{"id":84,"date":"2007-12-18T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/alternative-wordpress-avatar-plugin\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T14:44:04","slug":"alternative-wordpress-avatar-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/alternative-wordpress-avatar-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative WordPress Avatar Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/wavatars.jpg\" alt=\"Wavatar Examples\" class=\"right\"\/><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/\">Shamus<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?cat=14\">DM of the Rings<\/a> fame) has made his own avatar generating WordPress plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1462\">Wavatars<\/a>. They do look pretty good. I like the gradients he uses and the artwork looks pretty nice (almost as good as say <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_monsterid\/\">monsters<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_identicon\/\">geometric shapes<\/a> ;) ).<\/p> \r\n<p>He has some good ideas with automatically adding the icon to the user&#8217;s name (I had thought this would mess up the html but now that I think about it should be ok for most blogs) and gravatar support (I suppose they&#8217;ll be catching on now that they were bought by the WordPress guy) that I think I&#8217;ll implement in my plugins in the near future.<\/p>\r\n<p>Hopefully we&#8217;ll see more automatic avatar generating plugins as they catch on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamus (of DM of the Rings fame) has made his own avatar generating WordPress plugin called Wavatars. They do look pretty good. I like the gradients he uses and the artwork looks pretty nice (almost as good as say monsters or geometric shapes ;) ). He has some good ideas with automatically adding the icon [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[136,141,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}