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If you are a regular visitor on the web, chances are you have come across blog posts that have pictures alongside their comments. So, how do you set your picture against your forum posts or blog comments?

Not all forums or blogs allow users to use pictures alongside their comments. However, those that do use the same easy-to-use system called Gravatar.

If you aim to have your picture alongside your posts or questions, then read on to get a clear understanding. However, should you need quick and comprehensive assistance, we are here to help you.

What is an Avatar?

Before we get into details about how to get your picture in blog comments, we need to learn about the concept of avatars first.

Simply put, avatars are small pictures you see next to forum posts or blog comments. Some users might use three-dimensional characters to represent themselves, while others choose a cartoon or some graphical icons that are significant to them.

Using an avatar on forums requires a universally accepted system that helps in transferring the picture across platforms. Otherwise, you have to set up new avatars for different blogs and forums.

And that’s how Gravatar comes into play.

Gravatar

Gravatar: A Quick Introduction

Gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is a service that serves avatars to various websites. It is owned by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com.

By default, Gravatar images have the standard settings of 80 x 80 pixels. They can go up to 512 pixels wide.

Gravatars are linked to email addresses that you use to sign up for the service. Whenever you leave a comment, the forum or blog will retrieve the avatar from your Gravatar account using your email address. An encrypted version of your email called the MD5 hash is used to prevent spams.

The purpose of the MD5 hash is to identify your Gravatar account and prevent the sending of your real email. No one can see your email from the MD5 hash. For instance, the MD5 hash for yourmail@email.com is 3b3be63a4c2a439b013787725dfce802.

Gravatar Ratings

To prevent the display of inappropriate images, Gravatar has a voluntary rating system. You can choose from the following ratings depending on your audience:

  • PG — possibly offensive and may contain rude gestures and mild violence. It is suitable for the audience above 13 years old.
  • G — suitable for all audiences.
  • X — this rating is for a more mature audience.
  • R — intended for an audience above 17 years old.

The ratings can be selectively set by websites that support the Gravatar system. For instance, you may set your rating to G if you expect children to visit your site.

Why You Should Use Gravatar

As an individual, the main benefit of using a Gravatar image is to enable other users to identify you on the web. What’s more, you don’t have to upload an avatar every time you sign up to a different site because Gravatar will take care of it.

If you’re a blogger, a Gravatar image also adds credibility to your content. Using a professional picture will convince the readers that they’re reading a reliable source.

For forum owners, Gravatar provides an improved and heightened user experience for your members. People are more likely to interact with profiles that have a picture, so Gravatars will encourage user engagement on your platforms. In return, this will translate into more traffic and more social shares.

Gravatars

How to Sign Up for Gravatar

Now that you know how important it is to have a Gravatar account, let’s learn how to sign up for the service. Here’s how to do so:

  1. Visit www.gravatar.com and click Create Your Own Gravatar. If you have a WordPress.com account, select the Already have a WordPress.com account? and login. Otherwise, follow the next step.
  2. Enter your email address, username, and password. Press Create your account.
  3. Check your email for an email sent from WordPress.com and click on the activation link. If you can’t find the message, check the spam folder.

After your account is live, it’s time to upload your picture:

  1. Sign in to Gravatar and head over to the My Gravatars tab. Click Add a new image.
  2. Select Upload New, choose an image from your computer, and press Next.
  1. Crop your image to a proper size.
  2. Choose an appropriate rating for your avatar and hit Set Rating.

That’s it, and you are good to go! Every time you leave a comment on a Gravatar-enabled forum or blog, your avatar image will automatically appear.

Conclusion

Gravatars make it easy for you to have a profile picture across different platforms and websites. You only need to sign up, upload a picture, and set a proper rating. There’s really no reason for you not to use this service but if you find to dive deeper about the Gravatars you can read more here.

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Media Embeds https://jayz.news/2018/09/17/media-embeds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=media-embeds Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:26:08 +0000 http://demo.wphoot.com/chromatic/?p=72 Really cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013 This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature. Posted as per the instructions in the Codex.   Learn

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Really cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often.

— Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013

This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature.

Posted as per the instructions in the Codex.

 

Learn more about Embedding Youtube in WordPress.

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Markup: HTML Tags and Formatting https://jayz.news/2018/09/15/markup-html-tags-and-formatting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=markup-html-tags-and-formatting Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:20:34 +0000 http://demo.wphoot.com/chromatic/?p=1 Header one Header two Header three Header four Header five Header six Default Text Align – Left Align This is a paragraph. It is left aligned. Because of this, it is a bit more liberal in it’s views. It’s favorite color is green. Left align tends to be more eco-friendly,

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Header one

Header two

Header three

Header four

Header five
Header six

Default Text Align – Left Align

This is a paragraph. It is left aligned. Because of this, it is a bit more liberal in it’s views. It’s favorite color is green. Left align tends to be more eco-friendly, but it provides no concrete evidence that it really is. Even though it likes share the wealth evenly, it leaves the equal distribution up to justified alignment.

