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Posted by:
Antonio Chagoury
6/14/2008 10:53 PM
Identification Icons
Identification icons are quickly becoming a popular way for bloggers to encourage responsible use of blog comments. A variety of solutions are available, all of which aim to provide useful benefits to the blog reader.
Identification icons allow blog readers to personalize their posts just like a forum avatar. The additional personalization may encourage responsible posting as well as increased commenting and discussion. Identification icons prevent users from impersonating one another, leading to more responsible posting. They also may prevent flaming, since a user tied to an identification icon will have to take additional steps to obfuscate their identity.
Version 3.4.1 of the Blog module supports all popular identification options available today:
- Gravatar
- Identicon
- Wavicon
- MonsterID
Gravatar, or Globally Recognized Avatar, provides an easy service that allows users to upload an image avatar that follows them from site to site. This simple solution ties the image to an email address, providing a very easy way for blog software to retrieve the image.
Identicons, Wavicons, and MonsterIDs are automatically generated images that can be used in place of a Gravatar in the event that the user does not want to create one. These images are generated by a hash of the user's email address (or IP address, in the event that the user chooses not to enter an email address).
 One feature that may be unique to DotNetNuke is the ability for the user to instantly preview their image in the comments section before submitting their comments. As soon as the user enters their email address and tabs out of the email field, their Gravatar (or other icon) will automatically display in a preview area. As far as we know, this preview capability doesn't exist in any other blogging platform.
Other Comments Changes
We've included a few other improvements to the comments area as well:
- Users can now enter a website address with their comment. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the blog owner
- Blog owner can show or suppress unique comment titles
- Blog owner's comments have a unique CSS tag, enabling them to stand out from other comments
Many thanks to Rip Rowan and Don Worthley for this great new feature.
9 comment(s) so far...
Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Antonio, this is awesome. I hope this will find a way into core some day, as I would appreciate gravatars everywhere: Userprofile, Forum, ...
By cshark on
6/16/2008 5:12 AM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Antonio - I really like where the team is taking the blog module. Before i would never consider using it - but these last few releases and the upcoming features make it one of the mode valuable modules for DNN.
One thing to consider for things like avatars is that many DNN Admin already use some kind of membership profile modules for social networking sites. Many of these support URLs to user uploadable avatars which can be used around the site. For example I use Smart Thinker's profile for membership and avatars - but can display a member's avatar (that links to their profile) on Active Forum posts, Ventiran News Articles, BizModules Videos, etc. All of these use a templating model that allows my to insert a url to an image and the module replaces the key value [USERID] to display the correct avatar and link.
I'm sure Cambrian has something planned for core profiles - but it would terrific to see this concept supported at some basic level in blogs. Perhaps an option under "custom avatar" to enter a url with a token that is replaced at runtime showing the correct avatar:
http://www.mydnnsite/desktopmodules/thridpartyuserprofiles/pics/[USERID]. Adding a link back to the member profile would only make this stronger.
Again - thanks for the great work on blogs. It's terrific to see this kind of energy and quality on a core module.
By Airstream345 on
6/17/2008 6:13 AM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Kudos team! This is great stuff. I'll echo what Airstream365 said; in the past, the Blog Module had so much potential but was lacking in some features that required us to integrate dotText/subText for our community. However, functionality like this makes this a very cool solution and very viable for our primary blogging! Keep up the great work - it is VERY much appreciated!
By jbrowning on
6/24/2008 8:34 AM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
where i can dowload...?
By linen on
7/3/2008 1:28 PM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
I feel like I am watching a late night commercial for some "As Seen on TV" product. "But wait, there's more!" "And if you order now..." I cannot believe all of this is coming in the next release. I am emotionally exhausted now after reading these three blog entries about *ahem* blogs. I cannot wait!
By hismightiness on
7/3/2008 1:28 PM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Nice progress. I love it!
Two question:
1 - is it possible to specify the avatar to come from the portal (forum or profile)?
2 - is it planned in a near future to add the ability to assign multiple author to a blog?
Continue the great work.
Thank you.
By Fabrice on
10/29/2008 11:21 AM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Hi Guys
Please could the next release of the blog have the functionality that ONE USER can have many blogs because i would like to pop seperate blogs on seperate pages. i.e a NEWS BLOG, EVENTS BLOG etc. at the moment one user can only have one blog. with some children blogs. but these children blogs cannot appear as SINGLE blogs on different pages.
Get back to my if i'm mistake please.
Thanks again
W
By Wesleyg007 on
4/26/2009 7:53 AM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
Hi Wesleyg007,
Could you find a way to isolate a child blog? I would like to have two different children blogs in seperate module on the same page: One in the content pane, the second in the right pane. The possibilty to also have a apge showing just a child blog would also be of great use.
Nat
By communauto on
1/7/2010 1:14 PM
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Re: Upcoming Blog Features Part 3: Comments, Gravatars, and more!
I repeatedly received error messages with this update stating that my device was low on memory (which it wasn’t) and that it could not access my photos (for reasons I cannot fathom since I could still locate them within the app, just not load them). Also, once in a new post screen it would not let me back out and I would have to do a battery pull just to exit the program. I deleted the app, then reinstalled it hoping for better results but got none. Alas, I am now without a working WordPress App for Blackberry… Hope this is constructive.
By resume on
4/23/2010 8:27 AM
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