After getting completely frustrated with what seems like the shittiest WordPress plugin to get working, Gravatar for WordPress, I discovered Easy Gravatar two days later and my troubles are gone in a matter of minutes. I feel like monkey slapping some of these plugin writers and their fecking worthless documentation. If you are going to spend time writing a plugin for the rest of us to use, and we totally appreciate them…really we do, then please go the extra mile and write some thorough documentation for it. Please! The users of your code will appreciate you and may even send you a donation for your efforts. I say if you’re smart enough to write a plugin in the first place then you’re smart enough to take a couple screenshots and offer a step-by-step how to.

So what the hell are Gravatars anyway? Let me just refer to them as avatars because that’s what they really are. Basically, if you have a Gravatar account, which is free and which I have, then your Gravatar avatar will show up in the comment section of any blog on the Internet that has a Gravatar plugin activated. Cool, huh? For those who don’t have a Gravatar account then you can sign up for free, upload a custom avatar, and then your avatar will show up on our blog if you leave a comment. Richard, no Superman pictures. Silver Surfer only.

The reason that Easy Gravatar works so well is that you don’t have to manually alter your comments.php file. Which isn’t difficult…provided that the damn plugin works. No, it’s done graphically in your WordPress options. Now that’s how plugins should work.

THANK-YOU, DOUGAL CAMPBELL!