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Avatar’ed Themes

As an update to Matt’s prior avatar introduction announcement, I’ve now put avatars into all of the themes.

Remember, if you run into any problems with the new avatars or if there are any places where we happened to miss placing them, don’t hesitate to let us know. But for now, enjoy them!

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by Bryan

Posted: Monday, September 4th, 2006 at 12:47 am. Filed in Features, Themes, WordPress.com.

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  1. sheida
    Sep 4th at 1:02 am

    Great Job,
    I like them a lot

  2. Linkey
    Sep 4th at 1:10 am

    Every day it’s better :D Good Job guys!

  3. Greg Brown
    Sep 4th at 2:06 am

    Thanks. They look great!

  4. darki
    Sep 4th at 2:19 am

    wordpress is workexpress :) we like it. thkz.

  5. friedreich rommel delos santos
    Sep 4th at 2:30 am

    you know what would be cool? if we can tag other wp users as friends and show there pictures when we link them in our wp sites. :D

  6. mksucks
    Sep 4th at 2:45 am

    Thank you!

  7. bluesaze
    Sep 4th at 2:48 am

    This is great …. Love what you guys have done. Though I wish you guys would change the default Icon.

  8. the forester
    Sep 4th at 2:57 am

    Very cool. Thank you!

  9. Bryan
    Sep 4th at 3:03 am

    bluesaze: I’m workin’ on that one. ;)

  10. The Eternal Wanderer
    Sep 4th at 3:10 am

    Love ‘em!

    Thanks very much!

  11. avuee
    Sep 4th at 3:11 am

    Could the avatar feature work for non-wordpress bloggers? I mean, if someone lets say from I don’t know,…um 9rules.com responds to an entry of mine, could they have their own gravatar that would appear on my site? Or is this feature only working wordpress to wordpress users?

  12. Confused
    Sep 4th at 3:14 am

    Thanks a lot. A great feature.

  13. Bryan
    Sep 4th at 3:21 am

    avuee: Unfortunately, the current avatar system is strapped to your WordPress.com account. I could see some type of gravatar/wpavatar hybrid going on, but I wouldn’t know where to start with that. For now, in order to get an avatar to show, they must have an account here at WP.com.

  14. bluesaze
    Sep 4th at 3:47 am

    Hey cool … You guys respond really fast … I like avuee’s Idea … When you guys released Avatars I had intitially suggested using Gavtars. But Like Matt pointed out it might be taking to much resources from a free service. A hybrid system where the wordpress avatars are shown by default or else gavtars would been show seems like a good idea.

  15. Fred.cpp
    Sep 4th at 4:04 am

    Great! a lovely feature. Thanks a lot:D

  16. Stephen
    Sep 4th at 4:06 am

    I love how you guys are turning WP into more of a communal blogging service. I think you should add a blog-subscriber sort of thing. Something like the Tag Surfer, but rather than subscribing to tags, you subscribe to other WP.com blogs.

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  18. Righteously Insane™
    Sep 4th at 5:04 am

    Excellent~! Thank you sooo much for this additional service. Now all we need are surveys. Heheheh~! Cheers!

  19. Matt
    Sep 4th at 5:06 am

    Nice work.

  20. oboa
    Sep 4th at 5:10 am

    Brilliant. I am happy to have this new feature without plug-in.
    Many thanks for the effort.

  21. chacko
    Sep 4th at 6:30 am

    GREAT!!

  22. Davies Lim
    Sep 4th at 6:33 am

    Very nice, Excellent work WordPress!! ~*~

  23. chioko
    Sep 4th at 6:35 am

    awesomeness ^^ XD XD XD yay

  24. Karen
    Sep 4th at 7:09 am

    thanks :) !

  25. E@zyVG
    Sep 4th at 7:34 am

    Nice lil feature. Cool and tnx.

  26. Thomas
    Sep 4th at 8:39 am

    I’ll give it a try!

  27. elvenbyte
    Sep 4th at 8:51 am

    Will be any help for knowing its use?

  28. Curmudgeonly Yours
    Sep 4th at 9:42 am

    Nice.

  29. Marco mkc Costanzo
    Sep 4th at 10:50 am

    This is really Kaizen…
    Constant and continuos improvement…
    ] marcomkc [

  30. KesheR
    Sep 4th at 11:05 am

    Cool

  31. bizwriter
    Sep 4th at 11:18 am

    If I get that avatar’ed themes post right, avatars should be showing alongside comments. Well, in my blog at least, they don’t. Am I missing something here?

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  33. royalflare
    Sep 4th at 11:41 am

    thanks for the avatars!
    wordpress really rocks!

