CPAN was a pretty early adopter (outside of blogs) of Gravatar, and have been using them for quite a while to put a face to the name of the people who are developing the core modules of the Perl programming language. I just happened to come across this awesome page that I had to share, called The Faces of CPAN. It shows a page containing all of the Gravatars of members who have one. Very cool.
I’d love to see websites do something like this, showing their “community” of commenters via their Gravatars. Maybe I’ll write a quick plugin to do that…
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16 responses to “Faces of CPAN”
I’d love a plugin that would do that… perhaps with an opt in, opt out feature for more shy members..
keep on improving.this thing really rocks!
Provide me with a shortcode that I can add to a page that will do this and I’ll implement it, just for the sake of seeing what it looks like!
You are just 2 years and 1 week behind:
https://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/28/the-faces-of-cpan/
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LOL, I guess I should read back and see all the other wonderful stuff that has been found before I got on board 😉
WOW, that’s a really great idea 🙂
Like a thank you page for all the people commenting on your blog …
with the faces… and links back to them! that’s pretty cool!
Ok! I will code this up but I need to know how can I check if there is a gravatar for an account or not via code?
@Ashfame: you can use either simple method via 404 error or full API.
@Beau: I already told you to do that 😉
LOL that is pretty funny, almost the same title minus The THE.
Wow that is pretty cool. Wish I knew programming to accomplish such a feat. I am waiting for your plugin Beau
estamos nessa! =)
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jeffro, is this what you’re looking for?
http://binarym.com/2010/faces-of-users-plugin/
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keep on improving.this thing really rocks!
This is super. I could see more businesses using this to personalize their content.
Provide me owning a shortcode which i can include to some web page that will do this and I’ll put into movement it, just to the sake of seeing what it appears like