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Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars. They are usually an image of size 80px by 80px created by a user to represent him online whether in a forum, chat, website, a blog or any other form of online community in which the user seeks to participate and also distinguish themselves from other users.

What this means is that you can create a picture, could be your picture, your Dog’s picture, your favorite QB’s picture whatever which will appear beside your name whenever you comment somewhere online and that blog supports gravatars. Simply, using a Gravator allows a web user, YOU to use a single image to share across the entire World Wide Web.

Gravatar Plugin for your WordPress Blog

We are going to use the Gravatars 2.0 WordPress Plugin to help you set up Gravatar for your blog and allow people commenting on posts on your blog to use them.

Plugin Name: Gravatar

Plugin Page: http://site.gravatar.com/site/implement#section_2_2

Download Gravatar plugin for Wordpress

http://site.gravatar.com/plugins/wp_gravatar.zip

Set up Gravatar for your WordPress Blog

Step # 1: Sign up for a Gravatar. Associate your picture with your Email address. If you already have a gravatar account skip this step

Step # 2: Download and extract the Gravatar plugin to your WordPress plugins directory, located at <WordPress Install Dir>/wp-content/plugins.

Step # 3: Once the file is placed in the plugins directory, login to your WordPress installation, and click the “Plugins” tab on the main administration panel. Look through the list of installed plugins to find the one called “Gravatar“. Under the “Action” column for this plugin, click on “Activate“.

Step # 4: Now in your WordPress Admin Console, click on Presentation then Theme Editor. Select comments.php or the comments file in your WordPress theme.

Step # 5: In your comments.php file look for something like this

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

Anywhere below this line, paste the Gravatar code below

<?php gravatar(); ?>

Your plugin is now activated and Gravatars are ready to use on your Blog

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