MyBlogLog Avatar WordPress Plugin
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In an effort to encourage people to join MyBlogLog.com, I've installed MyAvatars: A WordPress Plugin for MyBlogLog.
Let's see if this works properly: MyBlogLog members who leave a comment in this blog will have their avatars appear along with their comment.
What will this achieve? More traffic for your site.
As more people join MyBlogLog, they will visit your site. If you look at the righthand column of this page, you'll see the recent visitors who are MyBlogLog members. You'll also notice that their names are clickable, which means they have the opportunity to get visits from the readers of ManuelViloria.com
It's a win-win situation because MyBlogLog encourages site visits.
I'm hoping the MyAvatars plugin will help increase the number of comments here. (Somehow this reminds me of the old Themestream days...)
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UPDATE: Here's where I inserted the call to the MyAvatars function in the comments.php file --
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Testing if the MyAvatars plugin was correctly installed... (had to tweak the css file)
There you go, Manuel. Tested it. Nice informative site, all the way from here in Los Angeles.
Very cool CSS styling
Can I use it in my blog??? 
@Word_Sling - Thanks for helping out! (On another note... any relation to Mr. Go Negosyo?)
@Napolux - I just used float left in the css file of your MyAvatars plugin. The styling of the avatar (white border, shadow) is based on the Nigarila Theme.
PBS is a mybloglog member
cool plugin huh. i'll gonna install this plugin at the PBS Group blog too. yuhoooooo. thanks manny!
Forum: http://www.pinoyblogosphere.org
GroupBlog: http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com
Very cool! I hope this works for you!
Thanks, PBS and Christy!
I tried to get this plugin to work but napolux talks about adding a code to the comments.php but he's very confusing about it. What did you add to your comments.php file?
Hi TallFreak,
I've updated this post by including a screenshot (see above) of where I placed the call to the MyAvatars function. I don't know how your comments.php file looks like, but the call will come after this line:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>and just right before this line:
<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite>I hope that helps!
What the heck... to save time, here's the screenshot:
Stack errors in IE because of the MyBlogLog Avatar plugin? Thank you to Ross of QuotesInCan.com for letting me know about stack overflow error.
And a big thank you to Spud Oregon for the post on How to solve the stack overflow error.
If you choose to copy/paste Spud's workaround code, please make sure your quotes are ordinary quotes ("") and not smart quotes (“”).
Thank you Manny for this plugin. I don't know if I'm going to have any problem about stack overflow error, but I'll try it.
Anyone tried Gravatars...they're more universal than MyBlogLog, you associate your globally recognised avatar with the email accounts with which you post to blogs and your mugshot shows up as and when (assuming the blogmeister has enabled Gravvies on the site)
More info here - http://site.gravatar.com/
db
I still haven't fixed that plugin. I'm having trouble where to exactly put the code in my comments.php
I tried the screenshot but it still does not work.. I really want that plugin 
Hi Maki! Have you tried putting the reference to MyAvatars just before this line in the Mandigo theme's comment.php (line 32):
< ?php printf(__('%s says:','mandigo'),comment_author_link()); ?>
cool style!
Manuel,
I just released a new plugin that provides this same functionality but that supports both Gravatar and MyBlog simultaneously and that fixes the bugs that were in the last release of MyAvatars. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
http://www.askshane.org/wordpress-avatars
Thanks,
Shane
Shane, your WordPRess Avatars plugin works well! I solved the stack overflow issues by removing the padding settings in the css stylesheet (for images).
Shane shared with me this wonderful idea: Why not build the frame and shadow around the image using a DIV tag?
So I used this:
div.avatars2
{
background:url(img/shadow.gif) no-repeat right bottom;
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
padding:4px 10px 10px 4px;
border-top:#eee 1px solid;
border-left:#eee 1px solid;
}
The stack overflow errors are gone, and we have a nice frame with shadow effect for those viewing the comments using Internet Explorer.
All we need to figure out now is how show the same effect in Firefox.