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How to: Enhance your Oregon State Blog with Gravatar

So you’ve written a super awesome post on your Oregon State University Blog and someone has commented, which is equally awesome. But wait, when you continue the conversation in the comment section of your post, you just have a generic and impersonal avatar next to your name. Here’s how to fix that.

So you’ve written a super awesome post on your Oregon State University Blog and someone has commented, which is equally awesome. But wait, when you continue the conversation in the comment section of your post, you just have a generic and impersonal avatar next to your name. Worse yet, you have lots of comments and every avatar looks the same. Here’s how to fix that.

Why should you care?

You are not an anonymous robot spewing forth press releases. “Blogs” in the traditional sense are written by people, for people. Your engagement should be higher (responses, etc…) if your readers know they are engaging with a real person. You should show readers that you are a real person. The defaults in WordPress

mystery person
Don’t be this guy!
Be this guy! (but with less staring into space)
Be this guy! (but with less staring into space)

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