Most of the commenters at my WordPress blog do not have a Gravatar account. Hence the comment section is almost always filled with the same old mystery man avatars.
I am looking for custom gravatar generators for commenters without their own avatar. So far I have only found Identicons, MonsterIDâs, and Wavatars. I find some of the avatars generated by these engines to be these ugly, scary and OTT. Also these do not blend with the blog theme and stick out like a sore thumb.
Can some one point me to a avatar generator that can generate nice looking avatars?
It depends on what you call “nice” of course – it’s hard to create something meaningful with an algorithm.
Someone once created a unicorn-generator, which was used on April 1, 2010 all over Stack Overflow. Your unicorn looks like this:
The only other one supported by Gravatar is the retro generator. This is built into newer versions of WP, just select it in Settings->Discussion.
Drop this code in your function.php
Replace url with your custom avatar url. Then go into Settings > Discussion and here you can select your custom avatar. For more detail (screenshots & video) take a look on this link