Go Get A Blavatar
Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars.
“What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars.
As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in a browser’s web address bar. It’ll also show up next to your pingbacks in the comments section of other blogs.
To get a blavatar for your blog, just go to Settings in your dashboard and upload an image as your Blog Picture. After you upload, you can crop as you like. Save and you’re all set.
Dec 2nd at 5:22 pm
Sweet, really glad WP.com users can now make their own Favicon’s, but I’ve moved to WordPress.org, so it doesn’t really affect me. Great idea WordPress though!
Dec 2nd at 5:44 pm
kewl beans!
Dec 2nd at 6:02 pm
yay! thanks for this! I’m going to go make one right now–as soon as I watch the video to see how!
Dec 2nd at 6:08 pm
Fantástico! Gracias WordPress.com!
Dec 2nd at 6:15 pm
This is great !!!
Thanks for adding this feature.
Dec 2nd at 6:16 pm
I’d been looking for something like this for quite some time now. Thanks a lot WordPress!
Dec 2nd at 6:17 pm
Thank you for this great feature!!!
Dec 2nd at 6:27 pm
Yes! I better get to uploading my blavatar right now.
Thanks for this!
Dec 2nd at 6:35 pm
Wow! Cool updates. I’m loving to use my own favicons.
Dec 2nd at 6:36 pm
Thuper!
Dec 2nd at 6:39 pm
I’t works…
finally…
Me very, very happy!
Dec 2nd at 6:41 pm
Nicely done
Dec 2nd at 6:49 pm
Geat mates. Always on the top
Dec 2nd at 6:51 pm
Interesting and thanks.
~MadSilence
Dec 2nd at 6:52 pm
Thanks
I am trying now…
Dec 2nd at 6:53 pm
that’s so cool
Dec 2nd at 6:55 pm
oh, yeah. that’s definately cool
Dec 2nd at 6:56 pm
Chuck Norris? The man, the myth… the um… the 3rd rate actor and telecrap hawker… the ignorant religious zealot and fascist neocon ? Nice pick!
Dec 2nd at 6:57 pm
Wootie-tootie. Getting mine right now.
Dec 2nd at 6:57 pm
That is very nifty. Now I have this overwhelming urge to ping.
Dec 2nd at 7:03 pm
great! thanks!!
Dec 2nd at 7:05 pm
Awesome!
Dec 2nd at 7:12 pm
Thank you for exciting Blavatars
Dec 2nd at 7:15 pm
Wow ^_^
Dec 2nd at 7:17 pm
Oh man! This is GREAT!!!!
Dec 2nd at 7:19 pm
Ummm…. I guess this is cool…
Dec 2nd at 7:20 pm
This is great! Thanks!!! You guys are the BEST!
Dec 2nd at 7:24 pm
nice
~
Dec 2nd at 7:26 pm
By the way, I notice that these comments are in reverse order – newest first. Is that option coming too?
Dec 2nd at 7:33 pm
Ah, cool. Thanks y’all.
Dec 2nd at 7:38 pm
Looks good to me!
Dec 2nd at 7:43 pm
Oh wow. This is pretty awesome. Thanks for much for this.
Dec 2nd at 7:53 pm
wait, is this a new feature? I thought you could already do this. …now I’m confused.
Dec 2nd at 7:58 pm
Definitely a great feature! I’m gonna get an image to put up in my blog now!
~Kyetsu
Dec 2nd at 8:01 pm
Aah! This is really cool. Just checked a blog with blavatar! That’s really interesting.
Dec 2nd at 8:04 pm
Unless I missed something in the video, this feature isn’t all that new. I started my blog in October & added my avatar the same day. So it’s at least a couple months old. Very easy to do though. You can use your own picture or clip art, or you can find an online avatar maker & create your own cartoon you.
Dec 3rd at 10:43 pm
Avatars are different from Blavatars. You change your avatar under Edit Profile in the My Account menu, and this appears as your icon next to comments and in the Author widget. Blavatars are set under Settings > General and appear in your browser and in pingbacks.
Dec 2nd at 8:11 pm
That blavatar for chuck really looks like mine!!! :@
Dec 2nd at 8:14 pm
Sweet, qiuckly everyone update your blavatars before it is too late!!!!!
Dec 2nd at 8:16 pm
I the the people at wordpress never sleep or something. very nice, I will definately have to get my self one them blavatar things.
Dec 2nd at 8:17 pm
i just went to settings to change something, and i found the blavatar! mine is a penguin
Dec 2nd at 8:31 pm
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
You have no idea how much I so effing wanted to have my own favicon!!!
Dec 2nd at 8:31 pm
Great!
Dec 2nd at 8:32 pm
This is awesome. Thanks!!
