Amongst all the Weblins madness of last month (don’t get me started on this, ‘paradigm shift…’) I added a little wordpress feature called ‘Gravatars’, nice colourful faces to the comments. Nothing really ‘new’ to the world but I liked it well enough to make a post about it.
Gravatar aims to be the ‘globally recognised avatar’ adding a picture to ‘where-ever you go’ and help you create a consistent image of yourself throughout multiple blogs. See my and dandellions gravatar *here* or look to the side for the new ‘recent comments’ widget.
Sign up is easy, simply go to gravatar.com, enter your email address (gravatar is owned by Automattic, the company behind wordpress), upload a picture, and you’re set. Just enter the same email address when commenting and look at that pretty smiling 80 by 80 picture decorating your comments. Apart from Gravatar the plug-in I used support a range of social profile pictures, including myBlogLog.
(Feel free to test your gravatar in the comments underneath this post)
UPDATE: Completed the redesign of the comments, links in the names should be working now, and made it look a bit more organised I think. Thanks for all the comments so far!
Posted on: May 15, 2008 | Share on:
OnlineTeacher
said on May 15th
Tnx digado b/c I had forgotten I already had an account @gravatar but had not uploaded a pic. All done now *:-)
Daniella Chronos
said on May 16th
My Gravatar!
Armswood
said on May 16th
Seeing this pop up more and more so I’ll have a go…
Armswood
said on May 16th
Oops, misspelled my own email x(
Digado | Mapping the Metaverse
said on May 16th
looking good you three, nice to put some faces to the commenters, even virtual ones :)
Linda Vanderhoeven
said on May 16th
I’ll add mine here as well then, I love the looking up of Daniella’s picture!
Seems your placeholder is broken though, just showing a blank spot? I think there is a way to change this picture (using Gravatar myself as well)
Digado | Mapping the Metaverse
said on May 16th
Thanks Linda, very stylish Gravatar there. Looking into that placeholder now. Also need to move that line a littlebit, don’t like it all locked up against the avatar.