How to Add a Gravatar to StBlogs
StBlogs has begun using gravatars next to comments and elsewhere on the site. This will really help your comments and posts stand out!
Uploading Your Gravatar:
Step 1: Go to www.Gravatar.com and click “Sign Up.”
Step 2: Enter a valid e-mail address.
Step 3: Next, click on “My Account” and go down to “Add an Image.”
Step 4: Select where you’d like to get the image from (for the sake of this tutorial, I chose “My computer’s hard drive”).
Step 5: Click the “Browse…” button and find the image that you would like to upload. Once you have done so, click “Next.”
Step 6: Now, you can choose to crop only a selection of the image or select the entire image by moving and stretching the dotted bounding box. Once you are satisfied, simply click on the “Crop and Finish” button.
Step 7: Next, choose a rating for your gravatar based on the image itself (As a blog administrator you may set how high of a rating to allow and other blogs that you post comments to can do the same. For instance, StBlogs.com has their rating set to “G” and thus, any gravatar that is higher than a “G” rating will be replaced with a generic icon).
Step 8: Choose the image that you would like to set as your default gravatar by clicking on it.
Activating Your Gravatar Settings:
Step 9: Login to your StBlogs Dashboard and click on the “Design” tab. Then click on the “Gravatar” link. Make sure that the “Enable Gravatars on your blog” is checked and then click the “Update Gravatars” button.
Step 10: Next, click on the “Settings” tab…
…and followed by the “Discussion” link.
This is where you can set how your blog handles avatars (Remember when I mentioned above how you can set the rating of gravatars for your own blogs? Well, here is where you can do this, along with how your blog handles non-gravatar users).
And your done!
As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions or if I have confused you ; )
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Make sure that the e-mail address that you registered with Gravatar.com is the same e-mail address that you use with StBlogs? If it is not, this might be the problem. Otherwise, your picture should appear next to your post on the StBlog’s main page automatically.
Hope this helps. If it doesn’t answer your question, then by all means contact us and we’ll try and get to the bottom of this.