{"id":1684,"date":"2017-06-21T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.dc.wordcamp.org\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2017-06-21T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:54:44","slug":"time-to-get-your-gravatar-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/time-to-get-your-gravatar-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get your Gravatar on!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s a Gravatar?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"You may have heard of an avatar before, but just in case, it\u2019s an image that represents a person in the virtual world. Well, a GRAVATAR is a “Globally Recognized Avatar” used in the WordPress world.<\/p>\n

If you have ever seen an image next to someone’s name who wrote a blog or comment or been to a WordCamp where participants had a photo or avatar on their nametag, that was a Gravatar!<\/p>\n

Nice! How do I get one?<\/strong>
\nGravatar has easy to follow instructions on their website<\/a>. We have also posted a cheet-sheet below. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Really Abbreviated Gravatar Instructions<\/strong>
\nGravatar uses your WordPress.com account. If you don\u2019t have an account already, you can set it up while creating your Gravatar.<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to the Gravatar home page<\/a> and click Sign In<\/em>. Fill in your WordPress.com account information.<\/li>\n
  2. If you don’t already have a WordPress.com account, click Need an account?<\/em> to register for a new account. Create your WordPress.com account. You will need to activate the new account by following the instructions in the activation email you will receive.<\/li>\n
  3. You are now ready to add an image (avatar), a bio, and anything else you want the WordPress world to know about you!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"P.S. If you are having trouble picking an image for your Gravatar and you don’t want to use a photo of yourself, might we recommend a Wapuu<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What\u2019s a Gravatar? You may have heard of an avatar before, but just in case, it\u2019s an image that represents a person in the virtual world. Well, a GRAVATAR is a “Globally Recognized Avatar” used in the WordPress world. If you have ever seen an image next to someone’s name who wrote a blog or … Continue reading “Time to get your Gravatar on!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9618246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-wordcamp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gcWY-ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9618246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}