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Hi there,

As Ive said in previous posts, i’m new to EE, but I’m getting there in building my first site. Ironing out a few issues at the moment.

One being, that I have comments enabled for news items. When a comment is posted, it lists the author, their avatar, and their comment.
My problem seems to be that the avatar on shows up when that user is logged in.

If I’m logged out I cannot see the avatar.

Here is what I have at the moment (I’m using CE Image and Time ago plugins)

<ul class="comments-list">
       {exp:comment:entries channel="news"}
       {exp:member:custom_profile_data}
        <li>{if avatar_filename == ''} 
        /-/images/img04.jpg 
        {/if} 
        {if avatar}
         {exp:ce_img:single src="{avatar_url}" width="32" height="32" alt="{screen_name}'s avatar" class="avatar" rounded_corners="all,2" bg_color="f9f9f9"}
         {/if}
         {/exp:member:custom_profile_data}
         <div class="comment-holder">
          <span class="author"><a href="http://{url}">{name}</a> wrote</span>
          {comment}
          <div class="report-holder">
           <ul class="report">
            <li>{exp:time_ago revert_to_date_format="%d %F %Y"}{comment_date}{/exp:time_ago}</li>
            <li><a href="#">Report ?</a></li>
           </ul>
          </div><!-- div class report-holder ends  -->
         </div><!-- div class comment-holder ends  -->
        </li>
        {/exp:comment:entries}

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi shorn,

Sorry to see you are having this trouble. You are wrapping your comment with this tag:  {exp:member:custom_profile_data} but that tag will only display info for the currently logged in member or a specific member provided you pass the member_id=”” parameter.

If you look at the docs on the comment module:

All custom member profile fields can be accessed using the “short name” of the field

What I suggest is removing {exp:member:custom_profile_data} and the closing tag {/exp:member:custom_profile_data} and your avatars should work as expected.

Sean

Yep, that did it! Thanks!

Hello shorn,

I am happy to hear Sean’s directions got you back in business.

Let us know if there is anything else you need!

Cheers,