  34. januarys
    Sep 4th at 11:42 am

    Pleasantly surprised. Thank you sweetheart, I love being able to show a sloth face to anyone and everyone. I mean look at it now, it’s cheering you up isn’t it. M hm.

  35. blayde
    Sep 4th at 1:29 pm

    Nice new feature, thanks for it…

  36. ladyvera
    Sep 4th at 1:31 pm

    Thanks a lot! Congratulations for this good job!

  37. K
    Sep 4th at 1:42 pm

    It adds life to my comment sections. It looks cool to any themes. Thanks for this feature.

  38. ClioCup
    Sep 4th at 1:58 pm

    Really nice feature. you guys rock’s

  39. phrostypoison
    Sep 4th at 2:05 pm

    I like avuee’s idea.

  40. taraden
    Sep 4th at 2:14 pm

    Thanks!!!

  41. Galen
    Sep 4th at 2:23 pm

    Like bizwriter, the effect of including avatars in themes has not
    “dawned” on me yet but probably it will come to me evenutally. We
    can still show our avatar, wherever it may pop up, if we have one
    so it is nice that the application is expanding. Like my head? :)
    –g

  42. Guy Murray
    Sep 4th at 2:37 pm

    Outstanding

  43. [KwZ]
    Sep 4th at 2:40 pm

    Good job, I was expecting that but not so soon. You guys are really doing something cool.

  44. Fredi
    Sep 4th at 2:40 pm

    Nice!

    Could you make them be the same size in all the themes? They’re way too small in Light!!

    Thanks for this.

  45. oinky
    Sep 4th at 2:54 pm

    hi thanks wordpress for all those wonderful touch.
    just one thing though, i’m currently using Connections theme but i don’t really understand what you meant by “putting avatars into all of the themes”

  46. dusselhayvan
    Sep 4th at 3:24 pm

    fascinating, splendid, well job. thanks wp. :)

  47. EclecticGeek
    Sep 4th at 3:37 pm

    Noticed I was avatar’ed earlier with my site comments. I really like this feature. Thanks for always adding new stuff!

  48. Kayakman
    Sep 4th at 4:47 pm

    Almost everything I do on the web allows me to use my avatar. I was really happy to see wordpress offer this feature.

  49. helenl
    Sep 4th at 5:08 pm

    My avatar seems to work only when I’m signed in.

  50. aishel
    Sep 4th at 5:23 pm

    Bryan, looking good. Whatever happened with my suggestion to make the Dashboard into a menu so you can access everything with one click?

  51. missionmexicocity
    Sep 4th at 6:10 pm

    Make our avatars FAVICONS!

  52. Bryan
    Sep 4th at 6:13 pm

    aishel: It’s still here. Just need to sit down and stare at it for awhile. ;)

  53. Avatar DJ Flux
    Sep 4th at 6:14 pm

    Just to see how it looks…
    And I share oinky’s question: I don’t really understand what you meant by “putting avatars into all of the themes”
    IOW, where do they appear?

    Ignorant Flux

  54. ClioCup
    Sep 4th at 6:44 pm

    weird, i can see my avatar in every comment that i leave around wordpress. but when i comment on my blog i can’t see my avatar!!! using regulus theme

  55. Pavan
    Sep 4th at 7:35 pm

    [Matt/Bryan]: The avatar pics arent placed properly when viewed in Opera (in Linux). The pic overlaps the name and date of comment. Just thought of letting you know.

  56. Pavan
    Sep 4th at 7:37 pm

    [Matt/Bryan] One more thing, is there a way I can delete my comments from other’s blog? (as in blogger)

  57. timethief
    Sep 4th at 7:38 pm

    @Bryan
    I’ve been working the forum and haven’t had the time to check out the avatar feature on my own blogs yet. There is however a forum thread that I want to draw your attention to please take note of the second to last entry http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=3728

  58. Bryan
    Sep 4th at 8:02 pm

    Pavan: Yep, please send any display errors you see to feedback so I can keep track of them.

  59. Fábio Nogueira
    Sep 4th at 9:12 pm

    WordPress… the best!!

  60. Sue
    Sep 4th at 10:09 pm

    Happy camper here. Thank you!

  61. moranguita
    Sep 4th at 10:29 pm

    Belo trabalho :)

  62. Moey
    Sep 4th at 10:37 pm

    well, i do not think that they’re showing on my blog

  63. Brent
    Sep 5th at 12:39 am

    Nice feature.

    Good work Bryan!
    :cool:

  64. archiearchive
    Sep 5th at 1:30 am

    Great idea and well worth the effort. Thank you Bryan.
    May be worth checking its effectiveness in Quentin 0.9. It seems very small. Would it be possible to change the logo on Firefox tabs to the individual’s avatar?

