A blog is a nice place to exchange ideas, meet people who have the same interests as you and build a community. MyBlogLog is a great tool to help you build this community around your blog. If you scroll down this page, you’ll see a MyBlogLog widget that displays the latest visitors’ avatars.
When people comment on my blog, I like to see who they are. It gives a more personnal vibe to the post. This can be possible using the Wordpress plugin developed at Napolux.com. Installing the plugin is pretty straightforward:
- unzip it’s content
- upload the MyAvatars folder to your plugin directory
- enable the plugin
When you’re done, add the following code to comments.php in the comment loop:
<?php if(function_exists(”MyAvatars”)) MyAvatars(); ?>
For my part, I’ve added it right before:
<?php comment_text() ?>
As reported by Zac Johnson, the MyAvatars plugin may generate a stack overflow error in Internet Explorer 7. You can solve this problem by removing the Javascript code in the avatar’s image tag.
If you don’t want to bother with this, you can download the fixed plugin here: myavatars.zip
November 26th, 2007 at 12:04 am
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November 26th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Does it get the avatar by matching your mybloglog email or does it use IP?
November 26th, 2007 at 9:59 am
It uses the email address entered in the comment form.
