How to link Gravatars to Comment Authors URL
Gravatars are globally recognized avatars that are displayed adjacent to your comment in gravatar-enabled blogs. Sounds cool? Register at their site to get a gravatar.
Your Gravatars by default in K2, will link regardless of comment author, to the gravatar website. Luckily this can easily be changed to add that extra bit of usability to your blog. Here’s how.
Open up comments.php in your favorite text editor and look for this piece of code:
<?php if (function_exists('gravatar')) { ?><a href="http://www.gravatar.com/" title="What is this?"><img src="<?php gravatar("X", 32, ""); ?/>" class="gravatar" alt="Gravatar Icon"/></a>< ?php } ?>
and replace it with this code:
<?php if (function_exists('gravatar')) { ?><a href="< ?php comment_author_url(); ?>" title="< ?php comment_author(); ?>'s website"><img src="<?php gravatar("X", 32, ""); ?/>" class="gravatar" alt="Gravatar Icon" />< ?php } ?>
comment_author_url outputs the commenter’s url and comment_author outputs the commenter’s name
Personally, I don’t think I want to do this. What about you?
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Posted on May 12th, 2006 | Category: Blogging | 6 Comments »
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Paul Stamatiou
May 12, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Nice site you have got here.
johntp
May 12, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Thanks
Lobo Schmidt
May 12, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Nice, too bad it doesn’t work with Blogger account. I wish I could migrat to another blog host service, but I’m affraid of losing some of my visitors.
johntp
May 12, 2006 at 6:01 pm
You can redirect your visitors to your new blog, by linking to it from old one. But you wont be able to take your PageRank with you
Lobo Schmidt
May 13, 2006 at 4:03 am
Yes, I’m aware of that, but still I don’t believe that the people who visits me will like to re-arrange their bookmarks. I don’t know how the mass are in India, but here in Brazil they are some lazy asses when matters is change something at their PC’s.
Thanks for the reply anyway.
PS: Like I said before, I am participating more, ain’t I? That’s the least I can do to thanks such a nice blog like this one you have.
johntp
May 13, 2006 at 6:41 am
Thanks Lobo for your kind words. And yes you are participating more. A little more and you can be listed as this month’s Top Commentator of this blog on the homepage, with a link back to your site