A little while ago Alper Çuğun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for an image in the hCard. This is a nice step towards URL-based identifiers rather than email based ones. However, I also wanted to show avatars for users who use Gravatar or MyBlogLog. [...]

Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins – apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did remember this time to disable tweet-tools, so I won’t be twitter spamming.) Testing comments via OpenID – if you enter an OpenID url in the “url” box of the comment field it [...]