Blavatar and Avatar Problems
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For those who aren’t quite sure what a gravatar is, here’s the WP press release
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Also here is the article for Blavatar for those
aren’t quite sure what a Blavatar is.Official WordPress.COM blog,
Go Get A BlavatarThank you Diamond, for posting the Gravatar link. :-)
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Well, Teck I figured since the thread is getting long; people would be gravitating to it! :P
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diamond:
LOL
Well I see that my Gravatar shows correctly on the home page
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Most of the issues where you may not see your avatar are because of caching. Either in your browser or maybe by an ISP proxy.
A good test is to right click on your avatar here and copy the image location.
Example:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/767f3f0a3ca837b3871b6436a266bc03?s=48&d=identiconThen add
&r=Gto the end of the URL to make it
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/767f3f0a3ca837b3871b6436a266bc03?s=48&d=identicon&r=Gor remove the
&d=identiconto make it
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/767f3f0a3ca837b3871b6436a266bc03?s=48Try loading these different URLs in your browser. They are usually cached differently, even though they point to the same image on the servers. If they are displaying different images, it’s definitely a caching issue and you need to either clear out your browser cache or wait for your ISP’s proxy cache to clear out.
This is also why you might see the new avatar in some places (forums) and the old one in other locations (comments). If the two locations are using different parameters on the URL, one might be cached from before you updated the Gravatar.
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I made my blavatar’s background transparent. But I could never upload it here to WordPress. It never showed in my dashboard and for days it wouldn’t show as the blavatar. So I gave up and uploaded the image with the white background and it worked.
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Okay thank you! I even changed the file name from ico to jpeg. But the background was uploaded with a black background though transparent. But yeah never worked.
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Transparency won’t work? I have a png for my blavatar and favicon. It has transparency. I know transparency won’t work for Gravatars cause I have tried it…but it is working for my blavatar. Go figure!
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Actually my gravatar, the question mark, is transparent. But the same process for me won’t work for my blavatar. Hmmm.
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Okay, I just found out you can have transparency using Gravatars and Blavatars. The gravatar blog actually says so. And I have a transparent png for my blavatar. So I guess transparency is OK!
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