Avatars Everywhere
A few quick avatar updates.
I added avatars to the main WP.com blog, so you can see who’s writing all this nonsense.
There are now avatars on tag pages for people who have them. If you have an avatar you will now probably get more traffic from tag pages, since the folks with the pictures by their titles tend to stand out a lot more.
You probably noticed there are avatars on the front page too, itty-bitty ones by the top posts. We’re making this a bit bigger in the next day or two, we’re not happy with the design yet.
Finally we put a little reminder in the dashboard on where and how to upload an avatar if you haven’t yet. We already have avatars in comments and on the forums, and it’s been so nice to put a face with a name and comment, it really humanizes the medium.
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Nice.. I love avatars..!!!
WordPress Rocks..!!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Thanks man! The WordPress people rock !
October 20th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Yay!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Any possibility that Avatars could be used on the main blog page?
October 20th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for all the hard work you all do to keep blogging human. Its refreshing. I was wondering if you could maybe do an avatar widget, just so we can show off our pretty faces on our blogs… that is, if we have pretty faces to show off.
Thanks again.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
“. . . it’s been so nice to put a face with a name and comment, it really humanizes the medium.”
Unless your avatar isn’t a human.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Axe likes pics,even if they are itty-bitty.:)
October 20th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
It will be fun to have, “turn off” or “dont show” avatar, so people with extra slow dialup connection dont get depressed.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
nice to see!
October 20th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
woohoo, avatars!
thanks Matt!
October 20th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Cool…thanks a lot!
October 20th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Great!
October 20th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Gloooooorious!
October 20th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Dude this is totally nice, I have been getting more readers i think in part because of my avatara.
October 20th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Cool to know that. The constant tweaks and improvements are making me upload my own avatar (As you can see, I haven’t done so yet).
October 20th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Nice!
ps.. first! lol.
October 20th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Cool! Looks like I better find a good picture to use as my avatar.
Humanizing, indeed.
October 20th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Wow, Matt! Great to see you!
October 20th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Thanks, WordPress!
October 20th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Its nice Matt!
October 20th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Very slick! Thank you Matt.
Visual touches like this help me parse info faster.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
It makes everything more personal and, indeed, humanizes the medium. (Humanizes is a great word!!!)
Greetings from Holland.
October 20th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Good job!
October 20th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Just wanted to show off my new avatar! Wheeee!
October 21st, 2006 at 12:19 am
Excellent!
Eoin
October 21st, 2006 at 2:01 am
My seven year old niece is totally crushing on you…
October 21st, 2006 at 4:39 am
Nice one guys. Highly aprreciated.
October 21st, 2006 at 5:41 am
oops loaded mine the wrong way round! How do I turn it round?
Lots of love from silly me.
October 21st, 2006 at 7:43 am
Don’t know if this is possible or has been said before, but how about using avatars as our blog’s favicons?
October 21st, 2006 at 10:22 am
Wooo!
October 21st, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Sweeeeeeeeeet!
October 21st, 2006 at 7:52 pm
a ja pozdrawiam po polsku!
October 21st, 2006 at 10:44 pm
keep it up.
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:40 am
Cheers =]
Thanks for all the hard work.
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:24 am
Kool
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:05 am
Matt, you are too cute with your happy face, I love it
I sincerely love to keep checking out what y’all are up to and how this thing just keeps getting better! The avatars rock and I totally agree that it makes it so much more personal, as we get to see how we choose to represent ourselves 
Thank you
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:31 am
Whee! Any plans to allow animated/gif avatars in the future? That would be even better. ^_^
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:12 am
awesome stuff :p
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:19 am
Thanks Matt
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:35 am
Nice and smooth!
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 am
Nice and smooth!
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:41 am
That’s great ’cause I want to show everyone I can float in the bath
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:11 am
thanks again
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
this is great… looks like i have to setup my avtar soon
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Thanks a lot.. wp
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Nice to see who is typing all this up for us!
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:41 pm
What If Im too good lookin’ to be represented by an avatar …
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Thanks!!!
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:17 pm
…
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:02 am
sry, i dont get it.. how can i use an avatar for my posts in my blog?
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:54 am
Great idea! This is another wonderful feature that I shall be using!
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:23 am
excellent! this place is wicked!
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 am
Nice idea!!!!Thanks!
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Matt, I could just pinch your rosy cheeks.
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
love avatars, love this place.
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
this is nice…but it is very small )=
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:32 pm
seems silly to say “me too, I like ‘em too!” after all those other posts, but…
i DO like them, Sam I am, so I’ll just go ahead and say it again even though it will truly benefit no one but me…
I like the avatars!
I wish they were a little bigger (like on LJ).
And the idea to spare slower connected folks with a way to “opt out” of seeing avatars sounds like a kindness as well…
October 24th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Everywhere?
Where?
October 24th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Good work.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:00 am
I loooove it!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Now, i can see me
October 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I dig
October 25th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Nice… thanks.
October 25th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Excellent, the secret Avatar Foundation’s plan for complete global domination is coming along quite nicely.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
wordpress was nothing without avatars!! we can understand that just now coz we have them!
always a good job!
October 25th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Testinggg
October 25th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
This is pretty cool, accept for now I cant figure out how to take mine off!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
thanks
October 27th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Great idea and I appreciate the hard work you did to get it done, guys. Keep up the good work!
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October 27th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Just to checkif my avatar works…
October 28th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Some nice Avatars here I think I need to improve on mine
October 28th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Hey I hope you guys love my penguin
October 28th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Yeah, but those of us who are using Sandbox theme don’t have them showing, whether or not we are implementing our own CSS!!
October 28th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Cool, now I wish I could delete it.
Oh well!
October 29th, 2006 at 12:58 am
WP.com roxx!
October 29th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
gracias WorPress
October 30th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Are you putting Avatars next to every post in multiple user blogs? This would help a lot!!!!!!
October 31st, 2006 at 3:02 am
What’s an Avatar?
October 31st, 2006 at 8:51 am
It is good to see who is writing what.. Good Job guys and gals.
Though I do agree with what Island in the Net asked, is it possible to get our avatars on the main Blog page? for those of us that want them there?
November 4th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Just wondering …
What is the point of ‘avatars everywhere’ when on certain themes they end up so eensy-weensy that you can’t tell what they are at all?
November 6th, 2006 at 12:31 am
good:)
November 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
It’s cool to be able to see who is posting comments that also has a WordPress account. Keep up the great work
October 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Everywhere???????????????