Center Align

This is a paragraph. It is center aligned. Center is, but nature, a fence sitter. A flip flopper. It has a difficult time making up its mind. It wants to pick a side. Really, it does. It has the best intentions, but it tends to complicate matters more than help. The best you can do is try to win it over and hope for the best. I hear center align does take bribes.

Right Align

This is a paragraph. It is right aligned. It is a bit more conservative in it’s views. It’s prefers to not be told what to do or how to do it. Right align totally owns a slew of guns and loves to head to the range for some practice. Which is cool and all. I mean, it’s a pretty good shot from at least four or five football fields away. Dead on. So boss.

Justify Align

This is a paragraph. It is justify aligned. It gets really mad when people associate it with Justin Timberlake. Typically, justified is pretty straight laced. It likes everything to be in it’s place and not all cattywampus like the rest of the aligns. I am not saying that makes it better than the rest of the aligns, but it does tend to put off more of an elitist attitude.

Blockquotes

Single line blockquote:

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Multi line blockquote with a cite reference:

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Steve Jobs – Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference, 1997

Tables

Employee Salary
John Doe $1 Because that’s all Steve Jobs needed for a salary.
Jane Doe $100K For all the blogging she does.
Fred Bloggs $100M Pictures are worth a thousand words, right? So Jane x 1,000.
Jane Bloggs $100B With hair like that?! Enough said…

Definition Lists

Definition List Title
Definition list division.
Startup
A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
#dowork
Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher “Big Black” Boykins, “Do Work” works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends.
Do It Live
I’ll let Bill O’Reilly will explain this one.

Nested Unordered Lists

  • List item one
    • List item one
      • List item one
      • List item two
      • List item three
      • List item four
    • List item two
    • List item three
    • List item four
  • List item two
  • List item three
  • List item four

Nested Ordered Lists

  1. List item one
    1. List item one
      1. List item one
      2. List item two
      3. List item three
      4. List item four
    2. List item two
    3. List item three
    4. List item four
  2. List item two
  3. List item three
  4. List item four

Ordered – Unordered – Ordered

  1. ordered item
  2. ordered item
    • unordered
    • unordered
      1. ordered item
      2. ordered item
  3. ordered item
  4. ordered item

Ordered – Unordered – Unordered

  1. ordered item
  2. ordered item
    • unordered
    • unordered
      • unordered item
      • unordered item
  3. ordered item
  4. ordered item

HTML Tags

Address Tag

1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States

Anchor Tag (aka. Link)

This is an example of a link.

Abbreviation Tag

The abbreviation srsly stands for “seriously”.

Big Tag (deprecated in HTML5)

These tests are a big deal, but this tag is no longer supported in HTML5.

Cite Tag

“Code is poetry.” —Automattic

Code Tag

You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word; will be your best friend.

Delete Tag

This tag will let you strikeout text, but this tag is no longer supported in HTML5 (use the <strike> instead).

Insert Tag

This tag should denote inserted text.

Keyboard Tag

This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

Preformatted Tag

This tag styles large blocks of code.

.post-title {
	margin: 0 0 5px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 38px;
	line-height: 1.2;
	and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}

Quote Tag

Developers, developers, developers… –Steve Ballmer

Strike Tag (deprecated in HTML5)

This tag shows strike-through text

Strong Tag

This tag shows bold text.

Subscript Tag

Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the “2” down.

Superscript Tag

Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton’s E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up.

Teletype Tag (deprecated in HTML5)

This rarely used tag emulates teletype text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

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Jay Charity Fundraisers https://jayz.news/2018/09/13/jay-charity-fundraisers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jay-charity-fundraisers Thu, 13 Sep 2018 02:17:12 +0000 http://demo.wphoot.com/chromatic/?p=63 Anton Robinson’s fundraiser My story FINISHED!!! Here’s the stats: Distance run: 225.1km (139.9mi) Time taken: 20h21m17s Avg speed: 11.1km.h (6.9mph) Avg HR: 168bpm Fastest 5k: 24:42 Slowest 5k: 29:13 Calories burned: 15,389 That’s it, 45 consecutive days of running done. 225km covered and I ran all the way 🙂 Enjoyable pub lunch afterwards with running partners

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Anton Robinson’s fundraiser

My story

FINISHED!!!

Here’s the stats:

Distance run: 225.1km (139.9mi)

Time taken: 20h21m17s

Avg speed: 11.1km.h (6.9mph)

Avg HR: 168bpm

Fastest 5k: 24:42

Slowest 5k: 29:13

Calories burned: 15,389

That’s it, 45 consecutive days of running done. 225km covered and I ran all the way 🙂

Enjoyable pub lunch afterwards with running partners Steve Jay and Rich Page (and supporter Bev Jay) followed by a whacking great curry. Magic.

