{"id":1461,"date":"2007-12-16T19:25:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2007-12-16T19:28:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:28:21","slug":"wavatars-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Wavatars Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I showed off my new Wavatars WordPress plugin on <a href=\"?p=1460\">Saturday<\/a>, a lot of people posted just to see what their wavatar looked like.  I feel bad, but I&#8217;m afraid that initial system had to go and as a result, everyone&#8217;s Wavatar has been changed.  This was for a good cause.  I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be releasing the plugin later this week.  If you have a WordPress blog then you&#8217;ll be able to have wavatars on your own site.  I&#8217;ve ironed out the installation problems, so that you should be able to simply upload the thing and turn it on.  (In theory.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, I can&#8217;t take credit for the idea, which I first saw at implemented as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitbrain.org\/blog\/2007-01\/20_monsterid_as_gravatar_fallback\">MonsterID<\/a>.  (Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metablog.us\/users\/wp_monsterid-automatic-unique-avatars\/\">MetaBLOG<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m afraid that initial system had to go and as a result, everyone&#8217;s Wavatar has been changed. This was for a good cause. I&#8217;ve moved away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}