Negative99 » gravatar http://negative99.com An onslaught of expository excellence covering web design and development, politics and current events, faith and religion, guitar and music, programming... oh, and anything else. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:22:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and all’s well. http://negative99.com/blogging/upgraded-to-wordpress-26-and-alls-well/ http://negative99.com/blogging/upgraded-to-wordpress-26-and-alls-well/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:21:48 +0000 WarAxe http://negative99.com/?p=443 I begged them to implement the WordPress.COM avatar-generation option for the WordPress.ORG software… and in THIS version they did! That means that if a commenter doesn’t have a Gravatar (although everyone SHOULD!) I can instead have their supplied email address generate an avatar for them – like a special geometric pattern (identicon) or a little monster (monsterID).

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My site supports what are called gravatars, or globally recognized avatars. Your gravatar is basically a small, square picture that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on a gravatar-enabled website. There are many, many websites that support gravatars… and version 2.5 of WordPress (the most prevalent blogging software on the internet) was recently released with gravatar support built-in.

On Negative99, you will see gravatars used in the comments section of my blog posts. I have included a sample screen capture here of some blog comments… I have marked people who have an active gravatar image with a green arrow, and those that don’t with a red one. You can see that the default placeholder for someone without a gravatar is a light-gray, androgynous silhouette. Don’t let this be you! :-)

Signing up for a gravatar is FREE and painless. All you need is your email address. You’ll be able to upload any image you like and perform zoom and crop functions inside their website. You can also “store” more than one gravatar for later use – I have five gravatars that I’ll rotate through when I get bored. It can’t get much easier.

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