New: Avatars for members

Ok because of public beta 2 of Expression Engine, we can now have avatars for members! Here’s how to set it up:

1. After you are logged in, click on profile in the upper right portion of the menu.

2. Click on “Edit your profile”. You can probably fill in anything else you’d like others to see as well.

3. In the bottom box, “Avatar URL” put the URL to the image you woul like to use as your avatar.

Special notes: You should be using a 50×50 image. The end result is shown restricted to 50×50, so please try to resize it so that it looks right and good. If you put in a URL to a gigantic image, causing slow downs, I’ll ask you to change it. If I get no results from that I’ll have to take it out. :( I wouldn’t like to do that though.

Where does it show? This avatar will show up in your comments. You can view any comments now, and you’ll see my avatar. Any questions, let me know!

 

ExpressionEngine PB2 Released!

In case you didn’t already know, pMachine has just released the Public Beta 2 of ExpressionEngine. There have been quite a bit new features added (from changelog.txt):

- Search module, with simple and advanced search forms

- Email module with general contact form and tell-a-friend form

- Pagination is now available for weblog entries and comments, either as simple “next/previous” links or full pagination.

- Pagination between fields is now supported.

- PHP can now be parsed either before or after the template is rendered.

- Related Entries tag.

- Nested conditionals are now allowed.

- Ping pMachine feature added.

- Added File Browser to image upload pop-up page

- Improved referrer module with blacklisting.

- Comment moderation added.

- Improved DB caching so that even dynamic queries will now be cached.

- Comments and trackbacks can be combined on the same page

- You can now choose between dashes and underscores for URL title

- Email encoding tag for templates

- You can now have multiple entries with the same title. URL title, however, must be unique

Also, custom member fields are now rendered within comments. Sounds like an opportunity for member avatars! :) (more on this later)