Dec 2nd at 8:34 pm
This is a cool feature! Thanks, WP!
Dec 2nd at 8:40 pm
Awesome!! Thanks so much for this!
Dec 2nd at 8:42 pm
You guys are the best ^.^
Thanks !!!
Dec 2nd at 8:42 pm
Excelente!
Muchas gracias WordPress!
Dec 2nd at 8:51 pm
Wow great feature!
Dec 2nd at 8:51 pm
I found out from the start, just some days after I made my blog, all by myself, is this supposed to be difficult? .. or am I special?
Dec 3rd at 11:17 pm
You likely uploaded an avatar, not a blavatar. Please see my comment above for an explanation of the differences between the two.
Dec 2nd at 8:54 pm
Cool deal, I’ll give it a try.
Dec 2nd at 9:03 pm
OMFG I-LOVE-IT, but not Chuck Norris (just had to clear that up)
Dec 2nd at 9:08 pm
Cool, I like how you guys think. Keep it up.
Dec 2nd at 9:10 pm
This is awesome!!! Thanks WordPress, I’m setting up my Blavatar right now! :’D
Dec 2nd at 9:10 pm
Thanks for this, after years asking finally we got it !
Just one feature request: could it work the transparency ? I tried uploading a png with alpha layer and in the final favicon got a white background
Dec 2nd at 9:16 pm
this aint nothin’ new people.
Dec 2nd at 9:17 pm
I couldn’t see the video in Google Reader.
Dec 2nd at 9:27 pm
What a great concept. Wow, WordPress keeps coming up with more things all the time!
Dec 2nd at 9:29 pm
Nice!
Dec 2nd at 9:36 pm
Yes, I’ve been looking for this feature. Going to try it now!
Dec 2nd at 9:40 pm
Woohoo! Thank you so much!
Dec 2nd at 9:44 pm
What a nice feature! Never had time to go get a favicon, now it’s almost immediately done, thanks a lot, WP
Dec 2nd at 9:45 pm
Dude, Chuck Norris is so 2005.
Dec 2nd at 10:06 pm
Wonderful! Thanks!
Dec 2nd at 10:15 pm
That’s so Cool!
Dec 2nd at 10:19 pm
Yesss! This has been a recurring request on the FAQ page.
Dec 2nd at 10:22 pm
oops! I did it again:) I checked it out, and it worked. thanx!
Dec 2nd at 10:22 pm
This is awesome!
Dec 2nd at 10:24 pm
Blavatars ROK!
Dec 2nd at 10:26 pm
If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Chuck Norris.
Dec 2nd at 10:30 pm
For me it is like the first Christmas gift. Thanks
Dec 2nd at 10:33 pm
Very cool indeed – thanks!
Dec 2nd at 10:37 pm
Very neat! Thank u very much!
Dec 2nd at 10:37 pm
WOW!!!! Very very Thanks WordPress! Really good idea.
Dec 2nd at 10:49 pm
cool! I’ve been waiting for this stuff.
Dec 2nd at 10:49 pm
Love my Blovitard
Dec 2nd at 11:03 pm
Thanks for instituting this! It makes me so happy.
Dec 2nd at 11:21 pm
Yes! Favicons! Thank you so much!
Dec 2nd at 11:42 pm
wow, this is great…
thanks….
Dec 2nd at 11:51 pm
That looks great! Creating a Favicon is quite complicated, but this seems to be very easy!
Dec 2nd at 11:55 pm
This is cool, I like the feature.
Thanks!!
Dec 3rd at 12:12 am
wheee
Dec 3rd at 12:22 am
Gonna make it now…
Dec 3rd at 12:22 am
Thank you
Dec 3rd at 12:26 am
Thank you, great Blavatar
Dec 3rd at 1:03 am
Blavatar? We don’t need no stinking blavatar.
Dec 3rd at 1:12 am
Cool! Can you change it periodically or are you stuck with one?
Dec 3rd at 1:20 am
Great Job. WP is the best.
Dec 3rd at 1:20 am
What’s next?
Lavatar – animated gif of a lava lamp
Tartavatar – random meat images
Pravatar – Your name in Hindi
Javatar – Animated java image, rotating in 3D
Flavatar – Same, but in Flash
Olavatar – Scented images
Dec 3rd at 1:24 am
yey!t thanks WP!
Dec 3rd at 1:29 am
Yay ^__^ thank you!
Dec 3rd at 1:33 am
Oh for heaven’s sake. Could you have come up with a worse name?
Dec 3rd at 1:45 am
Nicely done! This finally closes the last gap that was remaining with “blog branding”.
We can now finally have a uniformed “set” look when people visit out sites.
Thank you, and as usual: You guy/girls rock!!!