Tag: avatar

adding your picture to your comment

I’ve mentioned this before, but it was many moons ago, so here’s a reminder for those who may not know or have forgotten.  If you want to have a custom picture (avatar) next to your name when you leave a comment, you just have to follow these instructions.  It’s really easy, and it makes the site more enjoyable for everyone.  Of course, it’s optional, but why would you not want to?  You can upload any picture you want.  (Just keep it clean.)

This has been a public service announcement from Buffet o’ Blog.  Thank you, drive thru…

how to get your own avatar

You may notice that I enlarged the avatars (pictures) in the Recent Comments in the sidebar.  The gravatar.com site is finally working correctly, so pictures are now showing up for your ID.  The idea of global avatars is really neat, and I’m glad that feature is available in WordPress.

Do you want your own?  It’s really simple.  Just go to gravatar.com, create an account, and upload a picture to go with your e-mail address.  Then when you write a comment using that e-mail address on a WordPress blog (or possibly others, too), the image shows up next to your name, if they have avatars enabled.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I had to use all lowercase when putting my e-mail address in the comment form.  Perhaps that will get fixed, but try doing that if you’re having any issues with it not showing up.