Looking forward to a rest now. Many, many thanks to those who’ve sponsored so far, made it all worthwhile and raised a massive chunk for 2 great charities.

Details of recent runs done…

Day 44: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/247505969Day 45: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/247505973More stats to follow soon!

Hi, thanks for visiting my page. Through Virgin Money Giving, you can sponsor me and donations will be quickly processed and passed to charities. Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity’s behalf where the donor is eligible for this. I really appreciate all your support and thank you for any donations.

I haven’t got time to run a marathon a day, so I’m going to do 5k every day for 45 days. Conveniently, this (225km) is roughly the distance from Newcastle to Nottingham, or if you prefer, Nottingham to Newcastle, a move I made 2 years ago.

This time last year I couldn’t run 500m, let alone 5k, so it should prove something of a challenge to keep this up. There’s also the fact that Nottingham is made entirely of hill to keep this entertaining.

So I’ll start running on Monday 15th October, and finish on Wednesday 28th November. In a comically bad piece of timing, my birthday’s in that date range, which should make a couple of the runs interesting…

Cheers!

Anton

Steve Jay’s Fundraising Page

Fundraising for CARE International UK

Thanks for visiting my fundraising page.

Starting on May 16th 2009 I will be walking the 268 mile path from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland over a period of 19 days. I am walking this in memory of Diana Jackson, a friend who died last year, and hope to raise money in her memory. If you possibly can please make a donation to Care International. They are a fantastic charity who make a lasting difference to the lives of some of the world’s poorest people, whilst at the same time maintaining their dignity. A suitable cause by which to remember a fantastic person.

If additionally you would like to join me for some of the walk or simply meet me for a pint on one of the evenings please email me at Steve.Jay@kaplan.co.uk and I will send you my itinerary.

Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: CARE International UK gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.

See more here

Steve and Jay Rawlings: International Award-Winning Juggling

 Beccles Public Hall And Theatre, Fundraising for the Hall, NR34 9AD
 Sat 28th March 2020
International Award-winning Comedy Juggler Steve Rawlings explodes onto the stage with a unique collection of tricks and stunts that will not only blow you away but give you more laughs than many a comic.

He will be joined by his son Jay Rawlings who many will have seen in his hugely successful appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, smashing the Guiness World Record for balancing 11 chairs on his chin.
 
More here…

“ A brisk, skilful act that will get your heart in your throat and give you more belly laughs than any comic” Guardian
“ Hilarious and Original” The Times

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Markup: Image Alignment https://jayz.news/2018/09/11/markup-image-alignment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=markup-image-alignment Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:47:50 +0000 http://demo.wphoot.com/chromatic/?p=48 Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started. The image above happens to be centered. The rest of this paragraph is filler for the

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Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started.

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The image above happens to be centered.

placeholder-03The rest of this paragraph is filler for the sake of seeing the text wrap around the 150×150 image, which is left aligned.

As you can see the should be some space above, below, and to the right of the image. The text should not be creeping on the image. Creeping is just not right. Images need breathing room too. Let them speak like you words. Let them do their jobs without any hassle from the text. In about one more sentence here, we’ll see that the text moves from the right of the image down below the image in seamless transition. Again, letting the do it’s thang. Mission accomplished!

And now for a massively large image. It also has no alignment.

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The image above, though 1200px wide, should not overflow the content area. It should remain contained with no visible disruption to the flow of content.

placeholder-05And now we’re going to shift things to the right align. Again, there should be plenty of room above, below, and to the left of the image. Just look at him there… Hey guy! Way to rock that right side. I don’t care what the left aligned image says, you look great. Don’t let anyone else tell you differently.

In just a bit here, you should see the text start to wrap below the right aligned image and settle in nicely. There should still be plenty of room and everything should be sitting pretty. Yeah… Just like that. It never felt so good to be right.

Images With Captions

And just when you thought we were done, we’re going to do them all over again with captions!

Look at 580x300 getting some caption love.
Look at 580×300 getting some caption love.

The image above happens to be centered. The caption also has a link in it, just to see if it does anything funky.

Itty-bitty caption.
Itty-bitty caption.

The rest of this paragraph is filler for the sake of seeing the text wrap around the 150×150 image, which is left aligned

As you can see the should be some space above, below, and to the right of the image. The text should not be creeping on the image. Creeping is just not right. Images need breathing room too. Let them speak like you words. Let them do their jobs without any hassle from the text. In about one more sentence here, we’ll see that the text moves from the right of the image down below the image in seamless transition. Again, letting the do it’s thang. Mission accomplished!

And that’s a wrap, yo! You survived the tumultuous waters of alignment. Image alignment achievement unlocked!

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