Getting user avatars is now easier than ever
Getting user avatars is now easier than ever
Say goodbye to those annoying work-arounds.
Recent changes by Wikidot to the way user avatars are stored means that we can now get a user's avatar without having to resort to exotic server-side or javascript based solutions. Avatars are available at the following url:
// Full size version
http://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=YOUR-ID
// 16 x 16px version
http://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=YOUR-ID&size=small
So to use that in an image tag on a live template, all you need to do is:
[[image http://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=%%created_by_id%% width="40px" height="40px"]]
Thank you Wikidot.
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Discussion - 4 comments
Anonymoustsangk 04 Oct 2011 08:22
Agreed! The changes have caused my work around scrips to fail…
I have still updated my grabber script for backward-compatibility.
In the (now rare) case where only the user's username is provided, my scripts are still useful :)
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AnonymousTimothy Foster 05 Oct 2011 01:41
Excellent. This will be quite useful!
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Anonymoustsangk 06 Oct 2011 01:07
Bryce, on your home page - it says that this post has 1 comment instead of 2 (now 3)
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Anonymousbcammo 06 Oct 2011 07:19
It's a Wikidot bug. %%children%% is sometimes *very* slow to update when used in ListPages.
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