The guys that develop the Tarski WordPress theme released 2.4 RC1 today. I already have it running on my site and am enjoying some of the new features.
One problem I was having prior to and after the upgrade to Tarski 2.4 was my gravatar wasn’t showing up on comments I made. Granted, this isn’t a particularly popular destination on the internets but there are a couple of comments here and there. What I’ve been able to deduce was going on is that my comments had the wrong email address attached. I was using a different email account as my admin email for a while. Switching it over to the email address I have registered at Gravatar.com cleared up the problem for new comments but the old comments still refused to show my gravatar.
Some more poking around led me to realize that WordPress hadn’t switched over the email address assigned to my old comments to my gravatar-friendly account. A quick trip through the comment edit menu and everything is right in my blog once again.
An interesting note is that in the default WordPress theme, I didn’t have any problems and all of my gravatars showed up without having to edit anything. Perhaps there is some sort of unforeseen interaction between Tarski 2.4RC1 and WordPress 2.7RC1.
An interesting but longstanding issue relates to the Tarski theme displaying “no comments” when the comments count is zero. Do visitors think comments are closed? I decided to write a post about it. Hope it helps!