After stumbling upon Gravatar, a site serving your avatar globally, I looked for an easy way to add this functionality to Joomla!. After ditching Gravatar\/Avatar for needing some other plugin to work in the first place, I installed gAvatar.<\/p>\n
This plugin worked without dependencies and gAvatar is dead simple to set up. Just enable the plugin, change the rendering mode and you are done.<\/p>\n
The only thing that can go wrong (and did for me) was the fact that you can choose for a floating avatar (which ended up floating in the text), a table avatar (using the default Joomla header style – which this site doesn’t use) or advanced templating.<\/p>\n
That last option seemed like a good solution except that nowhere was described what it did or how it worked. A quick dive in the source showed me everything I needed to know: gAvatar adds a ‘avatar’ parameter to the article object. To use it, find the classes generating the article layouts and modify those.<\/p>\n
To find those class files, I used the following in the template folder:<\/p>\n
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