As an edublogs user you now have two avatars, one for your blog and one for your username.
Your ‘blog avatar’ will appear where your blog is listed, for example in the most popular blogs lists on the front page. You can set this in Options > Blog Avatar.
Your ‘user avatar’ will appear where your username is listed, for example in the forums or when you leave a comment on another Edublog. You can set this in Users > Your Avatar.
Of course, you can use the same avatar for both, but you have to upload it to both areas.
We’re implementing this as we’re going to be adding avatars to comments soon and have already integrated them with the forums (you no longer need to sign up for a separate account their either!) The ‘user avatar’ will link to your ‘primary blog’ as set in ‘My Profile’.
Happy cropping :)
January 22, 2008 at 6:28 am Permalink
I am relatively new here, but I think the new avatar options are great.
January 22, 2008 at 9:21 am Permalink
Hello friends. Maybe I am the newest blogger here. So new that I didn´t know how to set my blog and users avatars.
I hope someone teach me how to do that.
January 22, 2008 at 9:44 am Permalink
Glad you like it, hopefully the instructions above will assist :)
January 22, 2008 at 10:01 am Permalink
Your instructions were great — well designed for techno illiterates like me.
Larry
January 23, 2008 at 10:15 am Permalink
That is SO great! Thanks!
January 23, 2008 at 11:15 pm Permalink
The cropping actually worked very well!
January 27, 2008 at 12:59 pm Permalink
Hi,
I’ve followed the above steps, but can’t get my avatars to display (on the site). I “see” them when I select them, but they don’t view on the site itself or when I leave comments…
I’ve tried different files … jpgs, pdfs… is there some special formatting?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
Gina
January 27, 2008 at 1:01 pm Permalink
Hi Gina,
You can put your avatar in your sidebar through widgets and tit will appear on the forums too – we’re adding them to comments at the moment too so that should happen soon.
January 27, 2008 at 1:15 pm Permalink
James, my friend… you just introduced me to a brave new world… i hadn’t gotten around to playing around with the widgets/sidebar… WOW….many thanks… and good parking karma to you!
Gina in New York City
http://webgina.edublog.org
January 27, 2008 at 1:35 pm Permalink
Hi there.
Any chance we can use My Voki avatars here?
Judite Lucas
January 27, 2008 at 1:40 pm Permalink
Should be easy enough, it’s just an animated gif right?
Here’s some mpre widget help: http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/01/19/getting-more-out-of-widgets/
January 27, 2008 at 1:52 pm Permalink
James, it’s not just a gif. The embed code uses java. I cannot make it work with WordPress. I remember having read someone found a way around it, but have been unable to trace it back. There may be a reference to it in the link you provide, I’ll look into it and contact Helen tomorrow.
Thanks!
January 27, 2008 at 2:37 pm Permalink
Take a look at this comment thread now :)
January 27, 2008 at 2:39 pm Permalink
Judite, here you go: http://support.creativeblogs.net/2008/01/05/how-to-embed-a-voki-into-your-blog/
January 27, 2008 at 10:36 pm Permalink
Heyyyyyyyyyyy…. look at that!… and check out my blog as well–I got the avatar working there as well and have given you all a nod!
Thanks again.
Gina
http://webgina.edublogs.org/
February 3, 2008 at 8:46 am Permalink
I can’t seem to get to the subheader that has been described. Whenever I click on “options” it just sends me back to the dashboard. Does it only work if you clicked on the “gimme a blog” option when you signed in?
February 6, 2008 at 1:18 am Permalink
I am having the same problem. I started with a blog but deleted it later. Now I want to change my avatar and it sends me back to the dashboard when I click ‘Options’. Do I need a blog to get an avatar?
February 6, 2008 at 9:00 am Permalink
Hi, James. I do not have the option of a blog avatar or a user avatar. Is it because I have a learnerblog instead of an edublog? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.
February 6, 2008 at 9:58 am Permalink
Yep, you need a blog to have a blog avatar and apologies Adam we currently don’t have avatars enabled at learnerblogs (although we will soon)
However, as you can see (Holly) you can have a user avatar but not a blog avatar just fine. Does that clear things up?
February 8, 2008 at 11:10 am Permalink
Hey James! Great to be back on edublogs and loving all of the changes/improvements. I missed you and all the great features/service you’ve built right in. Just before I signed off at the end of October you set me up with a blog avatar–wondering how to get that into the user avatar? Remember I had that bit of remediation from you, back in the day, before you were such a huge blogging world force? Any chance that could happen again, with the user avatar? Please?
