Using a gravatar image within author.php

multiplier
(@multiplier)

17 years, 6 months ago
I run a blog with multiple authors. Recently I added a custom “author.php” template to the site, which is supposed to include an author photo, bio and all their posts. For the photo, I figured I’d use gravatars. Here’s the code I tried:
```
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '56' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
```
Unfortunately that outputs about 10 gravatar images, one for each post I’ve made. So I added a query_posts function with “showposts=1”, and thankfully it now displays only one gravatar — but it’s the gravatar for one of my other authors, not mine!

Any obvious coding that would get this to work correctly?

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(@geoff67)

I’m having similar difficulties. When placed outside of the loop, the gravatar code returns an incorrect image, but when placed inside the loop, it attaches a gravatar to each post listed for that author.

The code below is what I originally tried, which returns the incorrect gravatar.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php
if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
$curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
else :
$curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
endif;
?>

<h2><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h2>
<span class="alignright" style="margin-left:1em;"><?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), $size = '96' ); ?></span>
<dl>
<dt>About the author</dt>
<dd><?php echo $curauth->user_description; ?></dd>
</dl>

<h4>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h4>

<ul>
<!-- The Loop -->
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
  <li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a>,
<?php the_time('d M Y'); ?> in <?php the_category('&');?>
  </li>

  <?php endwhile; else: ?>
     <p><?php _e('No posts by this author.'); ?></p>

	<?php endif; ?>
<!-- End Loop -->
</ul>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I tried $curauth->gravatar, which I suspected would not work (and didn’t). I even downloaded the Gravatar plug-in, hoping that would allow me to place the code outside of the loop; but that failed as well.

smallbizpod

(@smallbizpod)

17 years, 5 months ago

I think with a bit of scouring of these forums I’ve managed to solve this problem. I have author gravatar images outside the loop on the author.php page followed by a list of all the author’s posts by using this code:

<?php global $authordata, $curauth;
		$authordata=get_userdata(get_query_var( 'author' )); if(function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar( get_the_author_id(), 70, "#646464" ); } ?>
		<h2 class="grey"><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h2>
		<a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a>
		<p><?php echo $curauth->user_description; ?></p>

Hope that works for you too.