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After I showed off my new Wavatars Wordpress plugin on Saturday, a lot of people posted just to see what their wavatar looked like. I feel bad, but I’m afraid that initial system had to go and as a result, everyone’s Wavatar has been changed. This was for a good cause. I’ve moved away from PHP generated random numbers to random values derived directly from the hash of the email. To translate out of programmer babble: The plugin will now generate the same wavatar for you no matter where the plugin is running. Different websites running the same plugin will give you the same, predictable results.
I also added a bunch of new parts for greater variety, so the plugin can now generate 956,384 different shapes in 57,600 different color combinations for a total of 55,087,718,400 unique Wavatars. That should be enough combinations for now.
I’ll be releasing the plugin later this week. If you have a Wordpress blog then you’ll be able to have wavatars on your own site. I’ve ironed out the installation problems, so that you should be able to simply upload the thing and turn it on. (In theory.)
Also, I can’t take credit for the idea, which I first saw at implemented as MonsterID. (Hat Tip: MetaBLOG.)
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27 comments. Sweet.
Very nice.
If you feel like putting more work into your site after this, is there any chance we could get a preview function for comments?
DGM: I’d like to, but since it’s email and not IP based I don’t have the required value when the page is generated.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe there would be a way to do it with some fancy Javascript. I’m rubbish at Javascipt, though. You’d need a way for the user to fill out the comment email field and hit “preview” to see the resulting wavatar. Somehow you’d have to capture the value of the email field and send it to a little 60×60 IFRAME, which would be a PHP page designed to take the form input and show the resulting avatar.
I guess the only part I can’t figure out is how to grab the field contents and stick it into the query string.
Hmmmmm…
looks good so far…
“You’d need a way for the user to fill out the comment email field and hit “preview” to see the resulting wavatar.”
Sorry, I may have been unclear. I don’t want to preview the wavatar, I want to preview what I typed. For spellchecking, making sure my tags worked, etc.
Hah, my new Wavatar looks like its having some major issues. Note to self: turn Gravatar back on tomorrow, lest I get used to that face staring at me.
Now I’ve got to get a Gravatar so I don’t have to look at this this next time I post…
It all looks good, Shamus. Well done on the wavatars.
Aww, I liked my old one, I hope this one is as good!
DGM- ditto on the previews. It’s not quite so important now that there’s the bit of “permitted tags” right above the comment… but it would be kinda nice.
And I keep thinking, it’s sort of interesting… If you don’t feel like creating a gravatar, and want to “browse” for a nice wavatar, you can just keep using e-mail addresses with something different after a +. (many e-mail systems disregard that. I know gmail does.)
55,087,718,400 unique Wavatars,eh?So,at a rate of about 3 minutes per each e-mail for generating it and posting here,Id need about….314427 year.Ok,time to get bussy!
Lesse if this new one is as good as my old one…
Also, I noticed that on the dark theme, the quotes in some of your posts have the same background color. This is most apparent in the D&D Campaign posts.
It’s pretty easy to get the values off your form. Here’s something that should work on this page:
If you wanted to do a preview thing. The easiest would be to submit the form to a “preview page” with a “accept” or “deny” button on it. Have that page then submit all the fields to wp-comments-post.php on accept, and return to the blog page on deny. That wouldn’t require any javascript at all.
They’re cute, but I was kinda hoping they’d be dice…
Love the all the updates, Shamus!
I’m on yer webpage, testing my wavatar.
:D
testing!
testing!
I don’t know. Do you think the wavatars fit in well enough with the dice theme of the blog?
PBBBBT!!
=)
I like these. They’re kind of cute! I’m not sure they fit on m blog but they are geeky-cool.
testing
Sheer Curiosity Drove me to this. Damn you Shamus, damn you and your kooky website coding. ;)
A fine job tho, almost makes me wish i stuck w/ CS in college, almost.
I like the new text for the “anti-spam word” protection code…doodad…..thingy.
You know what I mean.
Just wanna see mine, without a big-ol’ search…
yrdyomh 2.3.4 (that’s testing 1,2,3.. for those wondering)
Just checking out my Wavatar too.
Never heard of a wavatar until now.
Is it luck of the draw about the security word?
Great.. _Now_ my Gravitar decides to start working.. lovely.
So.. my wavatar is..
also just testing today
Hoping for a better wavatar!
Let’s see, let’s see…
Davesnot: I would guess your Gravatar was probably not working because of capital letters in your e-mail. Shamus seems to have fixed it. Thanks, Shamus!
I just failed my saving throw against posting a pointless comment just to see my wavatar. Sorry?
To prove this post, I wanna say: Damn you Shamus, for getting me interested in D&D!
Well, I don’t post often, but now that it is ironed out, I’ve got to know what face I get to display here.
You know, for science.
I second that, this post is purely for science. It’s not about curiousity, it’s about putting order in the world, and for the betterment of mankind.
I can’t wait to see my very own personal wavatar
Ooo! I love it
Hmm. The default Wavatars remind me of a game called “Snood.”
This Weblog looks deep within my soul and assigns me a wavatar based on the email with which I joined. -Homer Simpson, sort of…
This will work fine until some jerk takes the wavatar of someone else and uses it as their gravatar, along with the person’s name, just to confuse people.
Testing… Please oh please nothing boring or dorky… An evil monocled one would be good LOL…
Gaaaaaaah!
(beats head on desk)
I think my campus e-mail one looks cool. Sunglasses and an “o-face” for the win2k!
Oh damnit I’m gonna have to stick with this one now, it’s too hilarious!
I guess if all the cool kids are doing it…
Test 1, test 1, 2
Testing my wavatar, like so many others.
Having fun, Shamus?
Shameless wavatar check.