WordPress.com Goes Gravatar Crazy
Howdy there bloggers! You’ll no doubt remember that when we acquired Gravatar.com, just over a year ago, we intended to fully integrate it into WordPress.com. It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally replaced the WordPress.com avatar system with those Globally Recognized Avatars. What does this mean? It means your WordPress.com avatar can now follow you around the web. Your avatar can show up on any Gravatar enabled site, regardless of its affiliation with Automattic!
The old avatar tool in your WordPress.com profiles has been replaced with your current Gravatar (left.) If you click on that icon you’ll be taken to Gravatar.com (and automatically logged into your account) where you can easily change your image (right). You can upload an image from your computer, paste in a link to an image on the internet, or even take a picture of yourself using your computers webcam. Cropping and rating your images are as easy as ever. After you finish your new image will automatically attach to your email address (assuming you only have one email address on your account,) or you will be presented with a simple-as-pie list of your email addresses, and you can attach the new image to any or all of them! Just close the Gravatar window when you’re done.
Of course all of the standard Gravatar features are available to you. Upload as many images as you wish, switch them as often as you like, add as many email addresses as you want to your account, and more features still in the works.
If you find that you have an “old” image for your Gravatar, simply click on the link to change it and then click on the “Use your last WordPress.com Avatar” link to get the new one back. There are bound to be some small hiccups here and there. Just let Support know when something doesn’t work quite right, and we’ll get everything ironed out in no time.
Cheers!
DK
Posted: Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 1:59 am. Filed in Avatars, Dashboard, Features, New Features, settings, WordPress.com.
Dec 10th at 2:58 am
Awesome Possum!
Dec 10th at 4:53 am
Another cool WordPress idea.
It’s really great to have.
Dec 10th at 4:58 am
does it makes better ?
Dec 10th at 5:33 am
Is it ok to just keep my Avatar, it’s my Business Tool?
Dec 10th at 8:04 am
my avatar just disappeared once with wordpress 2.7. the trouble is tat i don’t have the picture anymore, and I really loved it… Tell me where it is. how can i retrieve it – since i never tampered with it, once i set it up.
Dec 10th at 10:04 am
Hyeaaaaaaaaaaaa,…wordpress,…no words,..just…I press and say,thanks a lot…muahxxxxxxx,…
Obrigada….
Dec 10th at 10:40 am
J’ai mal à la tête!
Dec 10th at 11:57 am
Está bueno, aunque va a ser realmente mejor cuando la página de gravatar.com este en otros idiomas también… para mucha personas ese todavía es un freno para tener su gravatar!
Dec 10th at 12:27 pm
Wow. And, indeed, double wow. So, wow-wow. Nifty.
Dec 10th at 3:08 pm
Sweet thanks for the upgrade.
Dec 10th at 4:05 pm
Awesome!
*dances in seat* Thanks!
Dec 10th at 4:39 pm
Many thanks for *all* the good things…
Dec 10th at 4:56 pm
nice.
Dec 10th at 5:05 pm
i think its a little creepy to be identified everywhere.. im still like confused why i have a geometric pattern, then in my comments i had a monster which i changed to a baloon.. eah now im testing to see if my changes took effect
Dec 10th at 5:26 pm
Good, good. Now how about enabling adsense?
Dec 10th at 5:47 pm
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Dec 10th at 11:59 pm
thats fantastic.great news for teachers
Dec 11th at 12:32 am
sweet…
thats why I love wordpress
Dec 11th at 10:41 am
Awesome! Thanks for the update!
Dec 11th at 11:41 am
Thank you for the newest products of wordpress that launched at this month. But when you will upgrade the theme templates?
Dec 11th at 1:16 pm
Nice avatar
Dec 12th at 5:34 am
That’s mighty nifty… now if I could just stay looking like this is real life
Dec 12th at 7:12 am
again with the snowing!! this is great!
Dec 12th at 10:49 am
I like this feature. It´s good for our personal branding.
Dec 12th at 1:04 pm
I love the new stuff and the new 2.7 really rocks. Thanks!
Dec 12th at 3:23 pm
Thanks, you guys do such an awesome job!
Dec 12th at 3:58 pm
superbly superb….. really that’s what i like about wordpress
Dec 12th at 11:14 pm
Yes! Now my WordPress avatar goes on my teacher’s edublog and I can brag about how I get custom avatars while all of the other students get lame geometric patterns.
Dec 13th at 12:50 am
Nice transformed wordpress.. Thank a lot.. Good to great !
Dec 13th at 2:17 pm
Wow it’s great
Dec 14th at 3:24 am
Like it, nice!
Dec 14th at 3:41 pm
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Dec 15th at 1:01 pm
That’s great news! Thank you!
Dec 15th at 10:20 pm
My little glyph shows up on browser tabs. How cool is that.
Dec 16th at 3:12 am
sounds like a really good update!
Dec 16th at 8:47 am
Nice, I really like the this gravatarand blavatar feature
Dec 16th at 9:41 pm
Impressive service. Why pay’s you guys?
Dec 17th at 1:35 am
I feel empowered..LOVIN’ IT! Thanks WP! Happy Holidays
Dec 17th at 3:09 am
I am looking forward to great stuff by WP!
Dec 17th at 4:22 am
It will be better if the Avatars could be randomly generated from all the photos uploaded instead of just choosing one for each email.
Dec 17th at 8:38 pm
Cool.Avatars of treasure island!
Dec 18th at 4:22 am
Nice!
Dec 18th at 2:50 pm
Beautiful!!!
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Dec 19th at 2:23 am
How deep crazy on this Avatar ?
may be i must try it…
Dec 19th at 8:16 pm
Awesome feature!
Dec 20th at 12:20 pm
The Gravatar hasn’t worked for me! I’ve ended up with those symbols! Please can you fix that for me?
Dec 22nd at 7:55 pm
Try going to My Account > Edit Profile (from the top) and you can upload a new one there.
Dec 21st at 3:17 pm
That is awesome! Thanks for constant upgrading for the community!
Dec 21st at 3:37 pm
This calls for another cup of coffee.
Dec 22nd at 12:32 am
sweet! Pure Genius! 100% Genius!! OMG Genious!!! ok i better stop with the geniuses!! BUT THIS IS SO AWESOME!!! it’s like an early christmas present from WordPress!! keep doing the stuff u do wordpress!!~Heatblast378