I prefer blog related site links, in order to make it a larger community.

Make Sense?

I like the plugin, and it is the only one that lets you use custom avatars for your site, unfortunately.

You can make your own. There’s a link on the top left sidebar. ‘Make your own avatar’.
You just follow the instructions to a tee and you’ll get the one you want.

At the author’s website, BTW, there are posts on his blog as recent as 8/31/2007 so you should still drop him a line and tell him about the + email bug. I’m guessing he’ll want to know about it so he can issue a patch.

After looking over the code and the fact that I didn’t see any licensing I’m going to pass on messing with this any further. Without saying any more, let’s just chalk it up to professional courtesy.

If this were my plugin or was a plugin that I wanted to use, I’d definitely want to know about this, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d find the plugin author will be interested in hearing about this issue.

Best of luck

But maybe you should specifically spell out what types of businesses you mean. To me, a business is a business. Just because a real estate agent leaves a comment on my blog as long as his/her comment is relative I don’t really care. To each his own

If you are going to pick and choose what types of businesses can leave their signatures may I respectfully suggest that it’s going to be very confusing for readers to follow? You’re going to catch some people in there like me who just say screw it and put nothing there — or don’t leave any comments at all.

Question on your installation of Comvatars. Did you install the gravatar and favatar stuff too, or just the comvatar plugin by itself. See instructions:

* optional: the Comvatars Avatar Pool (later more)
* optional: the Comvatars localization files (later more)
* optional: the Favatars 2 plugin by Jeff Minard & Co
* optional: the Gravatars 2.6 plugin by Skippy

It is optional to include those, that’s why I’m asking.

I’m testing my gravatar against your install, which should partly answer this question with this comment.

I’m referring to Hotels and Real Estate links. Plus spam.

Thanks.

Tell you what, you can drop the plugin code to me via email (the one here) or point me to where the plugin is located to download (if it’s still available).

Then I can fix this issue for you really quick and send the file back with the line(s) of code I modified. It’s just a regular expression issue. I’ve seen it in a lot of email validation code out there, unfortunately

I’ve been doing PHP programming professionally since 1999, just FYI so you don’t think I’m just some stranger wanting to hack code running on your site. I also have written a few wordpress plugins (all GPL licensed) which you could find by simply Googling my name and Wordpress if you are looking for additional credentials/background.

This is just an offer to fix something with no strings attached. Not looking for or expecting anything in return.

(well, except for not being labeled a “stranger” next to my name maybe)

Interesting thing about the + in e-mail thing.
I doubt that the author still exists as this is an old plug-in. sorry.