Avatar vs. gravatar
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Help! I’m searching through all the questions and comments re avatars/gravatars, but I still can’t find answers to two questions: 1) How do I load a simple photo avatar? (I’ve searched all over wordpress.com and can’t find the way/place to do this), and 2) Are avatar and gravatar the same except that a photo uploaded using the gravatar program might find its way onto other–non-wordpress.com–sites?
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1) How do I load a simple photo avatar?You can click on the “Change your Gravatar” link from your user profile at http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php . Please refer to http://support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/ for more information.
2) Are avatar and gravatar the same except that a photo uploaded using the gravatar program might find its way onto other--non-wordpress.com--sites?Yes, Gravatar is just another term for/type of avatar. It’s just your user image, and yes, on other blogs/sites that support Gravatar, your image will come with you.
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Thanks for your reply.
However, I’m still a bit confused. So then are you saying that, as of now, there is no way to load a photo for my avatar on WordPress other than using the gravatar program?
It sounds like that is the case…My issue with it is that I don’t like the idea of of a photo that I use for my WordPress avatar ‘circulating’ about the web. (I know–stuff circulates all the time, but I don’t want to encourage it, or set stuff up that definitely will circulate.)
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Avatar = gravatar = avatar = gravatar. They are the same.
Gravatar” circulates” nothing.
The gravatar only shows up when YOU comment on a site that has gravatars enabled. If you don’t want your image “circulated” when you comment, don’t upload an avatar/gravatar.
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I’ve had an avatar for a couple of years, but never did sign up for a gravatar.
Is my avatar now a gravatar?
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Having an issue with the gravatar: In my profile, when I click to upload, I only get an empty box. The image/gravatar displayed is a graphic. So the Gravatar does not work for me. Is there another widget that I can just use my already uploaded avatar? Thanks.
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timeofbeing
Please provide a link to your blog whenever you ask for technical advice, starting with http:// . We often need to see your blog in order to make an appropriate answer.For WordPress.COM blogs:
Lots of people have had difficulties with the process described in “Support”
( http://support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/ )They even mention this in the Support documentation:
“If the popup for Gravatar doesn’t work, you can visit gravatar.com directly.” -
Thanks for replies, but I am a bit bothered–assuming I understand gravatar correctly–by the fact that the photo one uploads on WordPress to be one’s WordPress image will appear on other sites that have gravatar ‘enabled’.
I’m not so sure I want that…Perhaps some like the idea of an image/photo appearing elsewhere when they comment on a non-Wordpress site, but I don’t. I like the idea that my avatar/gravatar on WordPress is unigue to this site, as my blog is, and the material I present on it is.
It’s interesting to me that no one else–from what I’ve seen so far–is commenting on this. I know that the web spreads far and wide, but that doesn’t mean that I want some kind of traveling avatar…This might be the trend in avatars, but I’m not so sure it’s a welcome one.
Perhaps I’m not understanding how many and what kinds of sites will ‘enable’ gravatar…?
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“I am a bit bothered–assuming I understand gravatar correctly–by the fact that the photo one uploads on WordPress to be one’s WordPress image will appear on other sites that have gravatar ‘enabled’.”
I don’t care for that either.
If there was a option at the other sites to “enable” your avatar for that site then fine, but not to have it show up just anywhere out of the blue.
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You can use a different email and URL to comment on external blogs, and then it will not connect to your Gravatar, PROVIDED you’ve signed out of WP.com.
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People were asking for avatars they had here at wordpress.COM to also show on comments they made on blogs outside of wordpress.COM. People from outside wordpress.COM would actually sign up here so they could get an avatar and have it show when they commented here.
Why is it so much different having an avatar appear only here when you comment on wordpress.COM blogs? Do you think your avatar image is any safer here? I can go to any blog here, look through the comments and take screen caps of any avatar that anyone here uses and plaster it all over the internet. If you put your avatar image in your sidebar, or include it in your about page I can take it from there too.
ANYTHING posted on the internet, ANYWHERE, is susceptible to being stolen or misappropriated. NOTHING on the internet is immune.
If you don’t want something taken off the internet, DO NOT put it on the internet.
Gravatars ONLY appear where you comment and only on blogs that have gravatars enabled.
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Therefore it is okay to not have liberty or privacy anymore.
I don’t agree – but realize how things are these days.
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Thanks TT.
One other think I will note is that if you do not want your avatar showing outside of wordpress.COM, make all comments outside of .COM while logged out of .COM and use a different throw-away email address such as yahoo, hotmail or gmail instead of the email address associated with your blog/email address here.
If you want, you can even do a junk gravatar to go with that throw-away emails address by signing up for a different account at gravatar with the throw-away email address.
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“I forgot to start my comment above with @thesacredpath “
I was sure you meant me. :)
Workarounds should not be necessary. It is the removal of personal choice that is annoying. Now every individual has to jump through hoops to just try and stop all the invasions of personal liberty and privacy. These are inalienable rights – regardless the barage on them.
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I’m new to WP and excited to get my blog going however I have been going around and around for a few days trying to figure out how to keep my photo visible no matter what I post. It seems to disappear after uploading my blog. I thought I should include it in the Text Widget – that didn’t work. And now I tried the Gravatar Widget – didn’t work. I must be doing something wrong. Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Victoria
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