{"id":1618,"date":"2008-04-22T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2008-04-23T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:15:00","slug":"wavatars-depreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Wavatars: Deprecated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/wavatars.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='wavatars.jpg' title='wavatars.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I read on the Gravatar blog that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gravatar.com\/2008\/04\/22\/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my\/\">several popular icon systems have been simply built in to the Gravatar system<\/a>. This means my <a href=\"?p=1462\">Wavatars plugin<\/a> is now superfluous. Instead of installing Wavatars on your blog, you can just use the built-in support for Gravatars and set the default code to &#8220;&amp;default=wavatar&#8221;.  This means that Gravatars.com will handle the storage and CPU load of all those icons. This also means that WordPress.com blogs will be able to use wavatars, as well as people who just don&#8217;t like mucking about with downloading and installing plugins.  Good deal all around.<\/p>\n<p>The existing Wavatars plugin will remain, but I have no plans to update it in the future.  I&#8217;m glad to see that the plugin was popular enough to merit inclusion in the Gravatar system.  Always nice to see an idea you nurtured grow to the point where it goes and lives on without you. (Not that I was the first to think of procedurally generated avatars, just this particular set of cute little faces.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read on the Gravatar blog that several popular icon systems have been simply built in to the Gravatar system. This means my Wavatars plugin is now superfluous. Instead of installing Wavatars on your blog, you can just use the built-in support for Gravatars and set the default code to &#8220;&amp;default=wavatar&#8221;. This means that Gravatars.com [&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":[69],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-wavatars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}