Habitually Good

For some reason (call it my naivety) I don’t like to install plugins to my WordPress installation unless absolutely necessary.

I also always wanted Gravatar integration in this blog, but didn’t want to install the plugin. So, imagine my joy when i discovered that there is built-in support for Gravatars in WP 2.5.

Well. it didn’t take long and I was able to integrate that into my site.

Before I tell you how to do that, the other good news is that since the support is integrated in WordPress, I can also control the settings from the Administration Panel. The settings are under the Discussion tab in Settings:

Here’s how to integrate this into your blog theme. WordPress now provides a function for embedding a Gravatar in your blog theme template files. Although the documentation is available on codex here, here is the call I used in my comments template to get it working:

<?php echo get_avatar($comment, $size = ’32′); ?>

There is one more options that you can add to that command which allows you to specify a default gravatar icon in case a user doesn’t have a gravatar icon.

Well, like I said, it gets better and better. This does look like the best release ever. To see this change in action, leave a comment.

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