WordPress Plugin: MyAvatars
ADVERTISEMENTSMyAvatars is a plugin for WordPress that displays the readers MyBlogLog avatars besides their comments. In my opinion MyAvatars is much better than Gravatars as I think most of my commenters use MyBlogLog rather than Gravatars.
To test this, I activated Gravatars for some time on this blog and found that very few commenters were using Gravatars. When I activated MyAvatars, I was happy to see most of my readers faces 
MyAvatars is easy to install, just download the file myavatars.zip, extract and copy it in your plugin directory preserving the folder name and then activate the plugin.
You will then have to edit your comments.php file and add the following code inside the comment’s loop
The disadvantage of using this plugin is that it can increase your page loading time by loading all those MyBlogLog Avatars 
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Posted on March 1st, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
Garry
March 1, 2007 at 12:39 am
John,
I noticed that today. I have been on your site for a little bit today catching up with your posts and saw that. That is a nice plugin to have. And yes… much better than Gravatars. BTW what is going on with Gravatar… are they going to get their act together? I haven’t heard any updates at all about Gravatar.com??? Do you have any info about that?
Cory OBrien
March 1, 2007 at 1:19 am
I’m starting to see this feature on more and more sites, and I like it. It gives each comment a little more personality.
Napolux
March 1, 2007 at 1:30 am
Glad you like MyAvatars
Ryan
March 1, 2007 at 2:20 am
It really doesn’t take that long to load John!
Glad to see you’re using it, and I’m glad the MBL recent visitors is back.
JohnTP
March 1, 2007 at 2:59 am
Garry- I think Gravatar went offline for some months to improve their service and I heard that they are back now.
Napolux- Yes, I really liked MyAvatars
Ryan- I brought back the MBL widget only because you requested it
Everton
March 1, 2007 at 4:53 am
Don’t forget to include my Latest Comments With Avatars Plugin that shows MBL avatars next to recent comments!
http://www.connectedinternet.c.....-reloaded/
Ryan
March 1, 2007 at 6:12 am
Sweet, I feel loved.
Garry
March 1, 2007 at 6:27 am
LOL… where have I heard that before?
Daniel
March 1, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I dont use them, but I agree that it is better than Gravatars because it is consistent with the latest readers widget from mybloglog. Should give your blog a consolidated look.
sourcer
March 1, 2007 at 4:54 pm
It’s pretty nice, I have installed on sourcer.org but on my other blog (alexblogging.com) the avatars from mybloglog appread without doing anything… I really didn’t understand that. Anyway thanks for sharing this plugin John.
Ashish Mohta
March 1, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I would prefer it as i can still keep knowing who came from mybloglog.But i would still prefer lesss things along the side…I dont think its lot of use…its all about design
Cory OBrien
March 2, 2007 at 12:05 am
With the guess my blog income post, it refused to load in Firefox, and I think it was due to the number of posts and the MyBlogLog plugin. Anyone else having that problem?
Cory OBrien
March 2, 2007 at 12:11 am
Edit: Sorry about that, I put in the wrong post reference. I have been having problems with sites that use the plugin and have a lot of comments on a single post though, and I’m wondering if it’s due to the MyBlogLog avatar plugin and Firefox. Anyone else having that same problem?
Sodhi
March 2, 2007 at 3:26 am
Been looking for it.
Last time i tried adding it to my blog, i got some weird My SQL/PHP error, maybe cos of wrong version.
Will give it a try.
Ashish Mohta
March 2, 2007 at 7:51 am
: Check out for syntaxes may be you are messing there.
Mr.Byte
March 2, 2007 at 11:30 am
This plugin is cool except for the page load time. Maybe its time to send a mail to MyBlogLog to do something about their server …
Everton
March 2, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I removed the visitor widget and even my own plugin because of the load times. Hopefully things will get better when Yahoo takes over the hosting.
Over the last couple of months I’ve started to thin that MBL got lucky with being picked up by Yahoo, as the lack of improvement and the huge flaws in their communities that aren’t being fixed proves they are nothing special
Ryan
March 2, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Everton, I’m sure the move to Yahoo has created chaos over at MBL, so it’s best to be patient.
It’s easy to attack them, but they’ve got a good thing going and it’s best we give them time.
Ashish Mohta
March 2, 2007 at 9:27 pm
I did remove too but now i am putting it back.Emailing to goggle didnt work till now.So guess if they make official we can remove then.
: Agreed with u on that good one
wildbluff_matt
March 3, 2007 at 12:20 am
Works pretty well in my comments section. Thanks for sharing, John.
dan1el
March 3, 2007 at 9:27 am
It would be nice if this plugin cached the avatars locally instead of grabbing them from mybloglog’s servers. It might reduce the load times a little.
Everton
March 3, 2007 at 4:32 pm
the speed of mybloglog’s servers, whcih can get really bad at times, are why I removed the face tracking script. It’s not so bad with the avatars in comments though as they tend to be at the bottom of the page so they’ve typically loaded by the time a user gets to that part of the page
chatca
March 5, 2007 at 8:18 am
john can i increase my traffic with mybloglog?
Ashish Mohta
March 5, 2007 at 8:27 am
: It might but to an extent.If you are very popular ppl will join your community and you might get an advantage.
wildbluff_matt
March 9, 2007 at 1:10 am
: it’s a great place for networking and meeting lots of other bloggers. I’d recommend it as a way to get some new traffic. It might not open a floodgate of visitors, but that could eventually transform to many more people if they like it and come back.
Blain Reinkensmeyer
March 9, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Hey guys, can one of you show me where to put this bad boy in the comments.php? I added mine and got it to display just fine, but for some reason in IE it gives me a “stack overflow”. I am assuming I am putting the coding in the wrong spot, but any help appreciated. Thanks!
Wendy
March 10, 2007 at 8:38 am
Interesting - I really like Mybloglog and always find it cool to see who visits, etc - am going to attempt (ha!) to put this in to my site tonight - cool, thanks!
Steve
March 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hi there,
Does a “commenter” nned to be using MyBlogLog avatars to have an avatar? I guess what I’m asking is:
- Does this allow a user to upload an avatar to the blog, if said user does not have a MyBlogLog avatar?
I was just wondering… since it would be nice to give them the opportunity to upload something when commenting.
Thank you
antrs
March 12, 2007 at 10:08 pm
maybe anya body know what plugin or something like myavatar for blogger….