How to Add Avatar in Wordpress

Adding avatar for Wordpress admin is very easy now, you can easily change wordpress admin avtar or picture by following steps.



To Add Avatar in Wordpress you need to Download and install Gravatar Wordpress Plugin and activate it, after successful activation of Gravatar plugin you will find it in your wordpress setting dashboard.



Go with this link and Signup for Gravatar with you email address (which you have used in your wordpress blog), and upload your picture over there.


Now come back to your wordpress blog and find Settings > Discussion, you will find the avatar section as below.

Avatar in Wordpress

An avatar is an image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on avatar enabled sites. Here you can enable the display of avatars for people who comment on your blog.

Avatar Display	Avatar display Don’t show Avatars Show Avatars
Maximum Rating	Maximum Rating G — Suitable for all audiences PG — Possibly offensive, usually for audiences 13 and above R — Intended for adult audiences above 17 X — Even more mature than above
Default Avatar	Default Avatar For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their e-mail address. Mystery Man Blank Gravatar Logo Identicon (Generated) Wavatar (Generated) MonsterID (Generated)

Verify your settings as shown in the picture and save or update the page and you have done, now you will find your avatar in comment is the one you have uploaded in Gravatar site.

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