I’ve since transitioned to Thesis, but this tutorial works well.
Despite the growing internet presence of Chris Pearson’s Thesis, his older themes still remain popular, including the Cutline theme which I’ve modified for this blog.
I recently decided to add gravatars to my theme, so I launched a search for anyone’s tips on best positioning of the gravatar code within Cutline. Since I didn’t find anything, I did it on my own–but I thought I’d share with you exactly which code to put where to get gravatars on Cutline positioned like mine. As a bonus, a small section at the bottom shows you how to create a add a custom default gravatar for your site. You’ll see that commenters without gravatars get a ghosted black-and-white BC avatar.