Show Twitter avatars in your Wordpress Comments! [Wordpress Plugin]

March 9th, 2009 | 11 Comments | Posted in Internet Tricks

twitter icon by phiredesign Show Twitter avatars in your Wordpress Comments! [Wordpress Plugin]

Wordpress has integerated gravatar support, as a result displays related Gravatar image of a commenter next to his/her comment on a Wordpress powered blog. Smashing Magazine released a new plugin which shows a commenters Twitter avatar in the wordpress comments.As we all know Twitter has become extremely popular across the Web.Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.

This plugins loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email

address. Here is the best part- if user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it first tries to load user’s gravatar. If user doesn’t have a gravatar, it loads a default image. This is an optional setting.

twittar1 Show Twitter avatars in your Wordpress Comments! [Wordpress Plugin]

Follow the simple steps >>

1.  First of all you would need to get the required plugin which you can get here

2.  Now install this plugin  and activate it.

3. Now you would need to do little editing with comments file it’s could be either comment.php or comments.php

4.  Now Find the comment loop and paste below code inside it

<?php twittar('45', 'default.png', '#e9e9e9', 'twitavatars', 1, 'G'); ?>

Links : Download Plugin | Follow me @ Twitter | More Instructions for setup this plug-in

Thanks to Smashing Magazine and Ricardo Sousa for this excellent piece of code!

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11 Responses to “Show Twitter avatars in your Wordpress Comments! [Wordpress Plugin]”

  1. P@r@noid Says:

    This is nice…
    I will implement it on my blog as well

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  3. coco Says:

    Thanks

  4. Admin
    Twitter: vishalgaikar
    Says:

    Hmmm… I am also trying to implement it on this site

  5. Nachi Says:

    Bhai.. link is not working… I can’t downloading..  It says some error..
    Please take action

  6. Girly Says:

    I always read your great news.Anyway thanks.

  7. Admin
    Twitter: vishalgaikar
    Says:

    Thanks dude :)

  8. VuseNeurf Says:

    Be smart, but never show it.

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    I am also trying to implement it on this site

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  11. Admin
    Twitter: vishalgaikar
    Says:

    Hey Gov,

    Thanks for your valuable comment :)

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