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Gravatar (globally recognizable avatar) is a globally accessible avatar storage service, used, in particular, by StackOverflow.

Gravatar is a service, that stores unique user identifier pictures - "avatars". Stored avatar can be accessed through URL containing MD5 hash of user's e-mail. If supplied MD5 was not rcognized, service generates an unique image pattern for it.

This tag is appropriate for marking questions concerning Gravatar usage and structure (e.g. embedding Gravatar images into guestbook engine, etc)

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Adding class to gravatar img in wordpress

I've been trying to use get_avatar to display the author's gravatar under each post in wordpress template with applied class but I couldn`t find a way to add class="pic-2" to gravatar image code or even changing gravatar heigth and width to 100px…
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How should i check if gravatar exist?

using this gem https://github.com/sinisterchipmunk/gravatar how do i check if gravatar for specified email exist or not? I think i am missing some force default option? Because this url = Gravatar.new("generic@example.com").image_url always return…
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Gravatar API for Java

Where should I start if I want to integrate Gravatars for the users in my Java application?
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Stack Overflow Userpic generation (Identicons)

i an creating a website in C# ASP.NEt and want to use a feature similar to Stack Overflow, Every time a new user registers on the StackOverflow.com he is assigned a default user picture until he has a gravatar, Now every picture is different from…
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Check if some email address register at gravatar?

How can I just return false or true if email address is register at gravatar with php? Tnx
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What is a good gravatar example email?

I just made a demo after seeing a similar one in the Ember.js documentation that gets your gravatar based on your email. I’m currently using tomster@emberjs.com as the default but that seems wrong as it’s a React app. Does anybody know of a good…
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How does gravatar adjust the colour in your images automatically?

I decided I wanted to change my gravatar to be circular. I have it circular on my blog with css and prefer the effect so decided to use a bit of imagemagick to give my image a circular alpha channel (so I could have it on SO, e.t.c. as well). a…
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What is the difference between md5sum output and Python hashlib output?

Why is the output of hashlib.md5().hexdigest() different than md5sum and openssl output? $ echo "test string" | md5sum f299060e0383392ebeac64b714eca7e3 - $ echo "test string" | openssl dgst -md5 (stdin)= f299060e0383392ebeac64b714eca7e3 $…
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Using gravatar in django

I'm willing to use gravatars in my Django app. In the application cw I created a templatetags directory with the following architecture: cw/ templatetags/ __init.py__ gravatar.py views.py ... the gravatar.py…
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Determine if gravatar return default image using javascript

var gravatar1; var gravatar2; var email1 = $(email1).val(); email1 = $.trim(email1); email1 = email1.toLowerCase(); email1 = md5(email1); gravatar1 = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' + email1; var email2 = $(email2).val(); email2 =…
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How do you force Gravatar into displaying identicon

Is there any way to force gravatar to always return the identicon URL? The only way I found so far is: ?forcedefault=1&default=myCustomGeneratedImageUrlHere. However I don't want to generate an identicon myself. Any ?forceIdenticon param?
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Open source gravatar-like implementations?

I'm already using gravatar icons for the users of my web service. However, I'm finding several problems with this approach: Only a small percentage of the users take the time to set up a gravatar profile. My users are not tech-savvy, but would be…
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Gravatar No Longer working over https

For months we have been using a different default gravatar image for members of the site but suddenly this is no longer working. Here is the error "we cannot complete this request remote data could not be fetched" when directly trying to reach the…
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Which itch does a gravatar scratch?

This is a very serious question: I've seen lots of threads here about gravatars but I couldn't find and answer to this question: what computer identification/authentication (?) problem, if any, are gravatars supposed to solve? Neither the Wikipedia…
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How to add AjaxControlToolkit's Gravatar Control before or after checkbox in checkboxlist control

I have a CheckBoxList control that contains dynamically generated checkbox items. This checkboxlist will contain usernames. I am using Gravatar control from AjaxControlToolkit to allow users to have their own profile pictures. What I want is that…
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