The Gravatar Issue

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  theonlyaamir · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 5:12 am

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  So it turns out, whenever someone likes a post on your blog, you see those tiny images but they always lead to the person’s Gravatar profile. How does one find their WordPress blog link? It seems 90% of people don’t post up their blog info on their Gravatar profile.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 2:34 pm

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  The way I do it (though it doesn’t always work, as not everyone’s username is the same as their blog URL) is to do type this into my address bar:

  usernamefoundingravatar.wordpress.com

  replacing ‘usernamefoundingravatar’ with the actual username you’ve found in their gravatar profile!

  And yes, I totally agree with you, 90% of people don’t post their blog info in their Gravatar profile. It’s very frustrating but a lot of people don’t realise that it doesn’t get there automatically!
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  theonlyaamir · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 7:50 pm

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  They should definitely do something about it, I mean how are you supposed to link back to them?

  The only way I see right now is the method you specified and the notifications which show up on the top-right. The notifications work somewhat as they provide links to their blogs, but then again you can’t access older notifications.

  Maybe they should make a section within the dashboard where you can see all your notifications.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 7:54 pm

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  There are privacy issues. For example, there are some people who have “masked domains” ie. private domain registration. There are others who have only gravatar or WordPress.com usernames and no blogs.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 9:51 pm

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  How would having private domain registration affect info on a gravatar? People choose what to put in their profile, don’t they?

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 9:53 pm

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  @sgroup2 – you ask “how are you supposed to link back to them?” The answer is – you’re not supposed to. The ‘Like’ is just that – someone saying that they like your post. It’s useful for people who haven’t time or can’t think of what to say in a comment. That’s all, really.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 25, 2012 at 10:40 pm

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  @absurdoldbird
  I have noticed some people who are known to me as having blogs on their own domains do not choose to include links to their blogs on their gravatar profile pages.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Apr 26, 2012 at 12:35 am

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  @tt – that’s curious. I can’t see the connection really, I’ll have to think about it as I was thinking of getting a private domain registration myself (and possibly later transferring to a self-hosted account, but not immediately) but I can’t see that having a link to a blog in a profile would be any problem.