Posted 3 months ago #
Site Name: Site Sketch 101
Site Url: http://www.sitesketch101.com
WP Version: 2.8.4
I currently use gravatars in my comments section which really adds life to the comments. I would like to have a specific image displays as the avatar for trackbacks/pingbacks so that they more closely resemble the rest of the comments. I've messed around in comments.php and theme-comments.php but I can't quite figure out what I need to modify to get this done.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The get_avatar function returns false for trackbacks and pingbacks. You can use this to detect them and to output a special image.
How you do this depends on your code in particular, but you do need to be using a callback or some similar method to control the html of your comments.
Look for the call to get_avatar in your theme. It probably looks like this, or similar:
echo get_avatar($comment, 96);
Change that to something like this:
$avatar=get_avatar($comment, 96);
if (!$avatar) {
echo '<img src="your_custom_avatar_whatever.png" />';
} else {
echo $avatar;
}That sort of thing.
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