Due to the requests I have received, I looked at displaying the gravatar within the enhanced meta widget, and it’s easier than I thought it would be.
So I have a couple of design questions before I implement this feature, and would like to hear your comments/ideas.
1. Where in the widget should the gravatar be displayed? Simply at the top and left aligned, or somewhere else?
2. Currently the display of gravatars is controlled through the “settings->discussion” options, which controls also if gravatars are displayed in comments. I would prefer to leave the control of gravatars this way, but for those of you who use gravatars, would you want an option to control the gravatar in the sidebar (i.e. not show gravatars in the sidebar widget, but keep them enabled in the comments)?
July 27, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Having an option to display it left or right aligned would be nice. I think just below where it says “Meta” but above the “Welcome User” would be a good area to place it.
The option to turn off the gravatar in the widget would be better than using the gravatar option built into wordpress, as I’m sure some would want it displayed in comments but maybe not in the widget.