Someone using my name and email and gravatar to post comments
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Someone recently left a comment on my blog using my name and email address, which is available on my blog. However my gravatar also showed up. How can this happen? I don’t know who this person is.
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Hi there, your email address is your unique identifier for your gravatar so if somone uses your account email address when leaving a comment, your gravatar will show up there.
If you list your email address on your website, it’s better to use a different email address and not the same one that is connected to your account.
In general for assistance with your WP site, you’ll want to head over to https://wordpress.org/support/ where you’ll find documentation and users who have more experience with the software you are using. If you don’t have a username on the ORG forums you can register one on the top of that page.
Just to clarify, this support forum assists users with free websites hosted on the WPcom platform. For more information on the differences: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/
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So I’ve removed the email that appears on my blog from my Gravatar account, but the Gravatar is still showing up when I try a test comment? Do I need to wait a bit for it to update?
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Email is (email visible only to moderators and staff) and I’ve removed that from my Gravatar account, but the Gravatar icon is still showing up when I test comment with the email.
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That’s the primary email address on your account, so you won’t be able to remove it without adding a new email address and choosing it as primary via https://en.gravatar.com/emails/
Alternatively, just choose the “Remove image” option there.
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The email is not on my gravatar account and a different email has already been selected as primary. Is there any way I can send you a screenshot?
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I don’t want to remove the image because I still want it to show up when I comment with a different email. I just don’t want a stranger beinf able to comment/pose as me.
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We’re talking about the Gravatar for
wting24, correct?
It doesn’t look like the email for that account was changed. -
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