The Busy Bee

Someone recently sent me an email asking me the following question, and I thought I would share the answer here.

The Question

“I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction about where to look to change my thumbnail picture that auto fills on one of your client’s WordPress blog when I post a response?”

The Answer

Those images are called avatars, and on a website powered by WordPress, you assign a photo to your email address by going to http://en.gravatar.com/.  There you can assign an image to your email address, or assign multiple images to different email addresses if you have several email address, like I do.  Since WordPress powers more websites than any other platform in the world right now, that is a lot of website blogs.

It is pretty quick to set-up and sometimes takes a little time for your gravatar to show up, but it should within 2 or 3 days from my experience.  I also recommend using a .png image file over a .jpg as I had issues with JPGs when I was last adding images, but that may have changed by now.  Not a big deal, just a preference.

If that helped, or you have something to add to my explanation, please share below, and see if your gravatar shows up.

Happy commenting.

How many times have I needed to identify a specific WordPress Category ID and scratched my head trying to remember.  And worse, when I searched on-line for an easy jogging of my memory, found un-necessary solutions leadering others to endlessly scratch their heads as well, wondering if there is an easier way.

And although I am assuming that if you found this post that you know why you are trying to find it, for those who don’t know, there are programming reasons to know – such as to specify in the code to exclude or include a certain category from being displayed on a page.