If you regularly leave or read comments on blogs then you will be aware of the concept of an avatar, if not then here’s Wikipedia’s basic definition “An avatar is a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego”. Put basically, it’s the image that appears next to your entry in a forum or comment on an article. Avatars can vary in size but most are between 50×50 to 100×100 (pixels) most are square shaped although this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.
Recently Gravatar has given the ability to have a consistent avatar throughout the vast majority of the web by connecting it to your email address.
- Navigate to Gravatar.com
- Select the ‘sign up’ link, either from the top of the page or from within the copy
- Enter your email address to receive the following message
- Upon receiving your email you’ll be asked to click on a link which will take you to the following screen
- Once completed simply upload your desired picture and that is it! Gravatar even allows you to add more than one email address should you have more and assign a different image to each.
Changing the Size of Avatars on Wordpress
Avatars are automatically added on wordpress blogs but if you wish to increase or decrease the size of the avatars that show up in your comments sections then simple navigated to the edit themes section of wordpress, select your comments.php file and add the following code wp_list_comments('avatar_size=60'); within php tags, into the ordered list identified with the class ‘commonlist’ substituting 60 for whatever size in pixels that you would like your avatars to appear as. It’s that easy.
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I thought about starting my own blog too but I’m just too lazy so, I guess I‘ll just have to keep checking yours out.
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