Unless I have misunderstood your question to accomplish a custom gravatar to use in your theme add the code below to your functions.php or into a custom plugin. From there customize the title and the image you want to use. See screenshot below for the finished outcome. add_filter( ‘avatar_defaults’, ‘dev_designs_gravatar’ ); /** * Display a … Read more
Ok so I think I found a solution and wanted to post in case this is an issue for anyone else. I decided to forgo trying to create a custom default avatar through buddypress specifically, which means I’m no longer talking about using the bp-custom.php file. Instead I’ve opted to create a custom gravatar option … Read more
From the core: function get_user_meta($user_id, $key, $single = false) { return get_metadata(‘user’, $user_id, $key, $single); } Pass the user id as the first argument, the key ‘author_pic’ as the second and TRUE as the third (to get a string value back).
It’s fairly simple to construct the Gravatar URL yourself, it’s just an MD5 hash of the user’s email address. <?php $gravatar=”http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/” . md5(strtolower($email)) . ‘&s=32’; ?> <div class=”avatar” style=”background: url(<?php echo $gravatar ?>);” ></div> The s parameter at the end there defines the size of the image in pixels. Using Gravatars – WordPress Codex
You can use the get_avatar filter to change the output or avatar_defaults to add new image that can be placed on your server. Here is an example code for adding new avatar that you can set as default from the Settings > Discussion page. add_filter( ‘avatar_defaults’, ‘add_new_gravatar_image’ ); function add_new_gravatar_image($avatar_defaults) { $myavatar=”http://yoursite.com/image.png”; $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = “Default … Read more
OK, so there are some occurrences of get_avatar() in your site. If you’ll take a look at docs for this function, you’ll see, that: you pass URL for default avatar image as 3rd param, you pass args as 5th param. And one of these args is: force_default (bool) (optional) Whether to always show the default … Read more
You can jump start by using following example. Here I’ll be listing users and loop through them to display avatar and display name. <?php $blogusers = get_users(); // Array of WP_User objects. foreach ( $blogusers as $user ) { /* Here passing user email and avater size */ echo get_avatar( $user->user_email , 96 ); echo … Read more
I figured this out. The server I am working on doesn’t have access to the outside. So, even though the image is in my template folder, the gravatar.com call in front of the image path was causing the error.
Just generate the URL yourself. It’s just a hash of the user’s email address. function get_gravatar_url( $email ) { $hash = md5( strtolower( trim ( $email ) ) ); return ‘http://gravatar.com/avatar/’ . $hash; } This function requires that you pass the user’s email address in … but you could do anything you need to programatically … Read more
It depends on what you call “nice” of course – it’s hard to create something meaningful with an algorithm. Someone once created a unicorn-generator, which was used on April 1, 2010 all over Stack Overflow. Your unicorn looks like this: