by Donncha
Avatar powered recent comments
If you have the recent comments widget on your blog you might have noticed a small change to it this afternoon. Now, next to each comment link is the avatar of the person who left the comment.
By default the widget will display 48×48px avatars but if it’s not to your tastes, then visit your widgets page and you can change the size of those images, and even disable them if that suits.
Happy Fourth of July to all our US users, and as Automattic is an international outfit, there’s still someone here bashing away at the keys and keeping an eye on things!
July 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
You guyz are fantastic… I was on my way to announce this feature before it appears on official blog :D. Great improvement… we don’t need no mybloglog anymore!!! Anyway I hate that service….
Congrats!!!
July 4th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
thx
July 4th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I was going to ask about the size, cause they seemed a little big. Nice touch!
BTW- I thought it would be cool if we could change or customize the generic avatar that gets left for those outside WP (or for WPers who haven’t picked an avatar). Just thought that might add some more flair.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
This rocks! Thanks!
July 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Oops, just saw it in my comments
July 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Cool. And thanks for the Happy 4th ^_^.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Loving!
It!
Killer!
Cool!
THANK!
YOU!
July 4th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
thanks for the info. copy and out. 1040
July 4th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Great feature, thanks
July 4th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I saw it before you announce it! Looks very pretty!! Thank you!
But some new themes?!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
nice one. you rock! thanks.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
this is dAMN coooooooool!!!
loved it!!!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I like this new feature! Great job!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
but how the avatar of other blogs showing up???
July 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
It makes for a festive front page for those of us who put the widget out there, but there are a lot of ghost faces from commenters who either are not with WordPress or do not upload avatars. Thanks for always thinking of us! Happy Fourth.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Happy fourth of July to you too!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
pretty good
July 4th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
very cool …
July 4th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
sUPER sUPER cOOL!!
♥
July 4th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
great boys…. wordpress always comes up with new ideas .. which a commen bloggers wants.. to have in his or her blog….
Kudos to WordPress.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
It looks awesome… I wonder if we could have our avatars on each post like you guys.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Thanks a lot…it looks very nice
July 4th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Yes, it’s nice. Does it take a while to update, though, or is that just a teething glitch?
July 4th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
this is awesome… wordpress everytime doing the best
July 4th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
nice
July 4th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Thanks.
July 4th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
thanks guyz i like it
July 4th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Very nice but I’m with ChenZhen : “I was going to ask about the size, cause they seemed a little big”
July 4th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Sorry, did’t read well. You can resize the icons.
¡Great!
July 4th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
thanks for including the disable option . . . ugh
July 4th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
i noticed it a few hours ago. thanks WordPress!
July 4th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Thank you very much :*
July 4th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Very very cool
July 4th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
thanks for allowing us to not have the avatars on our site. Most of my readers aren’t wordpress users (silly folk!) and the blank people next to their names looked, well, icky! So thank you again for instituting so many awesome things, and for allowing us to chose whether we love them or not. You guys do, in fact, rule!
July 4th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Great job. It was a pleasant surprise to see the avatar. It has been suggested in the comments above, the choice for non-WPers to choose an avatar from limited range would be a good idea.
I never really liked MyBlogLog. This is much better.
A Big Bang for a Happy 4th!
July 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
mybloglog is a very good service and there improving it daily. I like having two options for my avatar
July 4th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Looks like there are changes to other widgets as well.
I like it!
July 4th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
What if you have an ex-boyfriend who’s avatar you don’t want to see in your comments widgit? Can the admin at wordpress somehow photoshop him to look like the devil so that I feel better about it?
July 4th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
nice…
July 4th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Thank you so much for ensuring that this feature could be disabled.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Ooh…. sorry, i really, really don’t like it… probably because most of the people who’ve commented don’t have avatars and the blank ones are too bright for my site. Maybe if the default were more low key… it could be ok at 32×32, but for now I’m switching it off.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
How cow, that was a complete surprise! Awesome.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Yey! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
Thanks for this widget.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Good idea!
I’d wish comments would appear in small caps, tough…
July 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
This is a beautiful addition to the mix. Thanks so much, WP team! ^^
July 4th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Oh great, I’m getting rid of them from my blog because they’re annyoing, though, I still kind of like them
July 4th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
tnx. not a user of this feature, but it looks nice.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
thank you guys ! a nice addiction !
