You know how when you comment on a Blogger blog and your cute little photo pops up next to it? And then when you go to another type of blog it doesn’t show up? Instead, you get this shadowy fellow:
Or, just for kicks, let’s take my blog. You leave your witty and fascinating comment, and when it shows up on the blog you get a big, chatty sun next to your words, like this.
I’m all about my chatty sun. But if you would rather have your own gravatar (globally recognized avatar), go to gravatar.com to get your free personalized gravatar. It will then show up on all gravatar enabled sites, WordPress included. So go get your gravatar, come back here and test it out in the comments. I want to see your face!
Oh, my gosh. For real??? There’s too much cool free stuff out there. Off to get one for myself, because I’m a follower!
I love gravatars! I already had one but I just made a new one thanks to you.
yay! I love that cute tree, Heather.
HI! I just saw pics of your lamp in you kitchen at your sister’s blog, and was wondering if you’d share more pics of your kitchen! Im planning on redoing mine in this same “theme”. will you please share your creativity with ppl like me who need ideas?? thanks!
And there’s my face…hopefully!
Let’s give this a try.
(Heather, I see you!! LOL!)
That is so cool! I hope I did it right.
By the way, I love your blog.
Hugs,
Loretta in GA
Hm…well, I don’t know why it didn’t show up. Guess I’ll have to fuss with it some more.
~Loretta in GA
There we go! Sorry to put so many comments in here today!
Hugs,
Loretta in GA (again!)
Hi Emily… hope this works:)
Here’s mine (hopefully). Thanks for posting this!
Maybe now:)
okay… now!
Ooh, great tip. Is anyone else now humming, “I want to seeee your faaace…I want to know you moore (more and more!)” Just me? Okay. That song’s gonna be in my head ALL DAY.
I guess I just wanted to be like the rest of the crowd and need two tries to get it right? Take TWO!
Oh, sweet Emily! How I love you. My avatar (on blogger anyway) is a pair of superfab shoes. Shocked? If you want to see my pretty face, head over to my blog and enter my 100th post give-away. It involves chocolate!
Ok, I did it… Let’s see if it works now!
Poop! It didn’t work!
I wonder if it needs time to register? I’m sure it’s operator error… I’m technologically challenged!
This is my last try. For realz.
Look at how AWESOME I am!!!! My avatar came up! WHOO HOO!!!!
Thanks for the tip!
Ok – I think I did it. Let’s see.
Okay, now?
…..now?
…I’m pouting now. I’ll have to try again later
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AnNicole – Yours comes up in my dashboard but not in the comments?
And yay! I see your faces! Keep practicing. When I got mine, I went around commenting on random sites to see if it worked. Let this be your training ground.
Sorry, I don’t think you wanted to see my face that much
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Thanks for letting us know about the Gravatar! Hopefully mine works.
Ah…I am not sure how this works… but I like to see the faces too!
sandy toe
test, test..
test run number 2
You must be reading my mind because I have been wondering about this all week! Not that I want to share photos oh so badly but I don’t want to be a man’s silhouette either, lol!
Thanks Emily!
~Rachel
well a sun is better than a man.. i’ll keep trying- hahaha
be-e-ep. This is a test. This is only a test. Be-e-p.
Thanks for the push. I’ve been wanting to do this, but had forgotten my WP.com log-in. So I emailed support, got the info, and voila!
I’m off to coment some more.
I heart you for showing me how to do these. I have never wanted to be a shadowy face.
Fun. Now i need to find a non-cheesy picture fo myself!
IT DIDN’T WORK! I was supposed to be a cherry pie!
Yea – I need to see the face in order to “know” the commentor…
Thanks for the info!
Oh wow. We seem to be thinking the same way. I just set up gravatars on my blog last night, too!
Katie
Yikes can’t keep up with blogging world. Loved the senior photos you did and also the beautiful tree outside your window! WOW God is such an artist!
Very proud that I managed to figure this one out!
Jamie
Love it! I hope this works. I crossed all my t’s and dotted all my i’s!
I’m hoping it will show up? I can’t figure out what else to do….
You’ve seen it before! lol
I just wanted to thank you for enlightening me – I didn’t know that was a sun. I kind of thought it was an oyster.
Well Emily you know I would do anything for you. So I signed up for my avatar. Now let´s see if it works.
Now that’s really fun!
Testing this out.
Hi. I’m wondering if you could show us some photos of your kitchen? Where did you buy your black cabinets? Where did you get your sink? What brand of trash bag do you use? I refuse to look at any other post but your top post. So if you wrote about it yesterday I won’t see it. Will you please write another post entirely about your kitchen just for me? Be sure to include every paint color, price and place and date where you bought everything so I can do it too.
Just kidding. Not really. but Kind of. But I know your archives aren’t up yet so it would actually be hard to find the kitchen for a new reader.
I think the kitchen needs its own blog.
I really really hope mine still works! This is me!
Let’s see if this works….
Woohoo! Thanks for the instructions!
hey thanks!
I already have one, but have been thinking I need to update soon…
Just checking to see if this worked. If not, you may get 20 comments, all from me. wa-hoo.
Okay, did it work this time? I’m so dumputer-challenged.
Always wondered how to do the gravatar – thanks for the info!
Um, now that I’m a little embarrassed, for the record, my first comment had a chatty sun. I didn’t know it’d automatically change to my mug.
Oh, no…do I have one? No idea. Let’s see.
I’m a SUN! Ha, and I tried to post this second comment and your blog told me I am “posting comments too quickly, slow down.” Eeessh, sorry blog! I’ll wait a few moments before trying again.
Ok, let’s try this again. Guess I had changed my email address since I last made a gravatar. Good thing you alerted me! Is it working?
dumputers.
oh, now it works! yikes! my head fills the whole box! i liked the chatty sun better.
This is my favorite post ever. These comments ROCK.
Oh, wow! Thanks for telling us how to do that! I had never heard of that site, nor did I know how anyone ever put a picture next to their name.
Awesome! Thanks!
Yippee no more sun thing- funny is I wondered about that just 2 days ago because one of your comments had a photo and that was so not fair! And we all know that life is fair, right? HA!
Will this actually work???
Yay!!! It worked!
How cool is that? Thanks, Emily!
I enjoy your blog.
And, btw… what a great way to get tons of comments. Everyone has to do at least 2 to make sure that it worked. LOL!
Thanks for this! Fun!
Thanks so much for the info. I had wondered what gravatar was, now I know. Signed up, though I did not use my own pic. Maybe change what I have for now later. Love your site!
how smart are you? gosh!! so glad you stumbled on this little tidbit of info…. because those gray faces were looking sad
now… let’s see if mine worked! have a great day emily
how come mine did not work?! oh… looks like i typed in the wrong e-mail address? trying again!
Very cool! I HATE becoming that shaddowy fellow
Let’s see here…
Testing, testing, 123…
I did it too!
Gee thanks for the gravatar thingy. Never knew this was possible
Just checking. BTW,I think the kitchen needs its own blog as well.
Happy Easter.
Thanks Emily! Hope this works!
Donna @ Funky Junk Interiors
Trying again… if this doesn’t work, at least the little funky sun is cute.
Donna
Thank you so much for the info! I really hope the picture shows up! Love your blog!
Thanks!
Can you see me now?
I am testing my gravitar! Can you see me?
I can see you! Yay!
Hmmmm, just testing to see if this works?
Wow, I always wondered how people did that. Hmm… let’s see how it looks.