I’ve already implemented on my site. But my I make an suggestion?

You see… Both Wavatar and MonsterID are… well… ugly and bad drawed. You could make some new ones, with anti-alias, by people who know how to draw… It would be cooler.

If I knew how to make these, I would do something cool. Where’s the specifications?

I think the monsters are totally cool looking

That’s great. I’ve been wondering when gravatar would implement something like this.

@Alenônimo
Can’t really argue with you there although at least Identicons don’t take any drawing skills. Anyway funnily enough, someone who knows how to draw voluntarily drew up some cool new monster for the MonsterID plugin. It takes a bit more processing power to color them in though so not sure how gravatar would handle it (although I think you might be able to cut out the inner shading and just overlay it like Shamus does with the Wavatar’s gradients).

Also since I don’t want to steal anybody’s thunder, the original ideas for Identicons came from Don Park and from Andreas Gohr for MonsterId’s.

second that, those 3 above is ‘not a pleasant avatar’.

IMO the default Gravatar is presentable maybe you could create a transparent background (PNG or GIF) instead of the default “blue”.

Neat idea. I like it.

Alenônimo: they are generated by computers from a list of pre-made shapes and styles and are based on the e-mail hash. Click the links for Wavarar and MonsterID in the original post above and you’ll see.

Shame that this was a priority over reversing the pulling of alpha-transparent PNG during the last downgrade that broke many people’s gravatars—which they had already been happy with.

Is there some way to set a second default if the wavatar fails? Some of the trackbacks on my blog don’t have an associated email address, so I end up with an empty 2 pixel square box where the avatar should be.

I created a heart shaped gravatar image as the default for my site.

I agree with Bruce. One thing people _are_ asking for is PNG’s and transparency…

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Perfect, thanks…

I think the Wavatars look great!

The monsterid is cute!

I love the idea, but I’m hoping better looking sets will be added. I think I’ll go for the Wavatars.

Cool! I Stumbled this.

I do agree with Alenonimo though, the monsters and wavatars aren’t very slick and hopefully it will be possible for the plugin to accept customized blog iconsets

Jacob

It would help if the Gravatar logo could be customized a bit. Like change the size and colors. I’m not impressed with the other three.

Gravatar Blog + Safari 3.1 (Mac) don’t play well together…weird.

I’d like to see transparency and PNG too!

I prefer having my own default avatar. Frankly, all the “default” gravatars are quite ugly

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the idea is good, the execution is …

hopefully this will inspire someone to make nicer looking default avatars (auto-generated or not)

Dig the idea, and thanks for making it easy to execute, but . . .

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1618#comment-92317

It would’ve been nice if you’d at least notified the plug-in authors before taking over their inventions. Even better, how about tossing some of that $29M in venture capital in their general direction?

After all, a blog thanks a respect knuckles don’t pay the bills, you know?

This is dead sexy. I have the Easy Gravatars plugin installed now, and replaced the “default image URL” value with simply ‘wavatar’ and… it works! No muss, no fuss, no diddling around with my theme code. Color me thrilled.

(I love Mandingo: Not once have I had to touch the raw PHP files, and I have random banner graphics and my Google Analytics and Gravatar/Wavatar support and… yeah. Dead sexy.)

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just a pale (partially transparent) blue G would suit me

Why not just allow anyone with a Gravatar account to upload their own image that will display for anonymous or non-gravatar users? Couldn’t this be just as easily acheived as Gravatar is to begin with?

John, you can pass a URL to the default parameter to redirect it to your own image, a semi-transparent blue G, anything you want. That’s the whole idea.

matthewmmoore: edit your theme and hide Gravatars for trackbacks via a conditional.

this is related to matthewmmoore’s question — but if someone doesn’t enter their email address it displays a broken image. is there a way to hide gravatars if no email address is present — i mean, i’m sure there is but i’m not smart like that. can someone help me out with some simple instructions?

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I hope for hoping better / eye shooting looks will be added. I think I’ll go for the Wavatars.

These are a nice addition as the blue G isn’t a great default for most sites.

I’d like to see a more subtle 4th set added, just something to brighten the comments up but nothing really OTT like the monsters. The Identicons are nice but are too bright for black backgrounds.

I loveing it! The look to sweet!

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As noted by Travis and matthewmmoore comments without an email address (Which includes trackbacks) return an invalid image URL. This is an implementation problem with WordPress (And possibly other blogs, not sure), not Gravatar. I look to Automattic for a fix, since it’s their application

Nice.

Implementing this with WordPress 2.5 turns out to be super easy. All that has to be done is to add a third parameter to the get_avatar call. So mine looked like this before:
echo get_avatar($comment, 40);

And now it looks like this:
echo get_avatar($comment, 40, ‘identicon’);

Just that simple.

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Nice! And so easy. I have also developed a cool little plugin to allow local avatars for registerd users of your blog…
Here’s the link - http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/03/01/avatars-plugin/

So, now you can have the best of all worlds! Gravatars, personalised Gravatars, and localised user Avatars!

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MonsterID, yes, well… how about OpenID, guys?

This sounds like a solution looking for problem. We can customize what the guest/missing icon looks like for years. Or am I missing something? Oh, yes. Transparent support many many people want and use that got pulled.

Weird priority if you ask me.

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I do think that you have to improve resizing of the default blue G. I have 50×50 px Gravatars, and when I tried the ‘default’ option the resize of the G was awful, so I *had* to go back to the plain white/gray man.

And could exist the posibility of having identicons (or even blue Gs) for trackbacks and pingbacks? If not, the border I assigned to gravatars would look quite nonsense.

Thanks!

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yes ça marche
merci
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not bad… trying this out now

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Excellent information. That one little line has completely changed how my comments look on my blog. Thank you!

Am I missing something? They all are precisely the same image.

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I see there is a hiden (not discussed) option for gravatar link: &forcedefault=1 (&f=1 in v2.0) simply f or f=0 also force the default gravatar.
Can someone confirm please?

If confirmed, I would like to see this:
f=0 force to display a registered gravatar - if exists.
If an user doesn’t have a gravatar acount, his email will get a default gravatar which gets into gravatar.com cache. If the user registers, he gets a new gravatar for all his gravatar links, except for that used before registration (that one still uses the monsterid default from cache).
Here is a sample:
http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/ca410f7351dcd7534d934e46a3f4927f?s=25&r=g - registered gravatar
http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/ca410f7351dcd7534d934e46a3f4927f?s=25&r=g&d=monsterid - the monsterid gravatar used before registration, which still stays in cache (btw… how long does it take for the cache to be refreshed?)

In this respect, I would like &f=0 to force the registered gravatar and not the default (maybe to refresh the cache for that email)
Is it possible?

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Thanks alot. I’ve used this trick for my blog

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i wish you could give us a random image with one single image url only.
so i can get all those 4 (or more) images randomly rotate and accessed by one single url.
thanks

slightly nicer wavatars rendering I found: http://blog.dmcleish.id.au/2007/12/20/wavatar-artwork/

but I would prefer a less “aggressive” theme, if anyone comes up with one :-/ No graphic artist myself…

How ’bout some sort of example avatars in the WP admin page so we know what the random icons look like for general users?

Great post!

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The future is now with these Gravatars, a nice touch making web 2.0 a reality.

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Thank you!

thanks this will greatly help

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