Gravatar hovercards ?

[iranzo]

I found http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-hovercards/ while checking for something else, something we want to add?

[talha131]

Our author field is much better than this. Don't you think? See #185

Pelican even has option of creating author pages.

What we can do is to fetch avatar from gravatar and show it beside author. We will probably have to make a plugin first.

[iranzo]

If we want to fetch from gravatar it's really easy (https://es.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/ ):

• [ ] define author email
• [ ] get md5 hash of email
• [ ] Request image from https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/HASH

Seems that https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/gravatar does that for us providing that data to the templates

[talha131]

Good find. I have added it to the roadmap.

[silverhook]

How about https://www.libravatar.org/?

[talha131]

We can't use gravatar plugin. It won't work with our authors field.

What we can do here is

• [ ] add a avatar field to the AUTHORS dictionary
• [ ] if it is defined then we show it along with the blurb

This way user can himself decide whether he wants to use gravatar, imgur or libravatar.

[iranzo]

Sounds good

[talha131]

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[talha131]

Guys let me know (esp. @iranzo @azzamsa) what do you think of this dict keys

    "Talha Mansoor": {
        "url": "https://www.oncrashreboot.com/",
        "blurb": "is the creator and lead developer of Elegant theme.",
        "avatar": "/images/avatars/talha131.png",
    },

specifically do you think avatar key should be replaced with something better?

I will hold on the release for few days until I hear back from you.

[iranzo]

Can we provide 'avatar' as 'url' ? In that case we can use gravatar or whatever we want, we can either go to gravatar and copy url from there and one file less to add to repo as static one

for example, in my case: https://es.gravatar.com/userimage/47837087/6e8d2c6bc801fb6ea9cdad090b4f5814.jpg?size=200

BTW, what about the size for the image? any limitation or does the template fixes it? (Seems 32x32 right? )

thanks

[talha131]

Yes, you can give any url, gravatar or imgur or whatever.

I have fixed size to 32x32. Least distractive.

[iranzo]

+1 from me to merge then :)

[azzamsa]

Looks good to me. Github use the same thing except it has gravatar_id

"avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
"gravatar_id": "",

[talha131]

Cool. Then we are going to stay with avatar key.

[talha131]

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 3.1.0 :tada:

The release is available on GitHub release

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