How to Change WordPress Avatar using WP-Gravatar

Guide to Modifying your WordPress Advatar

There are a lot of different ways to change your WordPress Avatar. This article focuses on the easiest way and I believe the best way. Note: if you don't know what a wordpress plugin is here are two articles that you should read first:Click on this link  to read our  WordPress Plugin How to Guide

The WP-Gravatar Plugin for Avatars!.

The WP-Gravatar allows you to change and set your gravatar and does a lot of other cool things. Here is info from their list of functionality:

• Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID with the comments section
• Let's you set your own CSS style to use with the Comments section and the author about box.
• Gives you a Widget with your profile info and your gravatar
• Use an Author Profile box in the sidebar if your theme does not support Widgets.
• Gives you your Gravatar with every blog post (always top left of post in 20px*20px)
• Gives you the option to show an about the author box with posts shown on single page
• Makes Gravatars from users with no blog/url link back to your own site.
• Lets you set a default gravatar to use on your site for users that don't have a gravatar
• Recent Comments Widget that shows Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID (in 20px*20px not changeable by user)
• Makes use of favicon.ico of the users site, if the user don't have a Gravatar.
• Let's you show the Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID avatars in the Edit Comment section of your admin pages.
• Let's you set the size of the Gravatar, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID and MyBlogLog avatars

Instructions for using WP-Gravatar

Basic How to install and use WP Gravatars:

1. You can find the WP-Gravatar by searching for it in plugins in add new plugins in your wordpress admin dashboard and do the standard click to install procedure.

OR YOU CAN  DO THE FOLLOWING

1. Upload gravatars.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Once you have installed the plugin thru either of the 2 methods above you then:

1. Go to the Presentation menu to change your settings.
2. Set your default gravatar
3. If you want to use the Profile Widget, you HAVE to set the USER ID and choose to use the widget, before placing the widget in the sidebar! If you don't do this, you will most likely get an mySQL error!

About the WP-Gravatar Plugin:

The WP-Gravatar plugin Author is Rune_Gulbrandsoy.

The Plugins Home page is :http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-gravatar/

The Current release is

• Version: 2.7.1
• Last Updated: 2008-5-1
• Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher
• Compatible up to: 2.6

This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments. But thats not all, scroll down to see what else this plugin does for your site. The plugin has been tested on version 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3 and 2.5. Should work on all versions from 2.1 and upwards. It will also detect the Prologue theme from Automattic.

This plugin does:

You can click on this link to go to our main page and read more articles like this WordPress Gravatar Guide!

OK thats it for this article!