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Is Your Gravatar Retina-Ready?

Now that all of Gravatar.com is optimized for retina display, you’ll be looking extra sharp to anyone who views your Gravatar profile or Hovercard from a device like the iPhone 4. But are you looking...

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Default Image Changes

Last week we made some changes to how default images, sometimes called “fallback images”, are handled in Gravatar URLs. The purpose of these changes was to enhance the security of the Gravatar API and...

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Gravatar: Creating a Truly Global System

We can’t really call Gravatars “globally recognized avatars” unless they’re realistically available to people the world over, and that means making sure everyone who wants to use one has language...

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Gravatar and WordPress.com, Together Forever

Did you know that your Gravatar.com account has always been a WordPress.com account? It’s true. Back in 2007 we (Automattic) acquired Gravatar. Heading into 2008 we rewrote it in PHP, and ever since...

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Have a self-hosted WordPress site? Supercharge your Gravatars with Jetpack

We’ve written about Gravatar Hovercards before — the nifty pop-up that adds a name, bio, and link to more info when you hover over a Gravatar on WordPress.com. Hovercards are a great way to learn more...

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Add your WordPress sites to your Gravatar Profile

Now we’ve made it easy for you to promote your WordPress sites on your Gravatar Profile. You’ve always been able to add your WordPress sites manually, just as you can with any other existing web page....

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Manage Multiple Identities with One Gravatar Account

Did you know that you can have multiple email addresses associated with your Gravatar account? And that each email address can use a different image? Managing multiple email addresses with Gravatar is...

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A question for Gravatar users

We are working on a Gravatar mobile app and would like to ask our users: Take Our Poll

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Mobile Friendly

We just made the Gravatar.com website, blog, and all profile pages friendlier towards mobile devices. Additionally, you can now edit your profile on the go. Enjoy!

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Something funny happened

On the way to building a Gravatar app, we noticed that taking pictures of ourselves to update our Gravatars was something we only wanted to do every month or so, but then we started taking selfies and...

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