While working on my theme, I started picking at widgets to see what I could change. I decided that I liked having a Recent Comments widget, but I didn’t like that it was so boring. I decided that I needed something extra for recent comments. I decided the Recent Comments widget needed gravatar support.

So, I wrote some code and came up with an embeded widget – one that was not selectable in the widgets menu – but I didn’t like that it would be stuck in one spot until I edited the template files and moved it. I knew it was going to iritate me one day, so I worked out a legitimate widget. One which could be selected in the widgets menu and moved from one sidebar to another, or moved to another theme if I ever changed themes.

Gravatar Enhanced Recent Comments (GERC) was born.

You can see the widget in action at the bottom right of the page. It’s the orange box!

I’m not going to publish this plugin on WordPress.org right now, but I have made it available to download.

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Full documentation on the plugin can be found here.