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

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

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.

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]”

P@r@noid Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
This is nice…
I will implement it on my blog as well
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March 9th, 2009 at 4:16 PM
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coco Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Thanks
Admin
Twitter: vishalgaikar
Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Hmmm… I am also trying to implement it on this site
Nachi Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Bhai.. link is not working… I can’t downloading.. It says some error..
Please take action
Girly Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 7:20 AM
I always read your great news.Anyway thanks.
Admin
Twitter: vishalgaikar
Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Thanks dude
VuseNeurf Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Be smart, but never show it.
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December 21st, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I am also trying to implement it on this site
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January 25th, 2010 at 1:07 PM
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Admin
Twitter: vishalgaikar
Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 12:57 AM
Hey Gov,

Thanks for your valuable comment

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