The Sackrider Family Blog

Ok – I just uploaded a new theme and I noticed my comments now post pictures beside your comments – which I thought was a cool feature.  Then I noticed there were pictures on a few of the comments that are much older than the new theme… How’d my new theme know what picture to put on old comments?  Gravatars…

I never knew they existed.  I knew about avatars.  An Avatar is a picture you associate with your comments on a forum or bulletin board like TalkCloth.com.  But a GRAvatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar – geeky but cool.  So, my new theme plugs into the Gravatar system to match your gravatar with your comments using your email address – which is how it was able to put pictures up on old comments.  Awesome!

If you don’t have one — get one – they are free…http://en.gravatar.com/

1. Dale Sackrider, II says:

   November 26, 2008 at 9:32 pm

   Testing out my new GRAvatar…
2. Donella says:

   November 27, 2008 at 6:56 pm

   lets see if mine works?
3. Dad says:

   December 3, 2008 at 11:22 pm

   Say wah?
4. Kara says:

   December 24, 2008 at 10:34 am

   Hmmm… am I still a green devil? I’m going to have to do something about this.
5. Dale Sackrider, II says:

   December 24, 2008 at 10:51 am

   Set up a gravitar using the same email address you use to leave comments!