Image for blog when posting

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  supermurph · Member · Sep 13, 2015 at 1:39 pm

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  Hi

  How do I incorporate an image onto my blog so when I post the main link it has an image with it?

  As an example if you go to switch site, you’ll see a list of blogs you own, I have 4, one of those in the list also shows an image? I don’t remember how I add it!

  Please help!

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 13, 2015 at 2:40 pm

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  Hi there. That image is called the blavatar, and also appears in your browser tab as your site’s favicon.

  To upload the blavatar, go to Settings ->General in the WP-Admin dashboard: https://en.support.wordpress.com/blavatars/

  For best results and to ensure that image is also used when you share on Facebook, use an image around 500 by 500 pixels big.

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  supermurph · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 7:00 am

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  Perfect thank you.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 14, 2015 at 7:07 am

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  Glad I could help :)

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  paulxy96 · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 7:34 am

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  I can’t upload media with my posts, it brings an error message saying “server error 301”.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 14, 2015 at 7:37 am

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  @paulxy96

  Your issue is completely unrelated to this thread. Please start a new thread using this link: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1

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  beelourve · Member · Sep 30, 2015 at 10:34 am

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  Can you do this when using the wordpress free plan?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 30, 2015 at 10:39 am

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  @beelourve
  Are you speaking of the blavatar? Yes, all WordPress.com sites have that option. You don’t need an upgrade to do that. Just follow the instructions in the support doc I linked to above.