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With the flurry of recent development, b2evolution has quickly caught up to more popular blogging platforms such as WordPress. The only thing we still seem to be lagging behind in is the number of plugins and themes. Here are the essential I’ve seen elsewhere that would be great for evo, if they already exist please do let me know:
CommentLuv
When somebody leaves a comment on a CommentLuv blog, the plugin finds their blog’s RSS feed and links to that person’s latest post. Simple, but it’s spread like wildfire because it adds incentive for comments and helps to build community.
Stripe Ad
The stripe ad is the newest ad craze, mainly because it looks a little different. Shouldn’t be too hard to implement, but nice all the same.
Flickr Photo Dropper
Easily add creative commons photos to your post, what more can I say?
Gravatars
These are avatars that look the same everywhere, and they’re very good for comments and for showing latest visitors. There may already be a plugin for this that I have missed, so if you could direct me to it that would be awesome.
UPDATE:
Hari pointed me to the gravatar code for b2evolution. Here’s what needs to be done:
Place the _item_comment.inc.php file inside your skin folder and customize it:
Find this line
PHP:
switch( $Comment->get( 'type' ) ) | |
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{ | |
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case 'comment': // Display a comment: | |
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if( empty($Comment->ID) ) | |
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{ // PREVIEW comment | |
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echo T_('PREVIEW Comment from:').' '; | |
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} | |
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else | |
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{ |
And add this code anywhere inside the case ‘comment’:
PHP:
// GRAVATAR addition | |
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$grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=" . md5 ($Comment->author_email) . "&default=" . urlencode ("http://yourblogurl.com/rsc/img/blank.gif") . "&size=36"; | |
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echo '<img style="float:right;margin:3px" src="'.$grav_url. '" alt="Gravatar" />'; | |
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// END GRAVATAR addition |
Replace the yourblogurl.com with your own blog url.
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On an unrelated note, your Digg button is slowly down page loads seriously.I suggest using text links to sumbit the post rather than using their widget.
Thanks for catching that Hari, I'll fix it later today. 
I have a preliminar version of Fickr Photo Dropper working in b2evo. Do you mind to test? (If yes, send the 'yes' by e-mail ;) )
Thank you!the gravatar code for b2evolution works!
You can try: http://b2evolution.waltercruz.com/tag/photo+dropper: 
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