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  • Keir 3 posts 73 karma points
    Feb 02, 2016 @ 11:47
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    Get avatar of publisher

    Hi there, I'm in the process of creating a bespoke blog for our site, I want to call the avatar image of the user who posted the blog article.

    I can call the publishing date and the user like this:

    Published at @CurrentPage.UpdateDate.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") by @CurrentPage.writerName

    Is there a way to call the avatar of the user in a similar fashion?

    Thanks.

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  • Dan Diplo 1554 posts 6205 karma points MVP 6x c-trib
    Feb 02, 2016 @ 12:42
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    I don't believe the avatar is exposed as a property of a published page. The best you can get from this is the ID of the person who created (or edited) the page. But from the ID you can then get a reference to the User. Something like:

    var user = UmbracoContext.Current.Application.Services.UserService.GetUserById(Model.Content.CreatorId);
string email = user.Email;

    I believe Umbraco just uses Gravatar for images, so all you need is to create a hash of the email address and call their simple API. There's an example of how to do this below:

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3561477/asp-net-mvc-helper-for-accessing-gravatar-images

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  • Keir 3 posts 73 karma points
    Feb 02, 2016 @ 14:06
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    Ah that's unfortunate, thanks for your prompt response!

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