Enemy of Entropy

Gravatars and Plugins and WordPress, Oh My!

5 April 2008, 11:03 pm. 8 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Geekery.

Since Word­Press 2.5 has Gra­vatar sup­port, I’m attempt­ing to add Gra­vatars to my blog tem­plate. Unfor­tu­nately, I just keep get­ting errors, or a the default “no Gra­vatars” image (even for com­ment authors who I know have Gra­vatars, like me). I’m cer­tain that the author of this tem­plate isn’t going to update it to include sup­port, because her web site and busi­ness are up for sale. She hasn’t ever responded to ques­tions in the past, either, so I fig­ure it’s silly to look for help there.

I tried on another tem­plate, with the same errors. I really don’t want to switch themes again, because I couldn’t even start to remem­ber every­thing I’ve cus­tomized in this one, and I’d rather not do it all over again. I’m annoyed, though. If any­one can help me, I’d appre­ci­ate it!

Update: Squee! They’re work­ing now! The clue I needed was in a post at Weblog Tools Col­lec­tion. Now I can try updat­ing the other blogs!

Oth­er­wise, Now Read­ing is work­ing now, thanks to help from the author. I’m thrilled, as it’s one of my favorite plug-​​ins. When I get Read­er­Ware set up for us again, I’ll try to fig­ure out a way to export data from it to NR.

Cys­tats is not work­ing, though. I didn’t even real­ize that it was bro­ken at first, because the error only shows up for users who aren’t logged in. Oddly enough, it works on some blogs that are run­ning 2.5, but not this one. The author of that plug-​​in hasn’t responded to my ques­tions, though. It might be due to a lan­guage bar­rier, as his blog is writ­ten in Ger­man. Now it’s work­ing again, as ran­domly as it quit work­ing. Why? Who knows? If you see an error on the site at any time, please com­ment and let me know!

I just real­ized that Live­jour­nal Cross­post also died in the upgrade. For­tu­nately, there’s a fix described in the issues board at the devel­op­ment site that should make it work again.

Now I get to go back and see how many posts didn’t go to LJ, and try to fix that lit­tle omission.

8 Comments »

  1. avatar HopeEvey. 6 April 2008, 10:38 am

    When I orig­i­nally looked at this post, I wasn’t logged in, and there was this error mes­sage where the usual com­ment box was:

    Fatal error: Call to unde­fined func­tion gra­vatar() in /homepages/20/d162322745/htdocs/technomom/wp-content/themes/experimental-silver-10/comments.php on line 75

    Now I’m logged in, and no error messages.

    I’m glad the blog’s behav­ing again :)

  2. avatar cyn. 6 April 2008, 6:11 pm

    SQUEE! I got a cas­cade of Hope comments!

    That was prob­a­bly while I was work­ing on the imple­men­ta­tion. The post date and time are from when I started writ­ing the post. I stayed up WAY too late futz­ing with it.

    Now I just need to get you to go set up a Gra­vatar :-)

  3. avatar HopeEvey. 7 April 2008, 10:07 pm

    **is tick­led to have caused a Cyn Squee**

  4. avatar My single favorite new feature in WordPress 2.5 [Techno File] | Words & Tricks. 10 April 2008, 1:08 am

    […] Gra­vatars and Plu­g­ins and Word­Press, Oh My! […]

  5. avatar Mehmet Onatli. 30 May 2008, 12:16 pm

    I need my own gra­vatar. I won­der what would be a good one for me

  6. avatar Joe. 3 July 2008, 8:05 am

    can we make our own gra­vatar and upload it to word​press​.com ??

  7. avatar cyn. 3 July 2008, 7:18 pm

    You make your own and upload it to http://​gra​vatar​.com/ , and it should show up here or on any other Word­Press site with a Gravatar-​​enabled template.

  8. avatar Sam Vander. 4 August 2008, 11:40 pm

    I was look­ing for my own gra­vatar and look­ing to find some use­ful infor­ma­tion. Thanks to your blog, I found the answer here.

 

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