Creates a unique, persistent geometric icons avatar for each commenter based on email address.
This plugin provides a small randomly assembled icon made from geometric shapes (e.g. snowflakes or quilts) for each user based on their email address. Think gravatar only without requiring any external site and with consistently themed geometrical icons. Now with icons consistent across servers. Based on idea and images by Don Park. See the plugin website if you need any help or for an example of the plugin in action.
wp_identicon.zip
. wp_identicon.php
and the identicon
folder to wp-content/plugins
. identicon
folder is writable. img.identicon
in your theme’s style.css to adjust the appearance of the images or adjust the size in the Identicon control panel (your old identicons won’t be deleted until you clear the cache). You can also turn on Gravatar support or clear the Identicon image cache in the Control Panel.Yes, if they’re using the standard version (and I didn’t mess up anything).
Yes. Just turn on the Gravatar option in the Identicons options page.
Yes, this plugin provides a replacement widget to Recent Comments (since the default widget doesn’t provide the commenter’s email).
Yes, just select the WP 2.5+ Theme option to the Automatically Add Identicons setting in the Identicon control panel.
The gravatar identicons are pretty good but if you want more control (custom colors, transparent backgrounds, different numbers of blocks) or just want one set of avatars for everyone on your site, then this plugin’s for you. Otherwise, sure go with gravatars (just set &default=identicon
in the gravatar url).
Probably (if I have time/know how). It’s definitely worth a shot since I’m always looking for feedback on how to improve my plugins.