How to get an avatar image on Blogstorm & lots of other blogs

by Patrick Altoft on October 21, 2008

I notice that a number of people still don’t have avatars when they leave a comment on this blog and a number of other blogs too.

We use Gravatar to provide our avatars because it’s built into Wordpress by default and most blogs will be using this system in the future.

The process takes about 3 minutes if you have an avatar ready to upload.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.

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Charles 21 Oct 2008 at 1:56 pm: I just can’t be bothered. It’s hard to find something funny or interesting enough to use
uncle wilco 21 Oct 2008 at 2:53 pm: I use a photo as mine
Peter Young 21 Oct 2008 at 3:19 pm: I just need to work out how to get rid of mine
Andy 21 Oct 2008 at 4:28 pm: Photo here, too. Suitably mucked about with.
Vinay 21 Oct 2008 at 4:49 pm: For a moment you made us feel ‘kids’ with that ‘kiddish’ tip! Seriously do we need this post.. ha ha ?
Brad 21 Oct 2008 at 5:22 pm: Hmmmm lets see if it works
Patrick Altoft 21 Oct 2008 at 5:38 pm
Find me on Twitter: Lots of people without avatars so I figured it was a good idea to explain it.
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Darren 21 Oct 2008 at 8:42 pm: I use Avatars on my blog, but I have them smaller, because I do not want to scare my readers. Not that I am suggesting you are Patrick!
delaney 22 Oct 2008 at 4:08 am: Thanks for this post. I was signed up with Gravatar since I have a Wordpress.com blog but did not add the photo so thanks!
Mike 22 Oct 2008 at 1:14 pm: Well, i think i’ve added mine- lets see if it works :/
DaveN 22 Oct 2008 at 1:52 pm: hmmmm mine never seems to work,, fingers crossed
DaveN 22 Oct 2008 at 1:53 pm: so what would have happened if mine was offensive.
Patrick Altoft 22 Oct 2008 at 2:41 pm
Find me on Twitter: No idea Dave. Not had to deal with offensive ones. Yet.
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yvonh 23 Oct 2008 at 12:33 pm: Got mine a few minutes ago! Your newsletter btw rock !
RaiulBaztepo 29 Mar 2009 at 2:05 am: Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
Dan London 16 Apr 2009 at 6:52 pm: I love Gravatar. Such a cool app and it really is that easy to set up.

I kind of get irritated when blogs don’t have it installed.
Mike Southby 21 Oct 2009 at 7:03 pm: Agree that it is annoying when people don’t have avatars! Makes the page look dull
Deltawolf 28 Oct 2009 at 4:20 pm: Testing.