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Changing the Size of the Avatar in WordPress 2.7

Peter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:45:03 +0000

The default size of an avatar is 32x32px, which I think is a bit small. Therefore, I’d like to change it to 60x60px instead. But back in the good ol’ 2.6 days, and of course also earlier, changing the size of an avatar (the little picture shown e.g. in comments) was a pain. Now, with WordPress 2.7 it’s easier than ever!

And while we’re at it, remember to get yourself a gravatar.

In your theme, open the comments.php and look for the following code:

This simple line of code has a massive amount of options available. If you want to learn more about them, head over to the WordPress Codex pages and check them out. For now, we’ll just concentrate on changing the size of the avatar.

The way we can do this, is simply by adding some text inside the function, like this:

After that… No, actually there is no after that! By doing this, the avatar’s size will be changed to 60px.

No More Invalid RSS

Peter — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:27:37 +0000

When I made this site, I spend hours figuring out why my feed wasn’t working. There are several examples in the WordPress Support Forums telling, that feeds aren’t working because of a blank line in the beginning of the feed before the XML declaration. Some feedreaders have no problem with this, but Feedburner does. And Feedburner is very important.

Well, let’s get to it! The fix was found at Wejn.org and is very simple to use. First of all, you need to download the script file, called wejnswpwhitespacefix.php and upload it to your blog’s root (in the same folder as index.php. Then, get your index.php file. It usually looks something like this:

Now, right before define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);, add include("wejnswpwhitespacefix.php");.

This will call the script, which removes every character that isn’t text before the XML declaration in the RSS files, and before the DOCTYPE declaration in the theme files.