[wp-hackers] Gravatar + Feed integration for avatars on Planets

[Otto]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:40 +1000, Ryan McCue wrote:
>> The problem is that isn't in the Atom or RSS standards, and would have
>> to be implemented in a WP namespace. That would inevitably cause more
>> work, especially if the WP developers ever actually write a DTD for the
>> namespace.
>
> Like I just discovered from the Atom and RSS links you sent, there is
> actually provision for a "blog logo" in both standards, which WordPress
> would set to the Gravatar URL of the blog admin (I suppose from the
> "admin_email" field in wp_options).

In Atom, I'd recommend using the <icon> instead of the <logo>.

For RSS, use the <image> tag.

-Otto