[wp-hackers] Gravatar + Feed integration for avatars on Planets

[Ozh]

Sort of related random thought for anyone interested: planet is a
really old piece of software and it behaves quite badly with a lot of
feed. I've really simplified my life when I got rid of it in favor of
FeedWordPress.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> Somewhat sounds similar to a Blavatar, Which is an Avatar for a blog
> or something.. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/go-get-a-blavatar/
>
> 2009/1/21 Ryan McCue <ryanmccue at cubegames.net>:
>> Jeremy Visser wrote:
>>> Well, I think this could be improved. WordPress should look at the site
>>> administrator's e-mail address, turn it into a Gravatar URL, and put it
>>> somewhere in the RSS and Atom feeds.
>>>
>>
>> IMHO, this should be done on the aggregator end. I'm not sure if WP does
>> so, but feeds can specify an email address in the author element (for
>> each item for RSS [1], otherwise or in the feed element itself in Atom
>> [2] ), and Planet could work from that.
>>
>> [1]: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-author
>> [2]: http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#recommendedFeedElements
>>
>> --
>> Ryan McCue
>> <http://cubegames.net/>
>>
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