archGFX » tutorials http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adding Gravatars to Posts http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/adding-gravatars-to-posts http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/adding-gravatars-to-posts#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:32:43 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/adding-gravatars-to-posts With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it's built for wordpress.com, so i thought I'd share my simple method. It's almost identical to the method matt posted,

<?php $md5 = md5( strtolower(get_the_author_email()) );
$default = urlencode( get_bloginfo(template_directory) .'/icons/author.png' );
echo "<img alt='avatar' class='photo' title='photo' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=$md5&size=50&rating=X&default=$default'  />";
?>

Note that this assumes your theme has an author.png inside an icon folder. Change that line to reflect the location of your default icon, or use a blank default. If you're using Sandbox, or any other hCard-enabled wordpress theme, you can insert this inside <div class="vcard">, for added microformat-y goodness. Otherwise, you can put it anywhere you like. I've also added the same code to the top of my author.php file, inside <div class="archive-meta">.

]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/adding-gravatars-to-posts/feed 5 Turning down the suck http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/turning-down-the-suck http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/turning-down-the-suck#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:44:38 +0000 adam http://www.archgfx.net/blog/index.php/2006/asides/turning-down-the-suck ...on myspace. maybe i'm dumb for not noticing this sooner.
from your myspace home page, go to account settings > privacy settings > disable band songs from automatically starting. you can also auto-decline all those bands that spam you. if only there were such an option for the porn site bots.

UPDATE:

myspace has changed their music setup.  this trick no longer works. and it never worked for video, so, there ya go.

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