I was a little mystified exactly how to get a Gravatar image working for my local WordPress account (the one I use to post, comment and administer my blog). Turns out it’s a piece of cake – all you need to do is to create a Gravatar account and add an e-mail that matches the e-mail account you use on your self-hosted WordPress server.
Here’s the quick and dirty:
- Head over to Gravatar.com by clicking here: www.gravatar.com.
- Create an account.
- Link the e-mail address that you use on your WordPress blog/server to post/comment; then add your picture/logo/etc. to Gravatar. Hint: if you use multiple accounts on your own WordPress site or other sites that use Gravatar, you can simply add the e-mails for those accounts to display the same Gravatar image that you uploaded.
- In my experience your new Gravatar won’t appear without you adding a comment to any blog post. I added one, saw my picture displayed, then immediately deleted the comment. At that time all my existing comments (some from years/months prior) displayed my new Gravatar image.
Boom-shaka-laka! You’re done.
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See I swear it works! Look at my picture… I’m on a boat M*&&@#f*(*er!
Really helpful, man. Thanks
Just what I needed to know, cheers dude.
Thanks Mike! I will try it now
Thanks Mike!
I’m not sure if Mine is working, let’s see.
Thanks a lot
this saved me a lot of time
RM
Testing this out
Testing!
I made a gravatar profile same email as my self hosted wordpress email, and its not working
Any suggestions.
nevermind. I had to approve the comment on wordpress first. I’m new to this stuff, but I got it to work! thanks.
testing testing…. 123
lets see if this works
For some reason this hasn’t been working for me but I just tried deleting the verified wordpress from my gravatar account and re-adding it. Let’s see if that worked…
Fixed it
I accidentally made my gravatar account using wordpress.com instead of just making a generic account.