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An update on Wavatars:
Yes, I know recent changes to Gravtar functionality (actually, a complete re-write from Ruby to PHP) has broken my Wavatars plugin. I haven’t found time to fix it yet. This is doubly annoying because WordPress 2.5 is coming out very soon, and it will have built-in support for Gravatars. I have no idea how my plugin will work with a system like that. My worry is that it won’t, or that my plugin will become an ugly hack that runs independent of the integrated system. I might need to make small changes, or I may need to re-write the blasted thing. I dunno.
I don’t really have time to spend on it, and now I’m facing a situation where I might fix the plugin only to have the whole thing become obsolete in a week. Or perhaps require a re-write. I could install the upcoming WordPress 2.5 release candidate and find out, but that would take more time I don’t have.
Anyway, all of this whining is here to you know that:
- Yes, I’m aware of the problem.
- No, I can’t fix it right now.
Several people have fixed my plugin themselves. Someone actually sent me a .diff this morning, which resolved the problem and also cleaned things up a bit. If I manage to get time I’ll update the plugin, but I can’t make any promises.
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Eh, We’ve done without Wavatars before, I’m sure we can learn to do so again.
EDIT: Maybe you could collabertate with the gravatars people? Just a thought.
Could you simply post the diff file somewhere?
it’s acutaly very helpfull shamus, use the d= atribute to redirect it back to your site, and load the gravitar’s hash from there, using that to generate the image. I’ll code a basic demo in a few minute’s and let you see it.
just wrote this up quickly, in no way’s perfect, but still:
http://pastebin.com/m5e681bbb
gravatar_id=$md5.jpg&rating=$rating&size=$size&d=$urlYou’ll have to put an extra semicolon (;) after each & in the above quoted “correct” code.
Otherwise you’ll lose the semicolons as they’re part of the code for the ampersand.
Try this?
gravatar_id=$md5.jpg&;rating=$rating&;size=$size&;d=$url
Disclaimer: I know nothing about gravatars, wavatars, wordpress or blogging.
It looks like they built the new WP2.5 built-in avatars so they’d be pretty easy to modify. The
get_avatarfunction is inpluggable.php(all functions insideif (!function_exists( $functionName))) so a plugin can just define the function and automatically overwrite the default function. Also, they include a nice filter to catch the default gravatar output and overwrite or mess with it (apply_filters('get_avatar', $avatar, $id_or_email, $size, $default);). It looks like a plugin could hook into that filter and check if$avatarcontains$defaultand if so change to a plugin generated avatar (or just rewrite all avatar's to use plugin generated ones if the user doesn't like gravatars).My above comment is incorrect due to losing the important bits when posting. Please see my comment for the next post! :)
Don’t have time? Didn’t you mention in your previous post that you’re using up 5 hours* a week on a treadmill with nothing else to do at the same time? Figure out a way to update and stumble simultaneously, you whiney bum! =p
*Yes, 6 hours but one is spent thoughtfully reviewing FtB podcasts.