How to display author’s avatar

• 20 October 2010
• published in Wordpress Tips and Tricks by admin

Ever wonder how can you display the author’s avatar near the post title? You know…. Those smile faces that you see near a big title on newspaper websites.

Here is how:

First grab author’s email and the call the get_avatar function using the email, the picture size and if you need also the text for the alt tag. The code below will display the avatar (or gravatar) tied to author’s email on gravatar.com
And the code is…

$idemail=get_the_author_meta('user_email'); // grab email
 echo get_avatar($idemail, 75); // display avatar

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