New Feature: Avatars
August 30, 2006
On your profile you can now upload an image to be associated with your account, also known as an avatar.
We’re still rolling out the places these will show up, but for now you can see them in the comments section of this blog.
Why not upload an avatar and then leave a comment to show it off? Any ideas for how we can use avatars?
Update: You asked for it, you got it. There are now avatars in the latest posts, tag surfer, and my comments pages.
Update 2: There are now avatars in the forums.
Update 3: The Mac Daddy has written a great tutorial on the feature.
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- August 30, 2006
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I’m having trouble CHANGING my avatar. Several times I’ve uploaded a new one, it sticks for a while, and then a while later my avatar reverts to the original file. What’s going on?
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You know what would be awesome?
If there was a per-blog option to display the avatar of post author. This would be really good for multiple-author blogs like http://frambojan.wordpress.com
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schweet!
mine’s not showing up in the forums yet, but i trust it’ll get there eventually.
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Nice touch
I hope you realise how much work you’ve created for yourselves now everyone will want avatars on EVERYTHING
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Cool Feature! Thanks a lot.
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testing, testing…
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uh huh
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verrrrrrry cool!
Thanks!
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I’m just testing my own avatar. You, guys, do really great things!
Thanks. 🙂
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I’m testing again!
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Yay Avatar!
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Too bad that avatars do not show up with trackbacks yet.
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Very cool, now we just need access to plug-ins…
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Great idea ! thanks a lot ! I’m just testing. My avatar was succesfull upload in section profile, but I don’t see it anywhere. ????? I’m using theme “connection 1.0”.
It’s my first blog. It’s was hard at the beginning, but thanks to wp, I just did it !
Sorry for language errors, my language is french (Switzerland).
Bye
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This is a really cool feature!
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Please consider making our avatars favicons!
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ooh, pretty avatars. Thumbs up!
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Mad cool. Now just to find a good avatar, I’ll be playin with this for a while. Thanks again.
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GREAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!1
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nice addition
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Very cool.
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I just uploaded mine….I’m just testing too…Cool new feature!
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Nice!
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Nifty! This just keeps getting funner all the time!
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I get to try too!
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:grin:Lovely!
Thanks for coming up with a feature that I was wishing for!
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Cool beans 🙂
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Very nice!, it was time to! =)
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Very Cool!
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I have to say…I like it! It’s another good option to help identify us to each other, and helps build the WordPress community. That’s a good thing.
Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
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This is a great idea from our friends at WordPress! It makes the blogs just that little bit more personal. Thanks!
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Just test my avatar.
How we can use it at our own blog?
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We’re going to begin adding them to the theme templates soon.
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Yep! I’ll be getting right on that. 😉
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Brilliant!!! Love the idea ;-D How about if my avator was visible on other blog sites as well and not only in my blog … would be nice if it was.
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It’s the unpredictable little add-ons like this which make me love WordPress.com, guys.
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that’s great! thnx 🙂
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I don’t smile friendly enough to post my own picture for an avatar! (Yes. I face too many unnecessary hurdles in life due to this problem.)
Any suggestions for avatars, other than my own mug?
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ooh – pretty….
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Nice! Whoever it was that had this Brilliant idea deserves a round of applause *stands up and Applauds*
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Avatars are great idea, except I always need some assistance picking a good one.
Good job.
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wurd.
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Excellent move. I was wondering why WordPress didn’t have them. You guys are on it!
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Cool
can’t wait to have a template with my Avatar on 🙂
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thats awesome
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It would be nice to have as an option for the sidebar
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Hot dog…. Nice deal. Another way to drive people to wordpress.com. 🙂
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Neat!
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Very cool! Thanks WordPress!
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I can’t wait till this feature is available for my blog!
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Love this idea.
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Neat!
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Woohoo!! 🙂
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Good move.
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Thanks!
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CAYOOOOOOO !!
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This new avatar idea is really awesome. You can never go wrong with avatars can you hehe. It would really be cool if somehow they could get integrated into the comments on ppls blogs, or on their blogs in some other way.
That would be cool, keep it up guys!
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Way Cool!
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WOO HOO! Finally!!! WordPress finally is officially da bomb!
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I can’t wait till they start appearing in our own blogs (comments and posts). ^_^ Cheers!
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nice
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pretty good going Matt!! 🙂
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Nice one, thats why I choose wordpress, or was it ’cause it is f****** 1337?
I realy can’t remember. 😛
Cheers
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*fun*
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de pelos!!
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I’m using this to test the avatar, which, hitheto, appears to be invisible.
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Genial, espero poder usarlo pronto en otros sitios.
Saludos
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Coolness!
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1337!
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I now have an avatar. I am quite possibly the coolest person ever. Thanks, WordPress.com!!!
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Terrific! Can’t wait for the full rollout!
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Thank you guys!!!! I love these things 🙂
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Me like!
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[Request] could you also add an option to integrate Gravatar?
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Excellent, thank you!
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I LIVVVVVE!!!!!!
Love me, Fear Me, Elect me as your Dark Overlord!
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From LIFE’S ILLUSIONS:
Sounds like a great idea. Now if a techno blockhead like me can work out how to get my pic next to my posts … (I mean, IS that the idea?)
http:/www.zaranda.wordpress.com
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Cool! Like everybody I’m commenting here to have a look at my avatar.
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Cute idea … though might be a bit much if they end up on all our blog comments. Especially as most of them will probably end up being question marks.
I’m still hoping for a comment preview button … (hint hint)
But I don’t mean to sound ungrateful – I really love WordPress and all the new stuff you keep doing for us. People keep asking me if I’m getting a commission from you guys …
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Me encanta este nuevo gadget :), thank you very much.
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mm… Excellent! thank you!!!
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Hey folks you should start seeing avatars show up in a few of the themes now.
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awesome! thanks!!!!
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I like it. But can we have it show up on the sidebar near our ‘about’ section? 🙂 Pretty please.
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@brenda: you can create a text item in you widgets that holds some html. Simply include an img-tag to your own avatar. The url to your avatar is:
So, your avatar should show up as
Was this of any help?
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Thank you so much!!
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nice touch.
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That’s absolutely amazing! Thanks for the avatar!!! Yay!:grin:
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Ok, works fine. Will people who comment and have a gravatar, see it appear next to their comment ?
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Fabulous! Keep up the awesome work!!
~TC
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Does anyone have a list of what themes support avatars?
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I love you guys.
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I barely have enough time to just type my blog entry and now you want me to find a picture and upload it? AAAAAAAaaaaaaaIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!
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