New Feature: Avatars

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1. Katie Aug 30th at 6:55 pm

   I’m having trouble CHANGING my avatar. Several times I’ve uploaded a new one, it sticks for a while, and then a while later my avatar reverts to the original file. What’s going on?
2. engtech Aug 30th at 7:00 pm

   You know what would be awesome?

   If there was a per-blog option to display the avatar of post author. This would be really good for multiple-author blogs like http://frambojan.wordpress.com
3. adam Aug 30th at 7:08 pm

   schweet!
   mine’s not showing up in the forums yet, but i trust it’ll get there eventually.
4. trancefixed Aug 30th at 7:18 pm

   Nice touch
   I hope you realise how much work you’ve created for yourselves now everyone will want avatars on EVERYTHING
5. telegehirn Aug 30th at 7:23 pm

   Cool Feature! Thanks a lot.
6. mactiste Aug 30th at 7:30 pm

   testing, testing…
7. slvrbullt02 Aug 30th at 7:36 pm

   uh huh
8. lily Aug 30th at 7:37 pm

   verrrrrrry cool!
   Thanks!
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10. La spectatrice Aug 30th at 7:48 pm

    I’m just testing my own avatar. You, guys, do really great things!
    Thanks. 🙂
11. La spectatrice Aug 30th at 7:49 pm

    I’m testing again!
12. Pippi Aug 30th at 7:54 pm

    Yay Avatar!
13. Robert Aug 30th at 8:07 pm

    Too bad that avatars do not show up with trackbacks yet.
14. Shoulung Aug 30th at 8:17 pm

    Very cool, now we just need access to plug-ins…
15. delimoon Aug 30th at 8:17 pm

    Great idea ! thanks a lot ! I’m just testing. My avatar was succesfull upload in section profile, but I don’t see it anywhere. ????? I’m using theme “connection 1.0”.
    It’s my first blog. It’s was hard at the beginning, but thanks to wp, I just did it !
    Sorry for language errors, my language is french (Switzerland).
    Bye
16. tekoda Aug 30th at 8:28 pm

    This is a really cool feature!
17. maupin Aug 30th at 9:13 pm

    Please consider making our avatars favicons!
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19. Drache Aug 30th at 10:02 pm

    ooh, pretty avatars. Thumbs up!
20. Yaser Aug 30th at 10:54 pm

    Mad cool. Now just to find a good avatar, I’ll be playin with this for a while. Thanks again.
21. drhaisook Aug 30th at 10:55 pm

    GREAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!1
22. amandakern Aug 30th at 11:15 pm

    nice addition
23. dcd1955 Aug 30th at 11:32 pm

    Very cool.
24. bridgetmarie Aug 30th at 11:42 pm

    I just uploaded mine….I’m just testing too…Cool new feature!
25. David Waterston Aug 31st at 12:23 am

    Nice!
26. Edna Aug 31st at 12:30 am

    Nifty! This just keeps getting funner all the time!
27. Carpus Aug 31st at 12:33 am

    I get to try too!
28. cynthesis Aug 31st at 12:46 am

    :grin:Lovely!

    Thanks for coming up with a feature that I was wishing for!
29. vjp Aug 31st at 1:23 am

    Cool beans 🙂
30. mooth Aug 31st at 1:29 am

    Very nice!, it was time to! =)
31. oddmix Aug 31st at 3:02 am

    Very Cool!
32. inadvertentgardener Aug 31st at 3:20 am

    I have to say…I like it! It’s another good option to help identify us to each other, and helps build the WordPress community. That’s a good thing.

    Genie
    The Inadvertent Gardener
33. Annaleis Aug 31st at 4:33 am

    This is a great idea from our friends at WordPress! It makes the blogs just that little bit more personal. Thanks!
34. calupict Aug 31st at 5:12 am

    Just test my avatar.

    How we can use it at our own blog?
35. Matt Aug 31st at 6:09 am

    We’re going to begin adding them to the theme templates soon.
36. Bryan Aug 31st at 6:56 am

    Yep! I’ll be getting right on that. 😉
37. Addie Aug 31st at 8:27 am

    Brilliant!!! Love the idea ;-D How about if my avator was visible on other blog sites as well and not only in my blog … would be nice if it was.
38. SimonD Aug 31st at 10:22 am

    It’s the unpredictable little add-ons like this which make me love WordPress.com, guys.
39. Qaan Aug 31st at 11:28 am

    that’s great! thnx 🙂
40. Rebecca Aguilar Aug 31st at 11:34 am

    I don’t smile friendly enough to post my own picture for an avatar! (Yes. I face too many unnecessary hurdles in life due to this problem.)

    Any suggestions for avatars, other than my own mug?
41. problogger Aug 31st at 12:55 pm

    ooh – pretty….
42. Chittaranjan Aug 31st at 1:20 pm

    Nice! Whoever it was that had this Brilliant idea deserves a round of applause *stands up and Applauds*
43. rant-inc Aug 31st at 1:53 pm

    Avatars are great idea, except I always need some assistance picking a good one.
    Good job.
44. wurd Aug 31st at 2:20 pm

    wurd.
45. undercovermutha Aug 31st at 2:52 pm

    Excellent move. I was wondering why WordPress didn’t have them. You guys are on it!
46. tigerfeet Aug 31st at 2:58 pm

    Cool

    can’t wait to have a template with my Avatar on 🙂
47. .i dream in red. Aug 31st at 3:18 pm

    thats awesome
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49. findingbabyg Aug 31st at 4:03 pm

    It would be nice to have as an option for the sidebar
50. Aaron Brazell Aug 31st at 5:52 pm

