Blavatar and Avatar Problems

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 7:58 am

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  Okay Left a ticket for staff Thanks for your reply Hline,

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 4:48 pm

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  For those who aren’t quite sure what a gravatar is, here’s the WP press release

  WordPress.com Goes Gravatar Crazy

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 4:55 pm

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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 Blavatar

  Thank you Diamond, for posting the Gravatar link. :-)

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 4:58 pm

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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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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:09 pm

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  diamond:

  LOL

  Well I see that my Gravatar shows correctly on the home page
  now I it’s the same here.

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm

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  Darn it, It’s still not Correct. :(

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm

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  Yeah, I now only see a default icon for you.

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm

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  Thank you everyone my issue has been resolved

  To the OP has your issue been resolved ?

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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  Hey Teck! Nice ‘tar!

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 5:18 pm

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  Thanks beemeister,

  It’s my xbox 360, 3D avatar!!!

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Dec 9, 2008 at 6:00 pm

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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=identicon

  Then add

  &r=G

  to the end of the URL to make it

  http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/767f3f0a3ca837b3871b6436a266bc03?s=48&d=identicon&r=G

  or remove the

  &d=identicon

  to make it

  http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/767f3f0a3ca837b3871b6436a266bc03?s=48

  Try 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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  teck07 · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 8:08 pm

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  Thanks for your helpful reply. :)

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  pornstarbabylon · Member · Dec 9, 2008 at 11:15 pm

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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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  nickmomrik · Staff · Dec 10, 2008 at 1:17 am

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  @pornstarbabylon
  Transparency won’t work.

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  pornstarbabylon · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 2:01 am

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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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  beemeister · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 5:23 am

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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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  pornstarbabylon · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 7:50 am

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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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  beemeister · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 5:53 pm

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  That is the inverse of what I have…interesting.

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 9:11 pm

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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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  michelletandoc · Member · Jan 3, 2009 at 6:49 pm

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  Great! Thanks for the explanation.