Update Your Avatar on WordPress.com

Manage, upload, and edit your profile photo at wordpress.com/me.

October 12, 2017

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We’ve given one of our favorite features a boost! You can now manage your profile photo, or avatar, right on WordPress.com. This avatar, powered by a service called Gravatar, is the image that represents you online — a thumbnail that appears next to your name when you interact on blogs and websites. With this recently refined feature, you can upload, edit, and update your avatar at wordpress.com/me.

Your avatar shows up in many places on WordPress.com. For example, you’ll see it on your site next to your blog posts:

And when you like someone’s post:

Or when you comment on a post:

As you can see, your avatar helps to establish your identity and credibility on WordPress.com — but also across the internet. It will also appear on other websites that use Gravatar, like Stack Overflow and Hootsuite. This means that you don’t have to re-upload the same photo multiple times across the web.

How to Update Your Avatar

While logged into your WordPress.com account, go to wordpress.com/me or click your profile icon at the top-right corner of the screen. You’ll see the edit screen for your profile:

From here, you can either click on your photo to change it:

Animated GIF showing clicking the button to change the Gravatar

Or drag and drop a new photo from your computer:

You can also edit the photo — rotate, flip, or crop — before setting or changing it:

Animation showing editing image

When you’re happy with your image, click Change My Photo and you’re all set!

We’ve also made this update for the desktop app. If you have questions, refer to the Gravatars Support page or contact Support for assistance. We look forward to seeing your faces around the web!

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  1. africabookchallenge Oct 12th at 4:15 pm

    Thank you – I just did mine and it was super easy. I had always been confused about where it would show up if I did it on the Gravatar site.

    Liked by 14 people

  2. Ben Aqiba Oct 12th at 4:41 pm

    That is great. Thank you

    Liked by 7 people

  3. Genly Dwi Oct 12th at 4:55 pm

    Favorite with who? What I would like is to be able to set my avatar on my own website(s) without depending on a third party and with the ability to choose whether I used a consistent avatar across networks.

    Liked by 9 people

  4. Piyush Joshi Oct 12th at 5:05 pm

    Very helpful post for me .
    Thanks For Sharing It .
    Now I learn That What is Gravtar And How it is work..
    Gravtar Gives Backlink To Site this Is Important Point you have not added in your article ..

    Liked by 7 people

  5. mrgoodquote Oct 12th at 5:06 pm

    That sounds so easy ! Thnk you .

    Liked by 7 people

  6. adkinsdomain Oct 12th at 5:51 pm

    This is great info! I never really understood what a Gravatar was or the importance of it before.

    Liked by 6 people

  7. Piyush Joshi Oct 12th at 6:22 pm

    Very helpful post.

    Liked by 3 people

  8. Valerie Oct 12th at 8:38 pm

    Oh no, sorry to hear you’re running into trouble! I’m not able to help directly here – would you be able to explain what’s going wrong on our free support forum? It’s here: https://wordpress.com/forums Folks there would be happy to help you get started 🙂

    Liked by 5 people

  9. Crystaleyes20 Oct 13th at 2:30 am

    I’ve been debating on changing mine up…hmmmm…

    Liked by 7 people

  10. HOMEOMART Oct 13th at 5:35 am

    I like this feature, it’s like your insignia on the net.

    Liked by 5 people

  11. Your Aurora Oct 13th at 8:04 am

    Oh thanks. This was so helpful

    Liked by 5 people

  12. aboveuniverseexpress Oct 13th at 8:38 am

    It’s awesome.. It’s easy to use also.

    Liked by 7 people

  13. deepanilamani Oct 13th at 9:32 am

    Some times when we go to do changes some of us do get stuck and confused. You have given a very clear picture on how to do it and also how it is being shown in different places in the blogs.Thank you very much for the guidance 🙂

    Liked by 7 people

  14. Douglas Knight Oct 13th at 12:08 pm

    Thanks for the upgrades that have made posting easier and more fun.

    Liked by 7 people

  15. Radhika Acharya Oct 13th at 2:04 pm

    That was well explained. Thank you.

    Liked by 7 people

  16. Katharine Oct 14th at 12:16 am

    Y’all are too generous! ❤

    Liked by 8 people

  17. Osinakachukwu Wisdom Okoro Oct 14th at 3:54 am

    That’s Great Always Enjoy your update WordPress.Com

    Liked by 5 people

  18. Ankita Biswal Oct 14th at 12:55 pm

    Great

    Liked by 5 people

  19. Agung Rangga Oct 14th at 1:12 pm

    This is a very great feature! Now I can change my Gravatar easily to match with my profile picture in other social media accounts! 😀

    Liked by 4 people

  20. Shawn Ewig Fitness Oct 14th at 5:19 pm

    Thank you for this article! Great stuff!

    Liked by 4 people

  21. vladislalebedev Oct 15th at 3:51 pm

    Cool !!!

    Liked by 3 people

  22. brendaismental Oct 15th at 9:45 pm

    I’m just starting on WordPress, in fact I’ve just started a blog – at least I think I have. I know what I want to talk about and I really want to reach out to others, reading this has given me a little bit of a boost… Thanks

    Liked by 7 people

  23. Dei Bae Oct 16th at 3:37 am

    Thank you for your tips

    Liked by 7 people

  24. Image Earth Travel Oct 16th at 10:12 am

    Thanks for the great informative post!

    Liked by 7 people

  25. Knackered Dad Oct 18th at 10:38 am

    Wunderbar!

    Liked by 4 people

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