{ps = they recorgnize the Gravatar service too, or simply registered WP.com users ?}
July 4th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
gala grande!
July 4th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Nice but I am glad I can switch it off.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I love it! Thank you.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:08 am
you guys are AWESOME!!!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Good idea to colorize a bit more the blog…I just shortened them from 48 to 16, They are tiny now! thanks…ou merci pour ceux qui savent lire ceci!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Glad to see that there are options for resizing and disabling this.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:25 am
http://basincityblues.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/
xoxoxoxo from Sweden
July 5th, 2007 at 12:35 am
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July 5th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Thank you Donncha.. Nice eye
BTW, when I want to fill in the background colours.. I have to fill in the colour HTML code, right?
July 5th, 2007 at 12:54 am
wow…. nice improvement
…
July 5th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Just want to see my own Avatar to the left of this comment.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:59 am
It’s very wonderful!!
Thank you so much.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Love it! Posted about it! I agree with a few others with some more theme options when you have a chance!!!
Thank you!!!! WP Rocks!
July 5th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Great job!!
Keep up the good work
July 5th, 2007 at 1:42 am
I dig it! Makes the comments section on my site much easier to read too! I agree, you should let non-WP’ers upload some avatars, or at least choose from a generic bank of avatars.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:44 am
very nice implementation of avatars. could you add a “blank” avatar instead of the ghost one? like chenzhen said in comment #3
July 5th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Just another classy addition that separates WordPress from the rest!
Cheers!
July 5th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Great Job!
You Guys Rock!!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:01 am
thanks from here too!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:09 am
I don’t like this feature. The avatars are far too big. And as many of my commentators don’t have blogs of their own, it looks awful…grey non-faces. Please have an option where we can turn this off.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Really excellent change. I love it. Thanks!!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:42 am
i live in the usa. happy fourth of july. and look at my avatar an american flag, people.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:45 am
great job!
it’s very coool…
regards,
adi.n
July 5th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Great addition. Thanks.
July 5th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Quite a few of my blog-friends are using non-WordPress hosts (silly, silly people!). Would it be possible to have a reciprocal arrangement with other blog-hosts so that avatars may spread across the hosts? There are probably very good commercial reasons not to do this, but technically it would be an interesting challenge.
(Applying reverse psychology - once it becomes possible, someone will want to try it
)
July 5th, 2007 at 3:33 am
One more thing to add. I feel like a fool after this new feature came into being. Mostly its my mug out there in the Recent Comments!
July 5th, 2007 at 3:41 am
good
July 5th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Its great!! i like it. Happy 4th of july!!! ^^,
July 5th, 2007 at 3:54 am
very cool!
like it.
July 5th, 2007 at 4:20 am
please!, im from argentina, and i think if you whant put something new, please put something useful, the avatar for the comments is so ugly!, i put off that upgrade.
think in what the bloggers need, anyone need the avatar in the windget of the comments, for example, i need put adsense of google in a post, but i can’t. And that makesme ungry!
hi from my part!
July 5th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Hey, cool feature. I noticed though that the avatar for a wordpress blogger is now missing from her comments. Her image was there before, and now it’s just a generic avatar. Maybe she got rid of her avatar? I haven’t asked. The avatar for our own comments look great.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Sweetness!
Keep those ideas flowin’!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:30 am
YAY! Badass… Thanks!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Heheeey this is great!!
Thanks again for your good work guys!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:39 am
This is the third time I am commenting, sorry! Its just that I am very disturbed with this new feature where I can see just my face in the comments. I have temporarily removed this widget. I feel really bad about that. I will get it up ocassionally when people with blogs make comments.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:39 am
I love it! I really like that you are constantly looking to update, improve and enhance WP. Is there a way to require WP users/commenters to use some form of avatar to avoid the ghosty ones? Keep up the good work, WP Rocks!!
July 5th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Doesn’t seem to be working perfectly though. One time I see the most recentl comments and other times I don’t.
Awesome improvement though..
How ’bout some more widgets?
