Go Get A Blavatar
December 2, 2008
Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars.
“What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars.
As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in a browser’s web address bar. It’ll also show up next to your pingbacks in the comments section of other blogs.
To get a blavatar for your blog, just go to Settings in your dashboard and upload an image as your Blog Picture. After you upload, you can crop as you like. Save and you’re all set.
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Sweet, really glad WP.com users can now make their own Favicon’s, but I’ve moved to WordPress.org, so it doesn’t really affect me. Great idea WordPress though!
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kewl beans!
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yay! thanks for this! I’m going to go make one right now–as soon as I watch the video to see how!
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Fantástico! Gracias WordPress.com!
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This is great !!!
Thanks for adding this feature.
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I’d been looking for something like this for quite some time now. Thanks a lot WordPress!
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Thank you for this great feature!!! 🙂
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Yes! I better get to uploading my blavatar right now.
Thanks for this!
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Wow! Cool updates. I’m loving to use my own favicons.
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Thuper!
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I’t works…
finally…
Me very, very happy!
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Nicely done
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Geat mates. Always on the top 😉
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Interesting and thanks.
~MadSilence
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Thanks
I am trying now…
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that’s so cool 🙂
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oh, yeah. that’s definately cool
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Chuck Norris? The man, the myth… the um… the 3rd rate actor and telecrap hawker… the ignorant religious zealot and fascist neocon ? Nice pick!
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Wootie-tootie. Getting mine right now.
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That is very nifty. Now I have this overwhelming urge to ping.
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great! thanks!!
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Awesome!
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Thank you for exciting Blavatars
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Wow ^_^
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Oh man! This is GREAT!!!!
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Ummm…. I guess this is cool…
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This is great! Thanks!!! You guys are the BEST!
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nice :D~
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By the way, I notice that these comments are in reverse order – newest first. Is that option coming too?
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Ah, cool. Thanks y’all.
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Looks good to me!
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Oh wow. This is pretty awesome. Thanks for much for this. 😛
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wait, is this a new feature? I thought you could already do this. …now I’m confused.
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Definitely a great feature! I’m gonna get an image to put up in my blog now! 🙂
~Kyetsu
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Aah! This is really cool. Just checked a blog with blavatar! That’s really interesting.
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Unless I missed something in the video, this feature isn’t all that new. I started my blog in October & added my avatar the same day. So it’s at least a couple months old. Very easy to do though. You can use your own picture or clip art, or you can find an online avatar maker & create your own cartoon you.
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Avatars are different from Blavatars. You change your avatar under Edit Profile in the My Account menu, and this appears as your icon next to comments and in the Author widget. Blavatars are set under Settings > General and appear in your browser and in pingbacks.
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That blavatar for chuck really looks like mine!!! :@
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Sweet, qiuckly everyone update your blavatars before it is too late!!!!!
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I the the people at wordpress never sleep or something. very nice, I will definately have to get my self one them blavatar things.
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i just went to settings to change something, and i found the blavatar! mine is a penguin
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
You have no idea how much I so effing wanted to have my own favicon!!!
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Great!
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This is awesome. Thanks!!
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This is a cool feature! Thanks, WP! 🙂
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Awesome!! Thanks so much for this!
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You guys are the best ^.^
Thanks !!!
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Excelente!
Muchas gracias WordPress!
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Wow great feature!
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I found out from the start, just some days after I made my blog, all by myself, is this supposed to be difficult? .. or am I special? 😛
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You likely uploaded an avatar, not a blavatar. Please see my comment above for an explanation of the differences between the two.
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Cool deal, I’ll give it a try.
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OMFG I-LOVE-IT, but not Chuck Norris (just had to clear that up)
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Cool, I like how you guys think. Keep it up.
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This is awesome!!! Thanks WordPress, I’m setting up my Blavatar right now! :’D
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Thanks for this, after years asking finally we got it ! 😀
Just one feature request: could it work the transparency ? I tried uploading a png with alpha layer and in the final favicon got a white background 😦
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this aint nothin’ new people.
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I couldn’t see the video in Google Reader.
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What a great concept. Wow, WordPress keeps coming up with more things all the time!
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Nice!
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Yes, I’ve been looking for this feature. Going to try it now!
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Woohoo! Thank you so much!
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What a nice feature! Never had time to go get a favicon, now it’s almost immediately done, thanks a lot, WP
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Dude, Chuck Norris is so 2005.
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Wonderful! Thanks!
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That’s so Cool!
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Yesss! This has been a recurring request on the FAQ page.
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oops! I did it again:) I checked it out, and it worked. thanx!
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This is awesome!
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Blavatars ROK!
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If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Chuck Norris. 😀
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For me it is like the first Christmas gift. Thanks 😀
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Very cool indeed – thanks!
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Very neat! Thank u very much!
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WOW!!!! Very very Thanks WordPress! Really good idea.
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cool! I’ve been waiting for this stuff.
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Love my Blovitard
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Thanks for instituting this! It makes me so happy.
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Yes! Favicons! Thank you so much!
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wow, this is great…
thanks….
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That looks great! Creating a Favicon is quite complicated, but this seems to be very easy!
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This is cool, I like the feature.
Thanks!!
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wheee 😀
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Gonna make it now…
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Thank you
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Thank you, great Blavatar
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Blavatar? We don’t need no stinking blavatar.
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Cool! Can you change it periodically or are you stuck with one?
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Great Job. WP is the best.
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What’s next?
Lavatar – animated gif of a lava lamp
Tartavatar – random meat images
Pravatar – Your name in Hindi
Javatar – Animated java image, rotating in 3D
Flavatar – Same, but in Flash
Olavatar – Scented images
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yey!t thanks WP!
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Yay ^__^ thank you!
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Oh for heaven’s sake. Could you have come up with a worse name?
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Nicely done! This finally closes the last gap that was remaining with “blog branding”.
We can now finally have a uniformed “set” look when people visit out sites.
Thank you, and as usual: You guy/girls rock!!!
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