Can’t change avatar

djn25 · Member · Mar 4, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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I want to change my avatar… but I can’t find the place to enter in what photo I want to use… Its nowhere in the Edit Profile page!

Help?
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 4, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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djn25
Please provide a link to your blog starting with:
http://
bobmonahon · Member · Mar 7, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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Hi – I’ve got the same problem. My Blog is at: http://BobMonahon.WordPress.com
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 7, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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users > your profile > change your gravatar (on the top right of the screen) > choose from this list:
Change your Gravatar / Avatar

* Upload a new image from your computer
* Use your webcam to take a snapshot of yourself
* Give us a link to a picture online to use
* Use your last WordPress.com Avatar (if you had one)
eblanken · Member · Mar 9, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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I’ve tried this many times and all it does is pop up a little loading bar and never changes. I can never select anything. Am I just not waiting long enough?

http://eblanken.wordpress.com/

I just have that weird little blue icon thing.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 9, 2009 at 6:25 pm
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You are probably not waiting long enough. And make sure the image you’re uploading isn’t huge, or isn’t a type of file that’s not supported. A jpg usually works; a bmp never does.
eblanken · Member · Mar 10, 2009 at 1:07 am
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It never changes from the little loading bar. I’ve waited over five minutes for this and nothing seems to work. Is it a Mac issue? Safari issue? I very much dislike Firefox so don’t tell me to install that junk.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 10, 2009 at 1:16 am
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I have not changed my gravatar recently, so it’s been months, but I remember something like what you are describing. If I recall correctly, I went directly to
http://gravatar.com/
That may or not help you?
eblanken · Member · Mar 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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That helped a lot. Worked very quickly. Thanks a lot.
danari · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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I can’t change my avatar. I uploaded a new picture and this shows up on my profile, but when I post it shows the old one.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 6:56 pm
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We can’t help if you don’t tell us what’s the old picture and what is the new one.
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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While logged into wordpress, go to http://gravatar.com and upload it there. The wordpress avatar thing seems to be broken, or at the very least severely bent.
danari · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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That didn’t work either. I’m trying to change it to the sunflower picture, but whenever I post on my blog it shows up as the old picture of my eye.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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We see the flower picture.

This is most likely the same old story: avatars take different times to upload in different places across WP.com. They show up first here in the forums. After some hours, they will show up on your new comments.
jennylbailey · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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I can’t upload a gravatar either. When I click on the gravatar.com icon, I just get a white page with “Please close this window if it does not close automatically” at the top of the page. The botton left screen reads “done”. Is it an Internet Explorer compatability issue? I use Vista.

My blog address is https://jennylbailey.wordpress.com.

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