Posted: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm. Filed in Features.
Tags: Avatars, blavatar, favicons, Features, icons
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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.
doneTo 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.
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December 2nd, 2008 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!
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
kewl beans!
December 2nd, 2008 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!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Fantástico! Gracias WordPress.com!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
This is great !!!
Thanks for adding this feature.
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I’d been looking for something like this for quite some time now. Thanks a lot WordPress!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Thank you for this great feature!!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Yes! I better get to uploading my blavatar right now.
Thanks for this!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Wow! Cool updates. I’m loving to use my own favicons.
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Thuper!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I’t works…
finally…
Me very, very happy!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Nicely done
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Geat mates. Always on the top
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Interesting and thanks.
~MadSilence
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Thanks
I am trying now…
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
that’s so cool
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
oh, yeah. that’s definately cool
December 2nd, 2008 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!
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Wootie-tootie. Getting mine right now.
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
That is very nifty. Now I have this overwhelming urge to ping.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
great! thanks!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Awesome!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Thank you for exciting Blavatars
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Wow ^_^
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Oh man! This is GREAT!!!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Ummm…. I guess this is cool…
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
This is great! Thanks!!! You guys are the BEST!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
nice
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December 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
By the way, I notice that these comments are in reverse order – newest first. Is that option coming too?
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Ah, cool. Thanks y’all.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Looks good to me!
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Oh wow. This is pretty awesome. Thanks for much for this.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
wait, is this a new feature? I thought you could already do this. …now I’m confused.
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Definitely a great feature! I’m gonna get an image to put up in my blog now!
~Kyetsu
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Aah! This is really cool. Just checked a blog with blavatar! That’s really interesting.
December 2nd, 2008 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.
December 3rd, 2008 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.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
That blavatar for chuck really looks like mine!!! :@
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Sweet, qiuckly everyone update your blavatars before it is too late!!!!!
December 2nd, 2008 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.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
i just went to settings to change something, and i found the blavatar! mine is a penguin
December 2nd, 2008 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!!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Great!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
This is awesome. Thanks!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
This is a cool feature! Thanks, WP!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Awesome!! Thanks so much for this!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
You guys are the best ^.^
Thanks !!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Excelente!
Muchas gracias WordPress!
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Wow great feature!
December 2nd, 2008 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?
December 3rd, 2008 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.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Cool deal, I’ll give it a try.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
OMFG I-LOVE-IT, but not Chuck Norris (just had to clear that up)
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Cool, I like how you guys think. Keep it up.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This is awesome!!! Thanks WordPress, I’m setting up my Blavatar right now! :’D
December 2nd, 2008 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
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
this aint nothin’ new people.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I couldn’t see the video in Google Reader.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
What a great concept. Wow, WordPress keeps coming up with more things all the time!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Nice!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Yes, I’ve been looking for this feature. Going to try it now!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Woohoo! Thank you so much!
December 2nd, 2008 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
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Dude, Chuck Norris is so 2005.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Wonderful! Thanks!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
That’s so Cool!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Yesss! This has been a recurring request on the FAQ page.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
oops! I did it again:) I checked it out, and it worked. thanx!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
This is awesome!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Blavatars ROK!
December 2nd, 2008 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.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
For me it is like the first Christmas gift. Thanks
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Very cool indeed – thanks!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Very neat! Thank u very much!
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
WOW!!!! Very very Thanks WordPress! Really good idea.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
cool! I’ve been waiting for this stuff.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Love my Blovitard
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Thanks for instituting this! It makes me so happy.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Yes! Favicons! Thank you so much!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
wow, this is great…
thanks….
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
That looks great! Creating a Favicon is quite complicated, but this seems to be very easy!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
This is cool, I like the feature.
Thanks!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 am
wheee
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Gonna make it now…
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Thank you
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 am
Thank you, great Blavatar
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 am
Blavatar? We don’t need no stinking blavatar.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 am
Cool! Can you change it periodically or are you stuck with one?
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 am
Great Job. WP is the best.
December 3rd, 2008 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
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 am
yey!t thanks WP!
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 am
Yay ^__^ thank you!
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 am
Oh for heaven’s sake. Could you have come up with a worse name?
December 3rd, 2008 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!!!