Comment Avatars
- Filed under: Resource
Adding comment avatars to your blog is a great way to quickly recognize comment authors and distinguish same name commenters. It also bring a community vibe to your blog. Here’s an example:
Although there’s no one central avatar system, fortunately, there’s practically a plugin for every avatar system. Pick the system you prefer, download the matching plugin, and then install and integrate the plugin to start displaying avatars with comments.
Currently, Wpdesigner is using the MyAvatars plugin to integrate avatars from MyBlogLog. For the long time Gravatar users, there are several available plugins. For examples: WP Gravatar and Gravatar 2.
Of course, no one external avatar system will catch all commenters. No worries, there’s a localized avatar plugin that allows your users to upload their own avatar. You then decide which factor to recognize the commenters by (name, email, etc.), in order to assign the uploaded avatars.
I think MyAvatars (in combination with MyBlogLog) is the best solution thus far. In my experience, most folks who comment on sites have sites of their own, so it only makes sense to utilize the MyBlogLog system for comments, as well as recent visitors.
you need to login with your mybloglog account though in order for your avatar to show up.
Actually, you don’t have to. I haven’t logged into MBL for months and my avatar shows up every time I comment on a blog that has MyAvatars installed.
Sorry I can’t find the localized avatar plugin on the site you linked to.
^ Ask the plugin’s author for support.
how to install?
I want to install but how to install?
great theme thanks.
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