What is a Gravatar?
Everyone by default receives a custom Gravatar however it’s much better to add your own. Let’s do that now! How To Get Your Own Personal And Custom Gravatar Things you’ll need:
An email address you’ll use for all the sites you post comments onA Photo
- Visit http://gravatar.com/ and Click the Get your Gravatar today button.
2. On the next page Enter your Email address and Click Signup.
3. An email will be sent to confirm, Open your email and Click the Activation link.
4. The link should take you to the activation page, here Type in the desired Username using lowercase letters and numbers, no spaces or punctuation. Then enter a password you would like to use for your Gravatar account.
5. Now you need to assign a custom image. Click Add one by clicking here!
6. Next, you need to choose where you’d like to get your image. In my case, I’m going to pull mine from my Facebook profile image, so I’m going to select An image on the internet.
7. Input your image/image location and Click Next.
8. Chances are your image isn’t a perfect square, so here you can Crop your image using the dotted box on the left. The Small preview and Large preview is how your final Gravatar will look. Click Crop and Finish! when done.
9. Next, Click an ACCURATE rating for your Gravatar. With that in mind, please keep them rated G or PG for use on groovyPost.com and just about any other helpful website on the Internet; you would not want to risk having your comments/Gravatar revoked.
All done! Now whenever you post a comment on a website just use the same email you used when setting up your Gravatar and your groovy avatar will display next to your name if the site supports it. Feel free to test it out below, in the groovyPost comments!
Also — did you upload a picture to the gravatar account? I’ve checked it a few times, and it’s still not pulling my gravatar. I did upload the picture, and on “Manage Gravatars” (on their site) all appears well, email and pic look fine on there. It just doesn’t display on GroovyPost. No biggie, just one of those things that I occasionally gnaw at. I think it might have to do with a third party cookie issue… may look at that, I’ll let you know if that ends up fixing it. Thx! Comment Name * Email *
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