    Hot dog…. Nice deal. Another way to drive people to wordpress.com. 🙂
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52. avuee Aug 31st at 6:14 pm

    Neat!
53. hazel8500 Aug 31st at 6:19 pm

    Very cool! Thanks WordPress!
54. graphicaimee Aug 31st at 7:44 pm

    I can’t wait till this feature is available for my blog!
55. psychodelicategirl Aug 31st at 7:44 pm

    Love this idea.
56. Melissa Barton Aug 31st at 7:52 pm

    Neat!
57. blarz Aug 31st at 8:05 pm

    Woohoo!! 🙂
58. jazzle Aug 31st at 9:23 pm

    Good move.
59. trime Aug 31st at 9:39 pm

    Thanks!
60. rici Aug 31st at 10:28 pm

    CAYOOOOOOO !!
61. Justin Aug 31st at 11:44 pm

    This new avatar idea is really awesome. You can never go wrong with avatars can you hehe. It would really be cool if somehow they could get integrated into the comments on ppls blogs, or on their blogs in some other way.

    That would be cool, keep it up guys!
62. Guy Murray Sep 1st at 3:19 am

    Way Cool!
63. Griffin Lilly Jr Sep 1st at 5:31 am

    WOO HOO! Finally!!! WordPress finally is officially da bomb!
64. Righteously Insane™ Sep 1st at 6:22 am

    I can’t wait till they start appearing in our own blogs (comments and posts). ^_^ Cheers!
65. Kelly Sep 1st at 12:16 pm

    nice
66. Amit Sep 1st at 3:36 pm

    pretty good going Matt!! 🙂
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68. zappi Sep 1st at 4:31 pm

    Nice one, thats why I choose wordpress, or was it ’cause it is f****** 1337?
    I realy can’t remember. 😛

    Cheers
69. elitrope Sep 1st at 4:43 pm

    *fun*
70. hsigrist Sep 1st at 6:30 pm

    de pelos!!
71. helenl Sep 1st at 7:03 pm

    I’m using this to test the avatar, which, hitheto, appears to be invisible.
72. Alex Daniel Barril Sep 1st at 8:58 pm

    Genial, espero poder usarlo pronto en otros sitios.
    Saludos
73. Elizabeth Sep 1st at 9:59 pm

    Coolness!
74. huniii Sep 1st at 10:26 pm

    1337!
75. tacofish Sep 1st at 10:32 pm

    I now have an avatar. I am quite possibly the coolest person ever. Thanks, WordPress.com!!!
76. bstewart23 Sep 1st at 11:06 pm

    Terrific! Can’t wait for the full rollout!
77. Elsie Sep 2nd at 12:21 am

    Thank you guys!!!! I love these things 🙂
78. blackscribe Sep 2nd at 5:02 am

    Me like!
79. Gray Sep 2nd at 7:37 am

    [Request] could you also add an option to integrate Gravatar?
80. hyperreality Sep 2nd at 10:03 am

    Excellent, thank you!
81. Dick Devos's Head Sep 2nd at 12:28 pm

    I LIVVVVVE!!!!!!

    Love me, Fear Me, Elect me as your Dark Overlord!
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83. zaranda Sep 2nd at 4:39 pm

    From LIFE’S ILLUSIONS:

    Sounds like a great idea. Now if a techno blockhead like me can work out how to get my pic next to my posts … (I mean, IS that the idea?)

    http:/www.zaranda.wordpress.com
84. சாத்தான் Sep 2nd at 5:08 pm

    Cool! Like everybody I’m commenting here to have a look at my avatar.
85. azahar Sep 2nd at 5:33 pm

    Cute idea … though might be a bit much if they end up on all our blog comments. Especially as most of them will probably end up being question marks.

    I’m still hoping for a comment preview button … (hint hint)

    But I don’t mean to sound ungrateful – I really love WordPress and all the new stuff you keep doing for us. People keep asking me if I’m getting a commission from you guys …
86. Jonás Sep 2nd at 5:40 pm

    Me encanta este nuevo gadget :), thank you very much.
87. சத்தியா Sep 2nd at 6:18 pm

    mm… Excellent! thank you!!!
88. Matt Sep 2nd at 9:39 pm

    Hey folks you should start seeing avatars show up in a few of the themes now.
89. fmatt Sep 3rd at 2:28 am

    awesome! thanks!!!!
90. brenda Sep 3rd at 3:23 am

    I like it. But can we have it show up on the sidebar near our ‘about’ section? 🙂 Pretty please.
91. Robert Sep 3rd at 7:35 am

    @brenda: you can create a text item in you widgets that holds some html. Simply include an img-tag to your own avatar. The url to your avatar is:

    
    
    

    So, your avatar should show up as

    Was this of any help?
92. Hypnos Sep 3rd at 9:14 am

    Thank you so much!!
93. Orion Sep 3rd at 10:51 am

    nice touch.
94. JV Sep 3rd at 1:17 pm

    That’s absolutely amazing! Thanks for the avatar!!! Yay!:grin:
95. Kurt Sep 3rd at 1:33 pm

    Ok, works fine. Will people who comment and have a gravatar, see it appear next to their comment ?
96. terminallycute Sep 3rd at 4:21 pm

    Fabulous! Keep up the awesome work!!

    ~TC
97. engtech Sep 3rd at 7:24 pm

    Does anyone have a list of what themes support avatars?
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99. Naoko Kensaku Sep 4th at 1:28 am

    I love you guys.
100. healingmagichands Sep 4th at 1:48 am

     I barely have enough time to just type my blog entry and now you want me to find a picture and upload it? AAAAAAAaaaaaaaIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!