Chris Pirillo on Gravatar
May 29, 2008 | Posted by apokalyptik
We recently came across this screencast that Chris made: Is your Avatar a Gravatar? and we think he did a terrific job of breaking down what gravatar is, and what it does! It’s really awesome
The only thing that we’d like to mention is that gravatar is not specific to WordPress, developers are free to use gravatar for anything. We’ve seen gravatars in non-blog web pages, in lots of different programming languages, and even in desktop applications!
So…
*IS* your avatar a Gravatar?
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human3rror Says:
May 29, 2008 at 4:18 am
I like gravatar… alot. The biggest issue I’ve had so far is trying to actually access gravatar.com… the thing is down constantly and is seriously the slowest site on the planet…
*grrrr*
…
Martin Says:
May 29, 2008 at 5:29 am
I love Gravatar as well but I think it’s lacking one major thing mainly in wordpress and other blogs. We need plugins to help the registration process without leaving our comment box.
For example a plugin for wodpress like “Gravatar Signup”, link below.
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/gravatar-signup/
Maybe Automattic could build a working version of this plugin?
pini30lin Says:
May 29, 2008 at 8:54 am
Every Body put your hands up in the sky
John Says:
May 29, 2008 at 10:38 am
this is cool
urban bohemian Says:
May 29, 2008 at 11:23 am
I was a gravatar devotee until the new method of an account won’t let me have my usual username because someone at wordpress.com already has it? So I can’t even change or delete my current gravatar (which is still a good one) because of the new procedures. *shrug
Darren Daz Cox Says:
May 29, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I like the consistency of having my chosen image next to my name. I use two different emails and it is nice to have both show the same picture.
ovidiu Says:
May 29, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I second this. The Gravatar Signup plugin was great…
socratesbhz Says:
May 29, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Is my avatar a Gravatar? Now it is! Thanks to the team and congratulations from Brazil!
Steve Says:
May 29, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I <3 Gravatars.
I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the WordPress.com functionality (if no Gravatar, then Wavatar, or Identicon, or Monster-whatever) to come to WordPress.org.
Soon? 2.6?
Ryan Says:
May 31, 2008 at 12:44 am
I use gravatars/identicons on my forum:
http://pixopoint.com/forum/
They’re very useful as most of my forum posters only leave 1-2 messages, so uploading an avatar is a hassle for them. The gravatar system is much better and the recent addition of identicons is a nice touch.
Paul Gray Says:
May 31, 2008 at 8:26 am
Yep, my avatar is a gravatar.
rgbconnections Says:
May 31, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I<3gravatars too!
Chris Says:
June 1, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Rock on.
Only problem is now… for some reason, Gravatars stopped working in my blog theme and I have no idea what happened. 
dweeb Says:
June 2, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Yes mine is gravatarized..this neat service needs more publicity though!
Fabio Says:
June 2, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Thank you for my Gravatars…..
lm86 Says:
June 2, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I want a plugin avatar like perezhilton.com, thats cool! easy and fast, do you know wich one? thanks!
http://www.locadora.info
paulgrunt Says:
June 3, 2008 at 5:54 am
Stoked! My avatar is now all grown up and a Gravatar.
Chris Pirillo Says:
June 6, 2008 at 4:17 am
No, seriously… I need help figuring out how / why these gravatars stopped working in WordPress 2.5 and a compatible theme that worked at one point?
Kaolin Fire (GUD Magazine) Says:
June 13, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine’s now got Gravatars and I’m looking at pulling them into other projects (I do web development, among other things
).
EventTechniker Says:
June 18, 2008 at 4:44 am
Yes
hfr Says:
June 19, 2008 at 7:54 am
I like Gravatar too
I hope that a lot of sites will participate. Maybe a “Suggest Site” feature will be nice so that “gravatar.com” will be able to contact them and ask them to participate?
JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Gravatar: How To Get Your Picture With Your Comment In This Blog Says:
August 19, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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Jason Chenis Says:
August 25, 2008 at 6:35 am
Gravitating towards a Gravatar is easy. Corny I know… =0)
Scott Paterson Says:
September 9, 2008 at 4:11 am
I just implemented Gravatar support for members of saabnet.com. Users love it! I’d love to see you guys offer more automatic stuff like this such as blogs, twitter, friendfeed, flickr, links, etc.. People register their social network stuff once, we call the PHP code to the gravatar.com server, and get back all the data for a user to present.
-Scott