WordPress template

[buckmajor]

Hi there newbie here.

I only just start using wordpress and learning how to design my own theme from CSS Videos ‘Designing for WordPress’.
P.S thanks a lot Chris Coyier your the man, there is so much info to gain from your site. But one video at a time :D .

I have stumbled across a few errors on the third video of ‘Designing for WordPress’. I cant figure out why my gravatar is not working properly. By the way, I am using a virtual host ‘XAMPP’ for installing wordpress. I activated the gravatar plugin but it is not working.

Here is the error:
Error

Quote:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function gravatar() in C:Program Filesxampphtdocswordpresswp-contentthemesblankcomments.php on line 43

PHP file: comments.php

Quote:

<img src="images/search.jpg" alt="" style="margin-top: -10px;" />

<img src="<?php gravatar(‘R’, 125, ‘images/gravatar.jpg’); ?>" alt="Gravatar" class="floatleft" />

Any suggestions what I’m doing wrong here?

Many thanks in advance
CHEERS :)

[buckmajor]

Damn I must be the only one with this kind of error :shock:

[davesgonebananas]

I’m not sure where you got that code from so it’s difficult to say.

As of WordPress 2.5 Gravatar support is built-in. The theme function for accessing gravatars is get_avatar(), which returns a complete <img> tag of the avatar.

Prior to 2.5 support for Gravatar was provided by plugins, so the code you have may require you to install a plugin to work properly.

[buckmajor]

"davesgonebananas" wrote:

I’m not sure where you got that code from so it’s difficult to say.

As of WordPress 2.5 Gravatar support is built-in. The theme function for accessing gravatars is get_avatar(), which returns a complete <img> tag of the avatar.

Prior to 2.5 support for Gravatar was provided by plugins, so the code you have may require you to install a plugin to work properly.

Hi dave,

Thanks, I’m just happy someone replied back to me :D .

I actually got this code from Chris Coyier’s video tutorial ‘Design for wordpress’ and followed everything until this minor hiccup.

Are you able to show me a sample of that script and how it works? Like where do I put

Quote:

‘The theme function for accessing gravatars is get_avatar()’

code?

[davesgonebananas]

Ok, I have found the tutorial and downloaded the template. The template relies on an old plugin (Gravatar) which has been replaced by the built-in functionality in WordPress now (I think).

You can update the template by replacing the line in comments.php:

Code:

” alt=”Gravatar” class=”gravatar” />

with

Code:

comment_author_email, 40, “https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/themes/CSS-Tricks/images/missing-gravatar.png&#8221;); ?>

And in style.css change:

Code:

.gravatar { margin-top: 3px; padding: 2px; height: 40px; }

to

Code:

.avatar { margin-top: 3px; padding: 2px; height: 40px; }

[buckmajor]

Oh my GOD, oh my GOD it worked Dave, it really worked..thank you thank you :D :D ;) .
Now I understand why it didn’t work in the first place :roll: .

I have the avatar in place now, so all I have to do is align the comment tip and bubble with the CSS. So hopefully no more dramas with this :mrgreen: .

Thanks heaps Dave.
CHEERS :)

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