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Change your default Avatar with your own picture

How to display your own picture or any images to replace mystery man and very useful if you comment in other blogs as your image will shows up while you’re commenting.

I was thinking if i can change the grey default avatar which is called Mystery man to something else. In my case, I want to change it to my own Picture. I finally found out how. Please keep in mind, that once you get an avatar with your email address, it will apply everywhere you post comments using the same email address that you used to sign up in Gravatar.com


Default and custom Avatar.

This tutorial i made with wordpress 2.9.2, however it will work with wordpress 3+ (now wordpress 3.0.1).


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31 comments

1 Jauhari { 03.19.10 at 1:51 pm }

Does there are any tutorial without movie? Because my connection really problem…

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Dina Reply:

Until now, none Jauhari :( but Thanks for this, if you dont tell me i wouldn’t know. So I will try to post some without videos. I remember how slow and expensive the connection in Indonesia a few years back. Greetings thanks for commenting, you are my first commentator, how i happy i am lol!

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Jauhari Reply:

Thanks you for your quick reply, it’s look like your themes not yet Threaded Comment Optimized, we need to reload the page to add reply. :)

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Jauhari Reply:

You need to edit header.php to make reply comment running smoothly without reload the page ;)

Check it some of my themes, has been support this featured, may I know where you come from? it’s look like you are familiar with Indonesia :)

Dina Reply:

Anak Indonesia :) Which line i should edit?

Jauhari Reply:

Coba buka HEADER.PHP dan tambahkan kode berikut ino

Sebelum wp_head()

Terima Kasih :)

2 Jauhari { 03.19.10 at 2:43 pm }

Maaf kodenya ternyata ndak keliatan.. berikut kodenya

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3 Julius Kuhn-Regnier { 03.20.10 at 2:26 pm }

Nice blog I am sure you will make it :P Do you only present videos here?
Btw. where do you live in Germany? I am from Germany too, from Freiburg if you know where it is ;)

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Dina Reply:

Hey Julius, Thanks that you left a comment, encourage me, and coming by :) No, I don’t only present videos, there are some tips which I wrote, but those are simple and short one:) I live in Baden Wuerttemberg, sure I kow Freiburg, one of our family lives in Schwarzwald, we go there sometimes:) keep in touch, greetings from the south.

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4 Joe - Best Security Software { 03.22.10 at 3:35 am }

Great work Dina! I didn’t know you could do that from within WordPress. I thought you had to do everything from Gravatar.com

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Dina Reply:

Hey Joe,
Thanks for leaving a comment. I watched the video again just now, and i was so slow in video :D but i am so glad it was a help :) i will try to be better, greetings from Germany.

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5 Scott { 03.24.10 at 12:00 am }

Thanks!

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Dina Reply:

Hello there Scott, you’re very welcome, and thank you for leaving a note :)

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6 FilmeIMDB { 03.30.10 at 3:27 am }

thanks for the help in add a avatar to my acount. Thanks

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Dina Reply:

Hey FilmeIMDB

Thanks for coming by, so glad it was useful :) Talk to you soon

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7 Scenografia { 04.14.10 at 5:51 pm }

Thank you for this particular useful post! Furthermore, i have got a weblog and i’m thinking, where can i download these kinds of fantastic theme like your own?

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Dina Reply:

Hey Scenografia, Thanks that it was useful for you, unfortunately i created this theme and it’s not yet downladable :( But don’t worry, there are bunch of nice themes out there, Greetings!

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8 Aileen { 04.14.10 at 6:43 pm }

This is brilliant! I was trying to change the image
from “mystery man” for a few days. I was thrilled to see
this video last night and it worked perfectly!
YAY!!!! Thank you for the instructional video!

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Dina Reply:

Aileen!! I am glad to see your pic! :) Good job! and i am happy you find the video useful ;)

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9 Fahad { 05.17.10 at 9:11 am }

Thanks for sharing !! It works

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Dina Reply:

Hey Fahad:)
You’re so welcome! so glad it works! :D

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10 Amit { 05.27.10 at 9:35 am }

Hi Dina,
Thanks for this great video…it works. I was banging head for long time to change the image and what i found is 10000 plugins which let my user’s to change their image not mine.
but ur idea worked for me.
Thanks once again

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11 Dina { 05.27.10 at 9:59 am }

Hey Amit :D I’m so happy that it helps you! I understand about banging your head, you can do that in a music concert :D

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12 weihnachtsmann de { 06.19.10 at 8:32 pm }

That’s an amazing post. Thanks a lot

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Dina Reply:

@weihnachtsmann de, You are welcome, wonderful that the post was amazing to you :)

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13 C00per { 08.20.10 at 11:19 am }

Hi what’s the nightmare on this CMS, there is no way to change users avatar in wordpress without signing up on another website ???!!!!

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Dina Reply:

@C00per, hey there :)

Well wordpress team might notice it and will improve it :)

Thanks for your input.

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14 C00per { 08.20.10 at 4:27 pm }

Hey Dina, nice to meet you ;-)

I’m not shocked but let say deeply disturbed :-)

How this can be possible, I’m using Joomla since 10 years and feel the need to change with a lightest and user friendly CMS. Found WordPress since several months but never plays too much with user profiles etc… So they implemented the “avatar” option on their solution and they didn’t took the time to give users a standalone way to manage their avatar !? Do you really think it’s something we will have in the nex release? I don’t think so…but really wish for it…

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Dina Reply:

@C00per, Nice to meet you too :)

I have tried using Joomla, but i prefer wordpress and i love it.

Of course it is not perfect but i just love it! :)

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15 Allan { 09.06.10 at 2:02 am }

Great site…I fixed my image too…thx :)

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Dina Reply:

@Allan, Hi there :)

Great to see an image of your avatar!

Thank you for leaving a great encouraging comment Allan.

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