bbPress custom gravatar

[chipbennett]

Support for functions.php was added in version 1.0 final. It wasn't in any of the betas I don't think and I'm not sure it was in the RC's either.

Well, I'll be!

Good find. :)

[Ryan]

I used to insert an include at the top of the header.php file, but that does limit what you can do with it quite a lot since it isn't fired early enough for some things.

[Otto]

In WordPress, all you have to is to set the "avatar_default" option in the database to a full URL of whatever image you want to use. This feature is not exposed through the UI because it was deemed confusing (an opinion I disagreed with).

You can also do it in the theme, if you prefer. It's the third option to the get_avatar call. Like this:
echo get_avatar($comment, 48, 'http://example.com/default.jpg');

bbPress should be similar, I'd think.

[chipbennett]

In WordPress, all you have to is to set the "avatar_default" option in the database to a full URL of whatever image you want to use. This feature is not exposed through the UI because it was deemed confusing (an opinion I disagreed with).

You can also do it in the theme, if you prefer. It's the third option to the get_avatar call. Like this:
echo get_avatar($comment, 48, 'http://example.com/default.jpg');

bbPress should be similar, I'd think.

Why would a custom default avatar setting be confusing? Just about every forum out there allows users to upload a custom avatar (or point to a URL for one). The UI for setting the default would be pretty similar.

I get the "less is more" approach, but sometimes I think the devs assume too little of users.

[curtismchale]

Wow got busy and this filled up. I'll be getting to the implementation of this in the week so I'll let you know what worked and why. Thanks.

[Ryan]

I get the "less is more" approach, but sometimes I think the devs assume too little of users.

I always assumed it was because they wanted to promote gravatar.com.

[curtismchale]

Yeah but this wouldn't take away from gravatar it would just provide a properly branded default. I guess it would be less ugly so it might take away from gravatar. Like I said I'm using a plugin right now and when I added it more people went and got the gravatar so they looked different from each other again.