New Plugin: EEGravatar

Sean, this plugin is 2.0 compatible and also supports the {name} variables when used in member listings.

Code72, so you can’t output just the {email} variable (without the plugin code)?

yea, I grabbed it from github. The plugin seems to work fine, it’s just that the ‘email’ variable within the exp:comments loop refers to the entry author’s email address not the comment author’s email address. Is this just an EE2.0 problem or am I missing something?

Phillip, As I said above, I can output the {email} variable but it’s the entry author’s email address even within the comments loop, not the comment author’s email address. Are you not seeing that problem in EE2.0?

It’s working fine for me. Are you wrapping the {exp:comments} tag inside of the {exp:channel} tag?

The following (outside of all other tags) should work, can you test it out?:

{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="20"}
{comment}
{exp:gravatar email= 
By {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"}
{/exp:comment:entries}

again, the email=”{email}” got messed in the forum post, make sure it’s correct in the code 😊

Huh, so I got it working, but only outside of the {exp:channel} tags. I thought {exp:comments} was supposed to go inside of the {exp:channel} loop, but after more careful inspection of the docs, it does actually say:

Please note that the comment entries tag should not typically be nested inside of a standard {exp:channel:entries} tag.

My bad. Thanks for your help Phillip.

Great! glad it’s working for you now! The EE 2.0 docs still need some work, for example the {email} variable isn’t actually listed as on option as a variable to use (I’ll submit that as a bug).

At any rate glad you got it working!

Just pushed an update to the plugin live on github. For EE 1.6.x and 2.0.

http://github.com/philipzaengle/gravatar.ee_addon

Great to see this plugin under your active stewardship, Philip.

I’d love it if the alt attribute were sensitive to the presence or absence of a gravatar so one doesn’t get a situation where the user-defined default (placeholder) image is shown but the alt attribute still says:

alt="Picture of {author}"

When the default image is shown the alt attribute ought to be empty instead:

alt=""

Other than that, keep up the good work.

Good suggestion. But I’m not sure if there’s a way to do that. The plugin simply turns the e-mail address into an md5 hash and attaches it to a URL. Gravatar handles the rest. So there’s really no way to test to see if gravatar has a avatar for a user or not… I’ll look into it and see if I’m wrong though.

I noticed that size=”” doesn’t seem to be working? When I used the one you posted to github, the plugin started working again, but the size no longer works – it just shows the default, regardless of what size=”” I set.

Is there a newer version somewhere? Thanks!

Hi Joelle, can you post the code your using as well as the url to the image the plugin is outputting?

also, is this for EE 2.0 or EE 1.6?

EE 1.6.9 20100430 and I’m using the correct plugin, as well. I had my own code snippet that I’ve used a lot, but when it wasn’t working, I decided to go right to the horses’ mouth, as it were and grabbed it from your site. 😊 But, I might have tinkered with something. Entirely possible!

{exp:gravatar email=

Right now, I’m forcing the size using CSS, but if I don’t have a h/w applied to .avatar, it defaults to the bigger 70px size.

What am I doing wrong here? lol I’ve used this plugin forever, so I’m flummoxed. Thank you!