By phaedral on

Greetings,

My users want avatars for their blog and forum posts. I've found the Avatar Blocks module, but this seems to presuppose the existence of something else. While I like the features of Avatar Blocks and plan to add it, I'm still unclear what gives the basid feature of having a little graphic next to each occurrence of a user's name.

Heck, I'm not even sure I'm asking this well. I'm wide open to steering here, and appreciate any help y'all can give.

Peace,

rl

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vm’s picture

vm commented

go to administer -> user settings
scroll to bottom of form
find: picture support and enable

go to administer -> themes -> configuration tab
enable user pictures in the theme

users can now upload avatars using their profile.

dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

Hi Robert, welcome to Drupal :)

You mentioned the Avatar Blocks module, however that module is not upgraded for use on versions of Drupal past version 5.x. You won't be able to use it on a Drupal 6 site unless/until it is upgraded. However, it is not really the best solution as of Drupal 6 anymore, since one of the most powerful/useful modules in Drupal, Views (used on almost every Drupal site everywhere), can pretty much replace its functionality as of Drupal 6. CCK and Views are two of the best and most powerful modules in Drupal and well-worth learning all about. I have a guide-in-progress about CCK and Views (there's also plenty more info, check google). If you want to get on the "fast track" (e.g. time deadline) then consider the video courses from Lullabot.

The way in general in Drupal to enable Avatars (Drupal calls them "user pictures") throughout the site is the "Picture support" setting at admin/user/settings
Once you enable/configure this setting, users will be able to upload their own avatar... and so long as the theme you're using has remembered to include them, avatars will then show up in the appropriate pages throughout the site. If not, at least one place to check is the "User pictures in posts" and "User pictures in comments" options at admin/build/themes/settings (general/overall settings) or also the same settings on the specific configuration page of your theme. You might also like to add Avatar Selection module, which I'm a big fan of.

Also, I noticed you've marked this post as Drupal 7, so I wanted to make sure you are using Drupal 6. Drupal 7 is not officially released and is not at all stable - it is only for core developers who are in the process of developing it right now. You should only use Drupal 6 now. I'd advise you not to use Drupal 5 if the reason is over a module not being upgraded (e.g. Avatar Blocks), since Drupal 6 has been out for over a year now, and if a module is not upgraded yet, it likely never will be (and Drupal 5 will no longer be supported in under 1 year from now).

Again, welcome!

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phaedral commented

VeryMisunderstood and Keyz,

Thanks both. Between the two of you I got this running.

Keyz, yeah, it's Drupal 6; I goofed on the selector box when starting this inquriy.

Peace.

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moriator commented

It's very helpful to me. Thanks so much! :)

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Hipster commented

Since there is no Avatar block module, do you know if there is a tutorial on how to create avatars for comments, postings or for avatar blocks. Thank you for your help.