July 5th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Looks nice and it seems to give a certain dynamic to those pages who have the comment widget activated but what will happen for those who have no uploaded avatar? I mean yeah, I can see that right now it displays that gray contour, but will you work on that also or it will remain the same? ’cause I was thinking, for the sake of aesthetics at least [
], that it would be nice to make the colour of the contour match that of the theme each member selected. Just my two cents. Anyway, looks cool what you did untill now.
P.S: Happy 4th of July for all you Americans.
July 5th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Nice, and with opt-out option for anyone who hates change, whoever that might be!
I didn’t notice this until I saw the news feed since I don’t usually get comments
July 5th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Very cool feature! job well done!!
July 5th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Fantastic! 10Q!
July 5th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Your is pretty cool…also my thanks to WP…for all what they propose.
July 5th, 2007 at 7:25 am
very cool, i love to see pictures…
July 5th, 2007 at 7:25 am
The best feature about this new feature is, that you can disable the avatars
July 5th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Thanks for the great add-on.
I agree with above comment that it would be better if non-wordpress users could use external avatars.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers!
July 5th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Nice features. Love it. Tks
July 5th, 2007 at 8:06 am
it is very cool, thank you, but i think there are still some problems when we click on a post to see its comments: i guess the widget creates some confusion with all the last comments and that single post comments.
i don’t know… maybe it is beta!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Really good. Just missing and wnating it before. Thanks guys.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:21 am
great work. keep it up guys!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:22 am
It’s a nice feature for some people, but I don’t need it. So thank you for the alternative to turn it off completly !!!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:35 am
very great!
tae.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:36 am
great!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Glad you told me, I thought it was something I had done!
Think I will make them a bit smaller, they seem to swamp my theme
July 5th, 2007 at 8:41 am
That is nice, thank you!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Where is the user guide to keep-off those avatars ?
July 5th, 2007 at 8:55 am
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July 5th, 2007 at 9:49 am
this is fantastic. now i can’t hide my faces. lol.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I agree with ann, now avatars are visible it brings more the idea of a community. It is a small change that creates better blogging environment!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Amazing, thanks a lot!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:53 am
really cool!!!!!!!1
July 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Yay! Thank you!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Very cool ! I like it, in fact WP.com is the best blogging system of the many that I have tried. Keep up the good work.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Good….. Nice make me happy….coz that
July 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Yup, just noticed it! Cool!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
It would be nice if we could set avatars for non-WP users to just not display at all. But overall you guys = awesome.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Good, Job…
Saw it today..is a great thing..
July 5th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Thanks.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Fantastic! Thanks WordPress!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
hey thats good i think hehe
July 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Great !
Thankx
July 5th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Great addition! Thank you!
July 5th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
cool!!!thankss!!!
July 5th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
That’s Great ,,,
Thanks ,,,
July 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Cute! I like it.
July 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Neat.. It makes so much more interesting, when you have a face for the comment..
July 5th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Hate it.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
so cool. WordPress keeps getting better and better.
July 5th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
great!
July 5th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Thank you.
July 5th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
It’s fine with the avatars, but it gives problems at my blog at the moment so things doesn’t fit in at the moment…
July 5th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
why do they let you make widgets?
first the flickr widget, now this one:
WHAT IS YOUR OBSESSION WITH TABLES?
an avatar is not tabular data, any more that the post, or the name of the commenter are.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Great feature!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Yeah I noticed it and think it looks cool
July 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Cool!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Glad this came with the option to turn off!
July 6th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Thank you for giving us the ability to not have the avatar show up. I saw it and didn’t like it that much. I’d gladly trade my comments avatars for my ‘feed stats’ back.
jb
July 6th, 2007 at 1:48 am
very cool
July 6th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Nice. I really am loving wordpress. It’s fantastic.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Great job indeed! There’ll be more features coming up I guess.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Great feature,but now you should develop some tool for blog admins ,to put avatars of people who give comments…
July 6th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Cool!
THANK!
YOU!
July 6th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
That makes it look more interesting and informative. Thanks.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
yeah!
July 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I like the little avatars too….
July 6th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I love the new avatar powered recent comments.
But as many others said. Do s.th about the icon of non-WP posting users please. The image doesn’t fit very well in some of the WP Themes.
