How do I get that thumbnail avatar image thing on comments??
December 9, 2009 | 11:23 pm ShareAre you a regular blog readers that comment on a lot of blogs, especially Wordpress blogs (like Caramelz.my), and wonder why some people has some cool looking avatar image while you don’t?
I used to ask that question too! Having a profile image of yourself (avatar) wherever you go to any blog or forum and comment is pretty cool, right? You don’t have to upload one each time, and it makes your comment instantly recognizable!
For Blogger users, the avatar for the comments on Blogspot blogs comes from the profile image of your Blogger profile. But since Wordpress blogs are growing in such widespread popularity, a smart guy created a system that recognizes an avatar to be displayed based on the mail you’ve typed in for your comments on any blog or forum, especially Wordpress.
The smart guy is called Tom Werner, and the system is called Gravatar.
Dubbed “Globally Recognized Avatar”, Gravatar is the system used by most Wordpress blogs to get a thumbnail image of yourself, your Avatar! Simple 3 minutes sign-up, and you can get an avatar like mine! Woohoo!
How does Gravatar work?
My Gravatar!
The idea is fairly easy. After you signed up on Gravatar, you will be able to assign an image thumbnail to an email account, so whenever you go comment on a blog or anywhere, and if the blog or anywhere supports Gravatar, it will retrieve the image from the Gravatar site and uses that as your avatar.
What’s more, you can have a number of different emails in one account, so you can actually assign a number of thumbnails to different emails, and when you use different emails to comment on different places they will appear as what you’ve assigned!
Lets say you got an email for the normal cheeky cheeky blogs, and you want to display an innocent image of yourself over there. Then you have an email specially for the kinky porn sites and you want to show your sexiest face there. Yurp, you can!
You can also assign the rating for your Gravatar for G rated to PG, R and X rated. Well, you know what they mean right? If you’re on a site that does not allow X rated Gravatar and you used the email accidently, Gravatar will automatically look for a G rated avatar that you’ve assigned to be used. Thank God!
So how to I get started
Well, as usual, lend me 3 minutes of your time and let this introduction video from Gravatar to show you how it works, and how to register an account.
Yurp, registration barely takes 5 minutes, and you will get an avatar image to be used everywhere! Well, at least for most Wordpress blogs. ;)
If you got a Gravatar already but curious on how do you intergrate it to your blog to display the Gravatar of your readers on their comments, read here! Supports Wordpress, Movable Type, Joomla, Drupal, and yes, even Blogger!
But why am I promoting Gravatar all the sudden?
Well, I’m an avid blog hopper, and I visit a number of blogs. Many times I see that the Gravatar on the comments are the famous grey anonymous guy for many commentators, so I guess a lot of people still don’t know about this service yet! It is a very useful service to get you easily recognized on many of the blogs, so why not get one?
In case you’re wondering, yes, the comments on Caramelz.my is Gravatar enabled, so if you want to see a picture of yourself other than the grey anonymous guy, consider getting a Gravatar account.
Actually, it’s my secret plot so that I can know how handsome and pretty my readers are who comments on this blog, but don’t tell anyone, okay?
I hope to see less grey commentators on my blog soon! :D
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Comments (36)
ericlee
December 9th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
lol…grey anonymous is kinda cool to me wut…LOL….people wun need to judge my looks…haha
Dhar
December 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
wahahaha I'm too ugly! I think you're better off seeing the grey guy, since you like to be called Grey too :) HAHAH! But I'm going to check that website right away to see what it's all about… Heard of it before but never really went about to getting signed up HEHE!!
Dhar
December 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
omg i think the grey guy looked much better than my now face lah hmph :( sad.
foongpc
December 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Oh, yes Gravatar is fantastic!
foongpc
December 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Do you like my panda gravatar? Hehe
Dora
December 10th, 2009 at 12:11 am
hey u really do some research there! Thx for the info :-)
cassie
December 10th, 2009 at 1:59 am
nice idea.. i might try it this weekend… (at office T.T* )
conancat
December 10th, 2009 at 2:16 am
hor, at office online? notti lar u :P haha
conancat
December 10th, 2009 at 2:18 am
haha no problem dora! glad you find that informative :D
Grey Ang
December 10th, 2009 at 2:18 am
haha the panda is really kyoote! :D i love it!
Grey Ang
December 10th, 2009 at 2:19 am
haha well you can always choose another picture wert! :P make it until it's right!
Grey Ang
December 10th, 2009 at 2:19 am
haha well from what i know you should be quite a handsome guy ma, should show it off ok! :P
cassie
December 10th, 2009 at 3:01 am
hmm.. weird.. i just found i hav an account at gravatar ages ago.. wahaha.. never realise.. haha..
btw.. not notti lar.. just a bit free now ma.. how's ur leg btw..
conancat
December 10th, 2009 at 4:19 am
haha liddat oso can xD so u upload ur thumbnail liao oledi anot? :P my leg ah, better now lor… have to go back checkup in 2 weeks time, haih!
serious_sam_hk
December 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
ar….
how ocme the format of ur comment keep on changing de/??
