Gravajax Registration

By Alex on July 21 2009 | Listed under Downloads, Plugin, WordPress | 21 Comments

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I’d like to announce my new plugin ‘Gravajax Registration’. A simple plugin that adds a gravatar to your blog registration page, which automatically updates when an email is entered into the field. The idea is to make a new user feel like they are already a part of your blog’s community because their Gravatar is already there when they signup.

The meaning behind the name is obviously Gravatar + AJAX, since AJAX is used to update the gravatar without a page reload. To see a demo, head to my registration page, don’t worry though, you don’t actually need to register!

The plugin is currently very simple, and has no admin interface, it is an ‘activate and enjoy’ style plugin!

There are plans for a future version to check the Gravatar that is displayed, and if the user doesn’t have their own, then a message is displayed with a link to get one.

I’d also like to thank everyone on the WPTavern thread who helped me sort out a problem I had in making this.

You can download the plugin here: Gravajax Registration (175)

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Joshua Parker wrote on July 30 2009 at 10:44 pm | Permalink

This is a neat concept behind this plugin. It would be great if you could make one for WPMU.
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  Alex wrote on July 31 2009 at 8:46 pm | Permalink
  
  Thanks Joshua, I’m glad you like it! With the upcoming changes to the code base, I’ll probably wait and see what happens with WPMU, and if necessary I’ll make a modified version.
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eadoking wrote on August 23 2009 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much

i download it and am using it now in myblog

if you please visit and register on it
to check your great plug in
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Otto wrote on August 25 2009 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

Hey, now that gravatar.com implemented the 404, you can make this work without the PHP code back on the server or the AJAX call to it.

Check this plugin: http://ottodestruct.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/gravatar-box/

Specifically, examine this bit of code: http://ottodestruct.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/gravbox/gravbox.js
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  Alex wrote on August 26 2009 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
  
  Thanks for the heads up! I was going to look into checking the headers to see if the default Gravatar was returned, but now I guess I don’t need to! That instantly gives the plugin a lot more scope.
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Alex wrote on August 27 2009 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

A new update is available to download. Thanks again go to Otto, for bringing the Gravatar 404 to my attention, allowing the plugin to now show a message only if no user Gravatar is returned.
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baron wrote on August 27 2009 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

Works great, thank you
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HR wrote on February 7 2010 at 7:09 pm | Permalink

i cant make it work im using theme my login plugin can some figure it out please .. i really like this plugin to show up in my registration form

thanks