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Where is your avatar? What happened to your featured image?

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Elle Knowles

Chris has done his homework on issues with the new WordPress reader. Read on for solutions to a few of them. Thanks Chris for this! ~Elle

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MISSING AVATAR?

What happened to the avatar for your blog in the WordPress reader?

The recent update to the WordPress reader now shows your blog avatar, or blavatar, instead of your Gravatar.

So if you had an image for your Gravatar, but haven’t yet set an image for your blavatar, that would explain why your avatar image appears to be missing in the WordPress reader.

That’s easy to fix:

  • Go to your blog’s Admin page.
  • Click on Settings (look on the left column toward the bottom). Choose General.
  • At the top right, find Blog Picture / Icon.
  • Click the Browse button. Find the image file you’d like to use for your blog avatar (blavatar).
  • Click the Upload Image button.
  • Crop your image. (Or just leave it the way it is and click Crop anyway.)

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About Elle Knowles

Elle Knowles lives in the Florida Panhandle with her husband and off-at-college-most-of-the-time son. She has four daughters, one son, and eleven beautiful grandchildren. 'Crossing the Line' is her first novel. The sequel 'What Line' is a work in progress. Recently published is Coffee-Drunk Or Blind - a nonfiction story of homesteading in the Alaska wilderness with her parents and four siblings, told through letters by her mother and remembered accounts from the family.

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