There’s the suggestion to let the non-WP users decide which icon appears next to their name when posting. But I would prefer a more user configurable approach.
Let the blog owner decide which icon fits most for his blog/theme.
Let him/her upload an icon to his/her blog which can be chosen in the widgets preferences as an icon for non-WP user or users who don’t have chosen an icon already.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
It’s perty
Love it!! Helps keep them sorted out.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
You guys are proving you are WordPress once & twice again ;
July 6th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Nice thing.. I just realized that there is something new in the comment widget.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
YEAH!!!!!!!
Better than sliced bread!!!!!
July 6th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
What a great addition!
Very Useful.
Thanks
July 6th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Oh I want to see my avatar =)
July 6th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Interesting! A nice touch indeed
July 7th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I like it. In fact, I just uploaded my own avatar this evening! What timing!
July 7th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Cool!
Nice feature! :D:
July 7th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Good idea but I like them a bit smaller.
July 7th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Sorry, I’m not a fan. If non-WordPress folks’ avatars would show, that’d be a different story. But right now, it’s just distracting.
July 7th, 2007 at 11:43 am
its really cool
July 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Just tryin’ it out. Never mind the crazy foodie. thx
July 7th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Forgive me if as usual I do not join in the euphoria. The avatars in recent comments are marked up with a table based layout for heavens sake. And the CSS is in the header. There go standards.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Well, you guys are great!
July 7th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
cool
July 8th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Great!
July 8th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Thanks for the tip, it was helpfull
July 8th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Going to play with the size before I decide about disabling it or not. Thanks for the options and as always, thanks for coming up with new features for us. Even when we don’t want them, someone else probably does and so that’s why WP is great. Everyone gets to be happy.
July 8th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Yippie. Can we please get feed stats back now?
July 8th, 2007 at 4:51 am
me encantó la idea!!!
♥
July 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am
yea awsome
its kool.. :)~
July 8th, 2007 at 9:55 am
kool
July 8th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
i dont get it!
July 8th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
that one was good… kewl…!! tx guys!!
July 8th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Ironically I uploaded an avatar before reading the about the comments widget, but now I’ve got to comment to see it in action!
July 8th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Nice!
July 9th, 2007 at 2:42 am
wow.. i m loving it,,
thx guys,,, great work..
proud of WP..
July 9th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Like it.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:17 am
yeah thats nice… WordPress Rocks
July 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Useless. 99% of all comments are from external users who don’t have an avatar.
What is really needed is the feature of wordpress.org: whoever posts a comment can chose to receive by email further comments to same post.
When I commen t to posts which do have that feature, I recieve follow ups on my coments and often get back to give further answers.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
^^ Good luck everybody
July 9th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
nice
July 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Brilliant… Even though i think making them a tad smaller wouldn’t hurt!
July 9th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
cool.. I cant wait to get this.. spread the smileys
July 10th, 2007 at 2:14 am
I like the change.
Thanks for constantly keeping me on my toes
July 10th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Thank you for making this feature optional, including the size options.
For the future, any way the new features’ default can be off, then alert us how to turn it on? This feature was not as disrupting as Snap Preview, but since these types of features affect readers, I would prefer to know in advance about them
July 10th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Cool!
July 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Nice!
July 10th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
thnx
July 11th, 2007 at 2:48 am
yay! i just joined and saw this, got one
July 11th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Very pleased to see my avatar.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Nice touch…..
July 12th, 2007 at 4:25 am
wordpress never ceases to amaze me…. your innovations in the blogging world is entirely on a different level!!!! excellent job!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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July 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am
I noticed it and was thrilled with it. I posted about it, too. Except, I misunderstood. I thought there was a way I could upload the pictures for the non-WP sillies. Now I feel silly, myself, because I have a couple pictures that commenters sent to me for upload, and I can’t.
I think it’s a great idea, though, and appreciate your work on it!
July 13th, 2007 at 1:55 am
All the avatars look great, including the wordpress ones. I like the idea of being able to choose something besides the generic gray silhouette too.
July 13th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
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July 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Nice work! Thx!
July 15th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
THNX WORD PRESS
July 16th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Kewl
July 17th, 2007 at 3:44 am
thats some very good feature..
thanks..
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 am
? people are weird
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
well done! WordPress rulez!
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