Gravatar Field

Display the avatar associated with a given email address. Add a personal touch to your user accounts with unique profile images.

The Gravatar custom field gives you the ability to create a unique avatar based on an email address. If a Gravatar user has set-up their Gravatar to a specific image, then that image will appear instead of the random one that gets generated for each account.

How to add a Gravatar Custom Field to Joomla! Articles

The Gravatar field provides you the way to set the pixels of the avatar as well as wheter the avatar image will have round corners.

As you can see from the screenshot above, after selecting the "ACF - Gravatar" type, the settings for this field will appear.

Let's see what each option does.

Name	Description
Name	The name will be used to identify the field. Leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value from the title.
Label	The label of the field to display.
Description	A description of the field that will be displayed in the label tooltip.
Required	Is this a mandatory field?
Default Value	Set the default value of the field
Pixels	Enter the avatar size in pixels. Example: 100.
Rounded Avatar	Select whether the avatar will have rounded corners.

Usage

Once you are in your Article's Edit screen, choose the "Fields" Tab to see the Gravatar custom field as you can see in the screenshot below.

In the input field, you enter an email address that will fetch it's gravatar.

Frontend Display

Take a look at the screenshot below to see how it could be displayed in your frontend.

How to display the author's Gravatar based on their email address

Using the ACF - Gravatar field, you can automatically display the author's Gravatar based on their email address.

To do this, we'll need to use the Smile Pack Joomla extension. This extension provides a module collection, and a plethora of helpful Smart Tags that we can use to display dynamic pieces of information on our Joomla site, including grabbing the current article's author email and use it to display their Gravatar on the article.

Once we've installed Smile Pack, we can then create an ACF - Gravatar custom field and under Default Value, set it to: [email protected]

Each article will automatically display the author's Gravatar based on their email address.