WordPress – Legacy of comments.php For 2.7 And Beyond

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During the State Of The Word address in not-so-recently held WordCamp New York, Matt Mullenweg gave a sneak preview of a plethora of new (and cool) features being included into the next WordPress release (2.7). I had since then been toying around with the almost ? version (of nightly builds) for a while and now that it is in ? stage, I believe I can discuss one of the really cool features and some code-change required to make some pre-2.7 themes incorporate it.

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PHP – Displaying Gravatars In A Non-WordPress Application

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Citing their website, an Automattic.com joint:,

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

It’s free and with one account, one can register and assign multiple email address the same (or different) avatar(s).

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