Steward's Portion

WHEN YOU COMMENT on a post here on the Stewards Portion Blog, you’ll notice an icon to the left of your comment.  This is an Avatar, or picture icon that represents you.  However, unless you have chosen a picture of your own, you will simply see the default avatar called “Mystery Man.”  That’s rather boring, so in this post I’ll show you what to do if you want something more interesting to appear by your comments.

WordPress doesn’t use regular avatars, but now employs what is known as a Gravatar.  A Gravatar is a “Globally Recognized AVATAR.”  This simply means that when you sign up for a free Gravatar, and assign it to an email address, that Gravatar will automatically show up in any comment you make on any site or blog that supports Gravatars.  This eliminates the need to set up an avatar at every site you visit.

Here’s a short video explaining how this works:

To set up your own Gravatar acount, head over to Gravatar and get started!

Then come back here and test it out.  Simple.