Title: Comment avatar stretched help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Comment avatar stretched help

 *  Resolved [TOD1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tod1/)
 * (@tod1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/)
 * Changed the comment avatar to 50 x 50. The box changed okay. The avatar picture
   width changed but the height appears to have stayed at 64 and is now cut off.
 * Please help, I’m going insane thing to fix it. First time using WP and CSS.
 * [http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/](http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/)
   
   [http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/2008/02/25/the-fly/#comments](http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/2008/02/25/the-fly/#comments)

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 *  [Big Bagel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-bagel/)
 * (@big-bagel)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325550)
 * You should change the dimensions in the function that shows your comments rather
   than with CSS so that your gravatars are downloaded with the proper dimensions
   already. It depends on the theme, but it’s probably generating your comment lists
   with [wp_list_comments()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments)
   in a file named `comments.php`. If so, you should add the ‘avatar_size’ to any
   arguments. For example:
 * `wp_list_comments( array( 'avatar_size' => 50 ) );`
 * If your theme doesn’t use `wp_list_comments()` then it probably uses [get_avatar()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_avatar)
   to show the gravatars instead, in which case you would use:
 * `get_avatar( $comment, 50 );`
 *  Thread Starter [TOD1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tod1/)
 * (@tod1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325651)
 * Not using Gravatars, it’s just the default avatar.
 * Changed everything I could find in the comments.php relating to avatar size to
   50 but nothing happened, avatar was still stretched and cut off.
 *  [Big Bagel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-bagel/)
 * (@big-bagel)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325658)
 * You are actually using gravatar. You can look at your site’s source to see that
   it’s polling gravatar for the images, not finding one for your email address,
   and serving your selected default which is a file located here:
 * [http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/wp-content/themes/comicpress/images/avatars/default/rascal.png](http://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/todcomic/wp-content/themes/comicpress/images/avatars/default/rascal.png)
 * I also, see you’re using comicpress. I’m familiar with the theme and know that
   it’s comments.php file is annoyingly over-complicated. Assuming you’re using 
   the latest version (or your versions has the same comments.php as the latest 
   versiosn) you should see this on line 28:
 * `'avatar_size'=>64`
 * Change it to:
 * `'avatar_size'=>50`
 * Then on line 32 you’ll see:
 * `wp_list_comments(array('type' => 'comment', 'avatar_size'=>64));`
 * Change it to:
 * `wp_list_comments(array('type' => 'comment', 'avatar_size'=>50));`
 * That will tell gravatar to serve a 50px x 50px image for all non-trackback/pingback
   comments. The function automatically adds inline `height` and `width` attributes
   which is why, when you set `height` and `width` CSS rules for it’s surrounding
   div with the class `comment-avatar`, it didn’t properly contain the image.
 * I suppose, if you want a less elegant solution, you could also change the height
   and width of the image by doing this in your style.css file to override the inline`
   height` and `width` attributes:
 *     ```
       .comment-avatar a img.avatar {
           height: 50px !important;
           width: 50px !important;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [TOD1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tod1/)
 * (@tod1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325659)
 * You are my hero! Thanks!
 * Tried the comments.php changes first but it had no effect. Made the style.css
   changes next and it worked. It’s changed in both files now, I hope that’s okay?
 * Only two more problems left to fix. So far. :p
 *  [Big Bagel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-bagel/)
 * (@big-bagel)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325660)
 * It’s really just that bit of CSS scaling it down; the function is still serving
   a 64px X 64px image which is odd since you changed it in comments.php. However,
   as long as it looks the way you want, it’s really not that big of a deal.

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 * [stretched](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stretched/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-avatar-stretched-help/#post-2325660)
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