July 9, 2009 in Announcement, Features by kt
Dear friends,
Right now we are in the process of upgrading the site to include “Buddy Press” (a social network plugin) into ikazoku. In additional, we have revised our plugin managements to make it more compatible. In this post, I will address two significant adjustments you might encounter due to the upgrade: first, “Navigation Bar” and second, sidebar widgets.
The navigation bar at ikazoku is changed to increase the compatibility issues with the newly added plugin (Buddy Press).
My Account tab now includes shortcut to the social network site. The original shortcut to Blog Reader under this menu has been removed. You may access the Blog Reader through the back-end and it’s located under the “Dashboard” menu. Here is the screen shot.
My Blogs tab lists the shortcuts to access your blog both the front-end (blog) and back-end (admin panel). Here is a screen shots.
To access your blog simply click on your blog name (i.e. click the iKazoku 家族). To access the admin panel, you will need to visit one level down by mouse over the desired blog, and click on the Dashboard tab.
Sidebar widgets: You sidebar widgets might have been effected. Please re-enable them. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Suggestions and comments are welcome.
Tags: buddy press, Update
June 10, 2009 in Announcement by Nikiski
Since the upgrade to 2.7 there have been minor incompatibility issues with iKazoku’s Friend List application, namely the bug where after clicking a few links in the Friend List page will give a 500 error. The bug is fixed as of today.
Some typos are also fixed. Enjoy 
April 27, 2009 in Announcement by kt
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like posting comments at any Gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. It’s a service provided by gravatar.com. At iKazoku.com, we’ll utilized the advantage of the Gravatar support. Here’s how gravatars work….
A commenter creates an image suitable for a gravatar and uploads it to his account on gravatar.com. The gravatar is rated using pretty much the same ratings as the movie industry: G, PG, R, and X. These ratings are used by bloggers to set limits on the kinds of gravatars that appear on their sites — a gravatar with a G rating will appear everywhere while a gravatar with an X rating may not appear on many blogs at all.
When a commenter submits a comment, the blog’s gravatar engine takes the commenter’s e-mail address (submitted in the comment form) and attempts to find a match at gravatar.com. If it finds a match, it displays the corresponding image. (The e-mail address is not used anywhere in the underlying page code.) If there’s no image on file, the blog software either displays nothing or displays a default image chosen by the blogger.
To start using Gravatar, you need to sign up for an account at Gravatar.com with your email addressed that you used at iKazoku.com. Author profile widget will now uses your image from Gravatar instead of the local avatar. And we depreciate the local avatar support and apologize for any inconviences.
http://www.understandingwordpress.com/blog/how-does-a-gravatar-work.html
Tags: avatar, Gravatar
