For some reason I just can't get the Comvatars package to work.
I downloaded Comvatars and the Gravatars and Favatars packs that could be attached to it. The chief problem I encountered was that my site always displays favatars but never comvatars for users. In fact, I see no place where users can specify what their comvatar should be.
I did check in my Comvatar options panel to see the directories it was pointing to, and the directory is there and so are the files in it (wp-content/comvatars/) but still i'm getting nothing. Do I need to turn off rewrite rules for this folder? Any suggestions on how to make this work?
Wow, that's really odd. I'll go double-check, but I just dropped mine in the plugins folder and didn't have a problem.
Shouldn't have to change and rewrite rules. I had to create three subdirectories under /comvatars though. if you download the image zip pack and unzip it, it will create them for you. I think I had to 777 them as well.
did u also use favatars or gravatars? I don't like favatars anymore. They make people's icons look tiny.
I use all three plugins and tell folks to either uncheck the box at dashboard -> options -> Comvatars (that way to let which ever source provides the pic to determine the size) or use a larger setting than 16 at Avatar size.
Yeah, I use the gravatars add-on.
Gravatars don't automatically add in the graphics though. The Comvatar plugin does it though for it. The Gravatar plugin makes you go in and manually place the code for the display of the graphic.
that's bizarre. Dr. Mike I just went to Manage --> Comvatars and nothing showed up.
I should point out that I am able to go to Options --> Comvatars though.
sumonta
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Posted 17 years ago #
After I installed Comvatars and activated it, in options-> comvatars it showed that "URL to registration manager is not accessible."
Moreover, when I go to manage->comvatars and put e-mail address, avatar image can't show up. It seems like path to access pictures doesn't work.
Do you guys know how to fix it?
check permissions on that image folder
Is it possible to hack the gravatars plugin such that in addition to allowing users to upload images via a url (local or remote) it also allows uploading of image files?
I know people can get around this by uploading files in the post admin and then sending to editor and copying the link into the gravatar url path, but that's not very user friendly.
Oh probably. I'd be likely to find some code (maybe in a them option page somewhere) that has this and see if I can past eit in. :)
