Adding avatars/gravatar to a WordPress blog
You’re looking for the get_avatar function, documented here get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt ) You’ll need either a user ID, or an email to use it, something like this should do the trick: echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), ‘thumbnail’ ); If avatars are turned off in settings, this function will not return anything