Pages Tagged “gravatar”
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- Overstuffed Websites
I’m not ready to give up on the flexibility of WordPress for my main blog yet, but holy crap are these pages heavy. Even with compression. There’s no reason it should take 450K (before compression) and 20 requests to display a 500-word post. And I don’t even do ads, popups, social sharing buttons or anything […]
- Avatars!
Since Gravatar was bought by Automattic, the service has been a lot more stable. I had already re-enabled them on this blog before WordPress 2.5 came out with built-in Gravatar* support. Not everyone has a Gravatar, though, so many comment threads just show the default icon, over and over. Not only does this look boring, […]
- Gravatars
Well, I signed up with Gravatar, mainly so I could test the plugin. Basically the idea is that you can define an avatar that will follow you around the Internet, anywhere you post. All that’s necessary is for the site you’re commenting on to be Gravatar-enabled at the time someone visits. The one thing I’m […]