Avatars
Avatar, Blavatar, Image, Profile, User
An avatar is an important part of your online representation of yourself, usually a picture of you that shows up in places where you leave comments or forum posts.
On WordPress.com, we use Gravatar to associate an avatar with a user and their account. If you have setup a Gravatar, it will be displayed when you post to the forums, when you comment on blogs, and if your post is display in the WordPress.com community features.
A Blavatar is a term we came up with by combining Blog + Avatar. A Blavatar is an image associated with a blog. It will be displayed as the favicon for your blog, which shows up in a browser’s address bar and on browser tabs. It will show up in the comments section of a blog if you send out any pingbacks. If anyone creates a shortcut to your blog on their iPhone it will also be used as the icon there.
How-to: Set up a personal Gravatar
How-to: Set up a blog avatar
Last modified: December 30, 2009
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