February 8, 2008 at 11:26 am Permalink
Actually, the only person who can upload a user avatar is, eeek, you :)
Have you gone to ‘My Profile’ (top right) and tried uploading a piccie?
Like the new minimalist look BTW!
February 8, 2008 at 10:56 pm Permalink
Greetings all,
I am very excited with all the new features and it’s great to see my blog avatar finally up, I created a user avatar as well, and it’s there when I click on to see it but it never appears with a comment. Actually it did here when I first identified the problem. But I don’t see my comment anymore. What’s up?
Bonnie
February 9, 2008 at 3:02 am Permalink
James–You are going to be so proud of me–check out this avatar! I am getting much better with the tech end of the blog writing. And thanks for the minimalist presentation, it’s easier for all of our dial up community residents to open. Kim
February 9, 2008 at 3:03 am Permalink
Okay, so don’t be proud of me, but it’s in there, I swear and it’s on my front page. Geez.
February 9, 2008 at 4:18 am Permalink
Hi Kimberly,
It looks like you’ve successfully uploaded your blog avatar but still need to upload your “user avatar” which is the one that shows up in comments. You can upload your user avatar here:
http://ghsprincipal.edublogs.org/wp-admin/users.php?page=edit_user_avatar
Thanks,
Andrew
February 9, 2008 at 4:25 am Permalink
Thanks Andrew, did that and it shows up as my user avatar, but alas, unless it works this time, not here.
February 9, 2008 at 8:48 am Permalink
How odd… we’ll take a further look.
February 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm Permalink
Hi I had an avatar posted then it disappeared… now there isn’t even an option. Where did it go?
March 1, 2008 at 3:07 pm Permalink
I have a REAL avatar. (smile)
March 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm Permalink
Under options there is no place to click for an avator…what can i do? Oh i am on uniblogs if that changes things
March 5, 2008 at 1:00 pm Permalink
Yeh,. sorry about that, you’ll need to move your blog over to Edublogs to get avatars – create a new blog here: http://edublogs.org/wp-signup.php and then Manage > Import / Export should do it.
March 31, 2008 at 8:22 am Permalink
What is a blog avator? Why would I need a blog avator? What is the difference between a user and a blog avator? How do you set an avator up on the blog; I don’t see any instructions on how to do this – where can I find this information? Please advise….
March 31, 2008 at 8:49 am Permalink
@alyce… erm… did you read the post these commnst are attached too?
April 2, 2008 at 2:39 am Permalink
For the people with “missing avatars” just give it a little time…mine took about half an hour before actually apearing!
(Btw, James I love your avatar!)
April 9, 2008 at 9:12 am Permalink
My avartar is a black square. How can I change to a library icon?
April 9, 2008 at 9:16 am Permalink
Please try the instructions at the top of this post – and make sure you are uploading a jpg, png or gif
June 11, 2008 at 11:17 pm Permalink
When I hit the link to upload an avatar it says website is unavailable or not working. What can I do?
June 12, 2008 at 8:47 am Permalink
@pagepalace Please refer to the forums and provide some more information (links etc.)
July 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm Permalink
Hi,
I seem to have my user avatar set. (I’ll find out when this is posted.) I cannot, however, figure out how to set the blog avatar. The link on the dashboard does not work. I’ve looked for “options” multiple times and simply do not see it.
Thank you for the help.
August 29, 2008 at 9:02 am Permalink
When i attempt to add an image for my avatar, it take sme to a screen to crop the image… i do… but then it won’t let me click on the crop image screen… any ideas what i can do?? thanks
September 4, 2008 at 5:22 am Permalink
I am curious if there is a way to manage students’ avatars. I would like to use the feature on the blog, but a little fearful that someone may choose an inappropriate picture as their avatar. Please let me know if there is a way to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Thanks in advance for your help.
October 4, 2008 at 4:36 am Permalink
hi james i’m new but i think the av’s are great! ill check up l8r when i got my avatar going
October 26, 2008 at 11:31 am Permalink
Cropping system doesn’t work well. What is your size limit so I wouldn’t have to crop? That would be helpful. Thanks!
November 18, 2008 at 7:10 am Permalink
i uploaded a new picture for my user avatar, but once i posted a comment it still had my old photo what happened!!!????!!!
November 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm Permalink
I am new at this, so don’t shoot me.
I can use ‘anything’ as an ‘avatar’???
Where do I get those cute cartoony ones??