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
hope it works
does it works
Wahey!
Just created a Gravatar. Not sure if it works?
Giving the gravatar a trial run
Testing gravatar
Photography up.
Testing Gravatar
Let’s see if it works
Let’s check this out.
Hi, testing out my gravatar
test
hmm…
Testing Gravatar.
Thank you for the easy to understand guide to Gravatar.