If you read a lot of blogs, you’re probably already familiar with gravatars — custom images that represent certain commenters. These images are a kind of personal logo that identifies them and says something about their personality.
Here’s how gravatars work….
A commenter creates an image suitable for a gravatar and uploads it to his account on gravatar.com. The gravatar is rated using pretty much the same ratings as the movie industry: G, PG, R, and X. These ratings are used by bloggers to set limits on the kinds of gravatars that appear on their sites — a gravatar with a G rating will appear everywhere while a gravatar with an X rating may not appear on many blogs at all.
Meanwhile, a blogger (like me) sets up his/her blog to enable it for gravatars. Then, when a commenter submits a comment, the blog’s gravatar plugin (automatic since WordPress 2.5) takes the commenter’s e-mail address (submitted in the comment form) and attempts to find a match at gravatar.com. If it finds a match, it displays the corresponding image. (The e-mail address is not used anywhere in the underlying page code.) If there’s no image on file, the blog software either displays nothing or displays a default image chosen by the blogger.
Do you have a gravatar now? Show it off by entering a brief comment on this post.
Tags: Email, Gravatar, Gravatar.com
Thank you! I couldn’t figure out how to place the link into my blog. Now I fully understand how a gravatar works!
Sure, nice gravatar!
cool!
test
Hope it works
Does it WERK!
Test!
Testing…
I love gravatars!
Will use them for http://www.gmove.mobi as well!
Testing it out. Thanks!
I heard about Gravatars from Mari Smith’s Social Media Guide and am now testing my new Gravatar out to see how it all works!
CHECKING 2 SEE IF THIS THINGS WORKS!!
checking…
I thought it was kinda like magic!
it was realy helpful.
testing
an original comment: testing
testing
loading avatar..hmm..