Gravatar not working correctly

lumio

Hello everyone,

I just launched my first vanilla forum and ran into one "major" problem. Gravatar is not working correctly.

When you look at my profile, you see that Gravatar is working: http://forums.cyanjoe.org/profile/6/lumio
But when you look at my discussion, it is not: http://forums.cyanjoe.org/discussion/2/welcome

Has anyone a clue what is wrong or anyone an idea how to debug that?

Thank you!

peregrine

first off it doesn't look like a gravatar in either place. is it really a gravatar or just an avatar. also what plugins are you using, and you didn't mention your version of vanilla as requested when you post a question

vrijvlinder

Do you have any other plugin like gravatar enabled ? it looks as though it is picking a default image from your theme...

vrijvlinder

If your wordpress.com gravatar image email is not the same with the one in your forum this can happen.

http://en.gravatar.com/support/wordpress-accounts/

http://en.gravatar.com/support/gravatar-locations/

I agree with peregrine about the avatar not being a gravatar image. If you look at the url it is taking it from the theme.

peregrine

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/Gravatar/default.php#L26

vrijvlinder

Yea if (C('Plugins.Gravatar.UseVanillicon', TRUE)) so he may have vanillicon also enabled and it overrides Gravatar?

[Deleted User]

Vanillicon shouldn't override Gravatar. On my forums, I have both enabled and it shows my Gravatar still shows, but I am not sure if Vanillicon still works. I have to test that

peregrine

@vrijvlinder said:
Yea if (C('Plugins.Gravatar.UseVanillicon', TRUE)) so he may have vanillicon also enabled and it overrides Gravatar

absolutely correct @vrijvlinder. it is obvious from the code as you say and as you obviously can. it will get overridden if you have the config you mentioned set to true.

lumio

Hello guys,

thank you so much, for helping!

I'm using Vanilla 2.1

The following plugins are enabled:

// EnabledPlugins
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['GettingStarted'] = 'GettingStarted';
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['HtmLawed'] = 'HtmLawed';
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['Tagging'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['Flagging'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['OpenID'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['Gravatar'] = TRUE;

Yes, my theme provides a default avatar. I tried to disable it but I have the feeling, that it is somewhere cached? If I disable it, it stays as it is.

peregrine

Yes, my theme provides a default avatar.

try

$Configuration['Plugins']['Gravatar']['UseVanillicon'] = FALSE;

The first step to troubleshooting is determining - if things work correctly with BitterSweet Theme.

report back.

if doesn't correct problem, it may be a bug in gravatar in vanilla 2.1 (possible, but unlikely since no one else reported it here (you could verify).

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26703/plugins-themes-that-work-and-don-t-work-in-vanilla-2-1#latest

I don't think it is caching problem. they probably didn't take into account gravatars.

not sure where the cyan joe theme is or came from - is it in the add-ons if so provide a link.

if you don't have gravatars- disable the gravatar plugin. it looks like you don't use gravatars, unless you signed up for one.

lumio

@peregrine said:
The first step to troubleshooting is determining - if things work correctly with BitterSweet Theme.

That was such a great help, thanks! ... okay, now I know that it is my theme.
I created the theme by myself - and as you might have guessed I'm still a newbe here.

Now the thing with my theme is the following:

if (!function_exists('UserPhotoDefaultUrl')) {
  function UserPhotoDefaultUrl() {
    return Url('/themes/' . Theme() . '/design/images/default-picture.png', TRUE);
  }
}

I tried again by commenting it out and it works now (I guess I commented the wrong part out in the first place). But the funny thing is: locally it is working as it should. Maybe there is a different order when what module is executed.

How can I use Gravatar and have a custom UserPhotoDefaultUrl()?

Thank you so much peregrine!

peregrine

leave that function out of your theme and let gravatar handle it.

enable gravatar and add this to your conf/config.php

$Configuration['Plugins']['Gravatar'[['DefaultAvatar'] = "point it to your location of default gravatar";

or rename your default-picture.png and put it in this folder.

plugins/Gravatar/default.png

report back what you did if you solve it.

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@lumio said....
I'm still a newbe here.

for future reference:

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/199091/#Comment_199091

and then add to this as you try new plugins.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26703/plugins-themes-that-work-and-don-t-work-in-vanilla-2-1