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A Typical Blogger’s Annoyances

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14 Nov Posted by FaS in Blog, How To, Main Feature, Very Helpful, rant, wtf | 29 comments
A Typical Blogger’s Annoyances

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I don’t  plan to make this post super long like I usually try to, but I just had to get a couple things off my chest.

1. What the hell’s with the gallery function in WordPress??? Are they deliberately slow…or do they like torturing bloggers to group every single photo uploaded that day for every gallery they make? I mean, just maybe, there might be a small chance bloggers want to pick which images to group instead of spending about 15 minutes looking at other peoples posts about how to fix this annoying-ass problem. What I found was TOO long to try to shorten. You’ll have to check it out @ The Code Dojo.

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2. What the hell’s up with default gravatars????????? That’s almost as annoying as the first question! Comments are vital for a blogger. It’s like our life-force. Comments keep me going and give me encouragement to come up with better, more thorough posts for people who think about the things I think about. Why insult the author and commentor with a stupid stick figure monster thingy??? WHO THE HELL CAME UP WITH THAT???? You know HOW LONG I spent trying to fix this???? About 35 minutes and didn’t really end up any better than I did. Though I do think I might have found something, courtesy of Outspoken Media.

Apparently, one of the solutions is by editing the functions.php part of your theme by doing the following:

Regular Themes Via Functions.php

Note that this code does not require you to edit your blog theme files, so if you change themes later, the code should still work providing the theme supports it. However, you will be editing core WordPress files, so a word of caution. Open your functions.php file (this is NOT Thesis instructions, see further down in the post for those) and add the following code:

add_filter( ‘avatar_defaults’, ‘custom_gravatar’ );

function custom_gravatar ($avatar_defaults) {
$myavatar = get_bloginfo(’template_directory’) . ‘http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/images/YOUR-CUSTOM-GRAPHIC-HERE.jpg’;
$avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = ‘NAME-YOU-GIVE-YOUR-AVATAR’;
return $avatar_defaults;
}

Upload the edited functions.php file and add the graphic you named in your code to the /images/ folder on your root domain. Next, head to your wp-admin panel and click on Settings > Discussion and click the radio button next to the custom default Gravatar you just added.

While this way of adding a custom Gravatar prevents you from having to re-add the code to new themes should you change your current one, you are editing a core WordPress file and will need to re-add the code whenever you do a WordPress update.

I’m sorry if I’m the only one who thinks it’s appropriate to have appropriate default avatars be an anime avatar instead of some Dr. Seuss shit gone bad. Hell, I don’t even like Dr. Seuss. Whatever, I’m over it. Not really, but you know what I mean.

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About FaS

Sup guys! If you don't already know, I'm the webmaster of FinallyAnime! and love writing about interesting topics, finding insane ecchi, and that sort of thing. Follow our Twitter! We can ALWAYS use more writers, so don't be afraid to join!

 

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