How to Add Gravatar Hovercards to WordPress Blog

Last week WordPress has released “Gravatar Hovercards” to wordpress.com site. Do you want to add the same to wordpress.org site?

Option-1 – Original method

Add below line to your theme’s functions.php file and you are done.

wp_enqueue_script( 'gprofiles', 'https://s.gravatar.com/js/gprofiles.js', array( 'jquery' ), 'e', true );

OR create hovercards.php file and put it in plugin directory and active from admin panel:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Gravatar Hovercards
*/

function gravatar_hovercards_jquery() {
    wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'gravatar_hovercards_jquery');

function gravatar_hovercards() {
    echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s.gravatar.com/js/gprofiles.js"></script>';
}
add_action('wp_footer','gravatar_hovercards');
?>

I hope this will work for you.

Option-2 Jetpack way

• Go to Jetpack
• Settings
• Discussion Tab

Next step is to enable the same setting from:

• Go to Settings left panel option
• Click on Discussion
• Select checkbox for View people's profiles when you mouse over their Gravatars.

Let me know what you think of using Jetpack Hovercard. On Crunchify we have disabled this option as I personally don’t think that adds more value to my readers.