  65. Josh
    Sep 5th at 1:53 am

    I’m using the Sandbox theme with custom CSS, and I’m not seeing any avatars in the comment area. Is this just a problem with Sandbox?

  66. Danny Barros
    Sep 5th at 3:00 am

    hummmmmmmmmmmmmm
    I love this idea!!!
    great!!!
    I love you … WP stat!

  67. timethief
    Sep 5th at 5:01 am

    I’m a happy camper. One of the best things about wordpress is the amazing blogging community that’s being built here and features like this are adding to the appreciation of the community experience. Thumbs up Bryan and sysadmin – you rock!

  68. Chittaranjan
    Sep 5th at 7:05 am

    Good! Thanx a ton Guyz!

    Umm…How can I see’em now?

  69. VxJasonxV
    Sep 5th at 7:24 am

    The lack of transparency is bothersome.
    Wreaks havoc on my avatar :/

  70. VxJasonxV
    Sep 5th at 8:29 am

    Ok, so about the comment that I actually meant to make here:
    I might be missing something, but:

    As an update to Matt’s prior avatar introduction announcement, I’ve now put avatars into all of the themes.

    Where?

    I’ve gone though and clicked on the links of a bunch of commenters here and gotten a pretty decently sized sampling of different themes, and I’ve not seen any avatars that I see here…

    I feel silly for asking this, but… well, maybe I should just wait until tomorrow. I have no idea what propagation is like here. Considering it’s only been an hour…
    Yeah

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  72. jennacb
    Sep 5th at 10:40 am

    Good work-thanks :-)

  73. Someone who loves dogs
    Sep 5th at 1:40 pm

    I haven’t ventured into different themes to actually check this out. But, I trust you guys! This is good, now if we can all get more themes to play with, that’ll be great. Will keep blogging … afterall, a blog is something written by someone who has nothing to say for someone who has nothing to do :) .

  74. galloway
    Sep 5th at 1:53 pm

    excellent

  75. VxJasonxV
    Sep 5th at 5:11 pm

    Oh, avatared the comments in the blogs.
    That just hit me this morning.
    *facepalms*

  76. mooth
    Sep 5th at 8:58 pm

    friedreich rommel delos santos Said:
    “you know what would be cool? if we can tag other wp users as friends and show there pictures when we link them in our wp sites.”

    I agree :D

  77. ibiog
    Sep 6th at 2:16 am

    My avatar comes up so teeny tiny when I post a comment on a blog…
    can’t even tell what it is.

  78. بهمن
    Sep 6th at 5:11 am

    Nice work Bryan ;)

  79. zenstar
    Sep 6th at 9:18 am

    it’d be nice to add an avatar pic onto the sidebar with an easy widget.
    otherwise :) nice work guys

  80. shanmg
    Sep 6th at 12:15 pm

    good….

  81. Bill
    Sep 6th at 12:45 pm

    OK, so some folks like, even love avatars. I hate ‘em :-) People who don’t have one have a big stupid looking question mark and I have to put up with a guy giving the finger on all of the comments on my blog. Not the image I was looking for. Any way to turn them off? Or maybe reinstate some themes that don’t have them?

  82. myepinoy
    Sep 6th at 4:06 pm

    Thank you so much!

  83. Matt
    Sep 6th at 11:37 pm

    If you’re not seeing the avatars show up, or if they look funny, you may need to force refresh your blog.

  84. rici
    Sep 7th at 12:38 am

    CAYOOOOO

  85. Miftach
    Sep 7th at 4:51 am

    Now ai have avatar .
    Thank’s

  86. la100rra
    Sep 7th at 8:14 am

    cool Thank you! :lol:

  87. deloco
    Sep 7th at 1:37 pm

    On my Screen the Avatars are some sort of mixed up with the text written by someone… I mean: The Pictures are in the middle of the post and not where they supposed to be (left of the text I assume?)

    Anyway, I nice Idea which gives the Blogs and Comments some sort of character…

  88. sparkyfied
    Sep 8th at 12:13 am

    Nice one guys, you rock!

  89. Stephanie
    Sep 8th at 5:37 pm

    They don’t seem to work with the theme I have? Or is it just me?

  90. Josh
    Sep 9th at 12:43 am

    I’ve yet to see any avatars on my site, which is the Sandbox theme with custom CSS applied.

    Oh well. :)

  91. Gerald G
    Sep 9th at 4:19 am

    This is cool. Thanks!

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  93. soundtrax
    Sep 9th at 6:16 pm

    COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I LOVE IT

  94. franklyfrank
    Sep 9th at 8:13 pm

    Excellent! Thanks a ton you guys

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  96. miund
    Dec 9th at 8:21 am

    Lovin the avatars, guys. Very good job!! :)

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