This is quite a useful tip that lets you add your own gravatar to your WordPress blog/theme/site. For example, here on [wp], if the user doesn’t have a Gravatar then the following gets displayed:

This tip applies especially to magazine themes, where the standard ‘bloggy look’ is something that designers try and get as far away as possible from.

It’s super easy to do – upload the your gravatar image you want (to be displayed when people don’t have an avatar) to /your-theme/images/, having resized it to 100×100 pixels. Then, open up your functions.php file and add the following code (changing the gravatar’s filename if necessary):

<php if ( !function_exists('fb_addgravatar') ) {
function fb_addgravatar( $avatar_defaults ) {
$myavatar = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/gravatar.jpg';
//default avatar     $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = 'Exciting new gravtar';
return $avatar_defaults;
}
add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'fb_addgravatar' ); } ?>

And you’re done.

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