{"id":259,"date":"2008-12-24T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2008-12-23T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:21:20","slug":"get-thee-a-gravatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Get Thee A Gravatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little pictures dwell by post comments. They’re found on blogs, forums, and other places, and they’re called avatars<\/em>.
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\nThe word avatar comes from the Sanskrit word for “tiny picture next to my blog post.” No, seriously, it’s a word for a divine being in human form. On the Internet, it’s a term for a tiny picture that represents your on-line personality.<\/p>\n

Most blogs and forums have the ability for you to choose or (better) upload an avatar. People pick all kinds of images for their avatars, from actual pictures of themselves, to art images, images of famous people, animals, and so on. I suppose it’s similar to that silly picture of the cat or flower that people never change from their Windows logon account.<\/p>\n

The latest rage in avatars is the Gravatar<\/em>. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar. It’s a central repository for your e-mail addresses and associated images. So what you do is go to visit the Gravatar web site<\/a>, set up an account, then choose or upload pictures.<\/p>\n

The pictures you select on Gravatar are associated with your e-mail address. If a blog or forum understands how Gravatars work, it then relays your e-mail address (the one you used to register for the site) back to Gravatar HQ and \u2014 blam! \u2014 all your posts are flagged with your Gravatar image.<\/p>\n

What makes Gravatars so handy is that you need only set up the image once. As long as you use the same e-mail address for those blogs and forums you visit, the Gravatar image sticks with that e-mail address. Change the image once, and every blog and forum you visit changes the image as well.<\/p>\n

If I ever update this software to the latest version of WordPress, then you too can use Gravatars. Bug me. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little pictures dwell by post comments. They’re found on blogs, forums, and other places, and they’re called avatars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}