Grey Ang
December 10th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
got keep on changing meh D: now using the intense debate one, i think if you don’t have javascript enabled it will revert back to the normal one, lol.
conancat
December 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
haha well sure! add me on msn, conan_cat87@hotmail.com. it's pretty easy, really! :D
GarfieldWTF
December 10th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
glad to see another article about gravatar!
lots of ppl just use gravatar but never share
:)
i really hope that more ppl will write about gravatar
:)
conancat
December 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
hehe yeah! always good to see people starting to use Gravatar, the grey image isn't really nice! :D
cassie
December 11th, 2009 at 1:11 am
take care wor.. dun walk too much XD haha…
btw, my thumbnail upload last last time adi.. i just found.. woahohahah…
conancat
December 11th, 2009 at 7:11 am
eh quite nice ma this thumbnail! nice nice! :D
GarfieldWTF
December 11th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
yeah, my old Gravatar article, no one bother to read at all.
And my OpenID articles, no one even care to read to know what is it.
Instead, those crappy things I write, they like them and posted a lot comments.
I am wondering wat is going on with Malaysian nowadays for refuse to learn and accept something new and just stay on to something which is not benefit them in terms of knowledge.
conancat
December 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
way true! i totally agree with you at that! apparently a lot of Malaysians are into brainless and crappy blog posts, the more brainless and more camwhore it involves the more popular it is. i've seen posts with the title "read this!!" and filled with a dozen of pictures of themselves in various poses followed with a "LOL" and they get a hell lot of comments. like, argh!
i like ur OpenID articles btw! needed to learn how to make it work for me! :D
Jayce
December 12th, 2009 at 2:26 am
You won't see grey guy but me from my comment. ;)
Grey Ang
December 12th, 2009 at 11:08 am
yay! great! i hope everyone is like you Jayce! :D
kenwooi
December 12th, 2009 at 7:42 am
gravatar!!
p/s: intensedebate? haha.. just noticed it.. =P
conancat
December 12th, 2009 at 9:26 am
yeah, intense debate now xD hahaha
GarfieldWTF
December 12th, 2009 at 9:59 am
yeah, some of them is ok, example like kenwooi, he always write about social awareness things and something useful.
but most of the bloggers nowadays is just like writing diary for public to read only.
no contents, but full of pictures with some "caption" of the pictures as the text only.
anyway, about the OpenID part 3, it was scheduled to be auto post at after Christmas. I already finish write. currently will post about something else 1st, coz i see a lot of readers already get bored about I keep on write about OpenID, hehehee
conancat
December 13th, 2009 at 3:55 am
haha okay! i will definitely check out your open ID article when it's out :D lets not be the pictures+captions type of blogger! :D
GarfieldWTF
December 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
lol
hope other ppl will think like this.
but apparently no….
i dunno wat the hell is wrong with malaysian lah…..
conancat
December 14th, 2009 at 12:16 am
haha… patience my friend, patience. :P
GarfieldWTF
December 14th, 2009 at 9:55 am
:)
my clients usually also behave like this.
when i suggest Linux or any Unix systems, the still want Windows server.
when they tangan gatal go and use the Windows server to online and kena virus, they come and say i set not good.
i already told them if want to avoid virus, go for any Unix family OS, but they dun listen.
damn tulan
conancat
December 14th, 2009 at 11:54 am
lol… susah betul lar xD linux is the way to go if you wanna be virus-free, because there are rarely any linux viruses at all, lol. well clients are made from hell, really! even the design line i oso meet clients that won't listen, argh!!
clients who think they know things are better than design that don't know anything. xD
GarfieldWTF
December 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
yeah, they acquire consultation service, but they keep on insist that they know more, then why the fuck do they spend the money to pay for a consultation lar.
anyway, malware will only be exist in the Linux/BSD/Mac/Other Unix if the user is so stupid enough to compile and run the malware codes him/herself. which is rarely happen, coz most of the Linux/BSD/Mac/Other Unix users usually know what they are doing. unless is a sabotaj. so pay the sysadmin better salary, hahhahaha
conancat
December 15th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
lol who knows, some users might actually really be that dumb lor! xD but no lar… i think linux users are mostly computer proficient people who knows what they're doing as you said, and they probably know everything about malware and virus already, lol. so much for people who wants things to be easy and dont want to hire a system admin and technicians to do the work, in the end kena themselves all the virus xD bauhwahwahwa!
javad
January 11th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
cool http://www.psd2wordpress.co.uk
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