bugs. I’ve never been a big fan of team environments though. Unfortunately most code that is written by programmers looks worse than a doctor’s handwriting.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Dude, I did not know that doctor’s handwriting is a global problem. The way they produce hieroglyphs is just amazing…
April 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Haha. I feel bad for people who have to decipher that crap. My mom used to work at a few hospitals and medical centers - she couldn’t stand it when they wrote like a drunk monkey.