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Use Gravatars to Build Recognition

15 July 2008 745 views 2 Comments

Spread your smile around the web with your own Gravatar!

With the advent of WordPress 2.5.1 comes the integration of Gravatars. What are Gravatars you ask? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog, appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Gravatars help identify your posts on blogs and builds recognition for you around the blogosphere, particularly if you’re an active commenter on others’ blogs.

You can associate an avatar of your choice (or of your own creation) with your email address at Gravatar.com. You can register multiple email addresses with the same avatar, or associate a unique avatar for each email address.

Note: Gravatars are not specific to WordPress, and can be used not only on other blogging platforms, but on websites and even desktop applications!


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2 Comments »

  • Barbara Swafford said:

    Hi Suzanne,

    Gravatars are great, aren’t they? I like how it gives my readers a chance to see themselves and their other friends on my site.

    BTW: I’m going the be using the Ajax Edit Comment plugin you suggested. Thank you!

    # 15 July 2008 at 1:55 pm
  • Deborah Weber said:

    Fun tip Suzanne – thanks!

    # 16 July 2008 at 11:17 am