Gravatars not working…WordPress 2.7

Resolved autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

I’ve searched other topics for information about the problem I’m having but I couldn’t find anything that answered my specific question. I’m currently using 2.7 (and loving it) and I recently downloaded and installed the popular Iceburgg theme by Devlounge. I feel I should note that before returning to a domain of my own, I was using a blog at wordpress.com that offers the same theme to users. However, I’ve noticed that there are a few significant differences between the theme on wordpress.com and the theme at the developer’s website. I’ve managed to make the theme widget-ready with no real problem. But for some reason, even though I’ve set up my blog (through the dashboard) to show gravatars, they aren’t showing up in my Recent Comments widget or on the actual comments page itself. They just aren’t showing up at all. However, when I was using the theme on wordpress.com they were there.

So does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Is it necessary for me to add the code to the theme myself or is there some kind of error or mistake or something that’s causing the gravatars to be non-existent?

Also, does anyone know if an updated version of the theme (like the one on wordpress.com) exists? Or did wp.com just tweak the theme themselves?

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Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

15 years, 4 months ago

If the theme does not have get_avatar() or other PHP code to display avatars, then you won’t get a gravatar.

That dashboard setting turns it on and off only if the theme supports gravatars in the comments.php file.

Check out the Easy Gravatars plugin for a simple way to add gravatars to a theme. It says it supports up to 2.5 but I am using it on a 2.7 blog that I have not coded the get_avatar() into yet.

mikey1
(@mikey1)

15 years, 4 months ago

hi there, don’t forget, a gravatar is associated to a particular email address, I notice you don’t have a gravatar showing in this post so maybe you haven’t added one to the email address you signed up with here.
Is your wordpress.com blog showing a gravatar for a different email.
hope you get there.
mike.

Thread Starter autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

@ jdembowski – I suspected that. Thank you for the reply – I’ll try a plugin and see how that works out for me.

@ mikey1 – My problem is theme-related, the email address is the same.

I’ll try the plugin and if that works, then I’ll mark this post resolved. Thanks to both of you for the replies!
Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

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15 years, 4 months ago
Forgot to mention: if you are familiar with SVN then you can get the WordPress.COM version of the Iceburgg theme using these commands:
```
cd wp-content/themes
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/iceburgg/ iceburgg
```
That will get you a copy of the one from WordPress.com.
Thread Starter autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

@ jdembowski – I have no idea what SVN is….

I installed the Easy Gravatars plugin…however it doesn’t work so well with my recent comments widget. It also doesn’t appear to assign a generic gravatar to people who haven’t registered one. I know there are other plugins that may be more customizable but they require modification of files. Any suggestions?

Edit: removed personal links

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

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15 years, 4 months ago

SVN is a revision control system called Subversion. The URL is WordPress.COM’s public repository for the GPL’ed themes that they use.

It’s a very useful tool and I keep my WordPress installs up to date using it.

Try this: on my blog I’ve downloaded using SVN a copy of that theme and zipped it up at http://wp.dembowski.net/wp-content/iceburgg-wpcom.zip

It verbatim from WordPress.com, feel free to download it, A/V scan it, etc. see if the WordPress.com version solves your problem with gravatars.

Edit: oh yeah, and if you do give this a try disable the Easy Gravatar plugin. I won’t be needed with the WordPress.com version.

Thread Starter autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

Well, how nice of you to do that. I’ll back up my current version and upload the one you downloaded…maybe that’ll solve all my problems. I’ll report back to let you know how it goes. Thanks so much!

Thread Starter autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

@ jdembowski – Well…after installing the theme you downloaded, gravatars are now showing up on the comments page, but not with my Recent Comments widgets. Any idea why that might be? Is it coding?
Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

15 years, 4 months ago
On my 2.7 blog I use the Get Recent Comments plugin.

In the template field on the Get Recent Comments option page, I use this:
```
<li>%gravatar <a href="%comment_link" title="%post_title, %post_date">%comment_author</a>: %comment_excerpt</li>
```
Now there is a bug with that plugin; when you update the widgets, you will need to go to the Get Recent Comments options page and save it again. If you don’t then the widget looks slightly messed up.
Thread Starter autumneffect
(@autumneffect)

15 years, 4 months ago

@ jdembowski – I installed that plugin/widget and it seems to have achieved exactly what I wanted. Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it!

betzy
(@betzy)

15 years, 4 months ago

hello guys, i want to remove the gravatars from recent comments widget, how do i do that ?

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

15 years, 4 months ago

If you mean the Get Recent Comments plugin, the in the options page just delete the word %gravatar in your template portion.

betzy
(@betzy)

15 years, 4 months ago

nope i didn`t mean get recent comments plugin, i meant the default widget recent comment, on the new wordpress in sidebar it shows the gravatars beside the user 🙁

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

15 years, 4 months ago

You must have something in your css that’s formatting it that way. I don’t have that at all and I use the default WP widget for that in 2.7

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

15 years, 4 months ago

Huh, that’s totally bizarre for me.

I don’t get gravatars in my sidebar using the recent comments widget, even on the default theme. Oh well, Get Recent Comments works for me…