Can’t Verify My WordPress URL with Gravatar
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My company’s URL is https://www.health.solutions and when I try to verify the URL with my Gravatar profile it says invalid URL (I’m guessing because it’s not a TLD. Please help me fix this, is there a work around?
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The validation error you are encountering with https://www.health.solutions occurs because Gravatar’s legacy verification filters often fail to recognize newer “niche” top-level domains (gTLDs) like .solutions as valid web addresses. To bypass this, you should try adding a trailing slash to the end of your URL (e.g., https://www.health.solutions/), which often forces the validation regex to parse the string as a complete directory path rather than a malformed file. If the standalone Gravatar editor continues to reject the link, a reliable workaround is to log into your account via WordPress.com (which shares the same profile data) and add the site under Profile Settings → Website Links, as that dashboard uses a more modern validation engine that supports all current TLDs. Once saved there, the verified link will automatically sync back to your Gravatar profile, appearing correctly across the network regardless of the initial TLD restriction.
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The forward slash at the end of the URL does not work either.
I just went to WordPress.com to try and add the new site, the options are: start a new site or bring an existing site. Could you please navigate me with step-by-step instructions on how to add the site?
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I figured it out, thank you for the work-around! You can close this ticket now. Thank you, again.
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