Gravatar filter for Jekyll
My blog is powered by Jekyll and I wanted to display gravatars on comments and for post author. The simplest way was to write a liquid filter:
require 'digest/md5'
module Jekyll
module GravatarFilter
def to_gravatar(input)
email_address = input.downcase.strip
hash = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(email_address)
"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/#{hash}"
end
end
end
Liquid::Template.register_filter(Jekyll::GravatarFilter)
The only thing it does is generate the basic gravatar URL:
- with this input:
{{ 'user@example.com' | to_gravatar }}
- the filter will output:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8ab058066d75ea5b7e613094a7676d82
The gravatar URL accept extra arguments like setting the image size and default image:
<img src="{{ comment.email | to_gravatar }}?s=40&d=mm" />
See the gravatar filter on github.
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