One of my goals as an amateur (charming, of course) blog fanatic lover is to gain wisdom on the craft of blogging. Sometimes it is easy to overlook little items our readers see as they scroll through our blog pages.
If you use an iPhone to follow favorite blogs or web sites, adding their blog icon to your phone’s home screen avoids unnecessary repetitive search time when you want to return to their sites.
As I added favorite blog sites to my phone, I noticed something interesting.
WordPress blog sites that upload with a custom blog image icon distinguish themselves over the ones using just the general WordPress icon – small yet mighty…
Well, you know, in my ignorance, I too sported the general WP icon, but not anymore. Thanks to WordPress Support and One Cool Site – Gravatar, Avatar, Blavatar, I discovered (took me long enough), the Blavatar.
The following is a brief look on the term, Blavatar, its usage, and how to upload a custom image for your site.
First, a blavatar is a WordPress term that combines two words:
Blog + Avatar=Blavatar.
A Blavatar appears in the following places:
1. Browser’s address bar and browser tabs
2. When you send a pingback, it appears in the blog’s comment section
3. As a bookmark and icon on iPhone/iPad home screen
Whether you choose to customize your Blavatar is purely your call. If you want your blog site to stand out, however, this is a small step in that direction.
Feel brave…Upload your custom Blavatar:
(Time saver tip – have an image in your computer file ready to load. The recommendation is 128 x 128 pixels image. There is a crop image feature if your selection is not perfect before the upload.)
1. Go to the side bar of your Dashboard→ Settings→General
2. Once in General, you should see: Blog Picture/Icon
3. Click on button: Choose File or Browse (depends on your browser)
4. Find the image from your computer file
5. Click: Upload Image ~ Congratulations!
What are your thoughts on the small yet mighty, Blavatar?
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Beautiful and informative post Sushine. 😀
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❤ Your support gives me great encouragement, Sonel! Thanks 😊
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You’re very welcome hon. 😀 *hugs*
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PS: I forgot to say how much I enjoyed the video! Using “Chuck Norris” as an example! 😆
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i thought it was some dude with a hat and the speaker in the video…ha-ha. actually looks a bit like Clint Eastwood. 🙂
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He does hey? I laughed at the part where he showed an “example” of Chuck’s blog that says : “I am Chuck” and then the part that says “I am Chuck” … I will save you all. whahahahaha!
And then the one that comments and says “Chuck sucks” and “The Voice of Reason” says : “You really don’t want to be messing with Chuck, my friend.” and then the comment after that. I laughed myself silly! 😆
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oh, my gosh, Sonel…you send me into hysterical laugh mode!! i have to start reading the comment sections now… 😆
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Whahahaha! Glad you enjoyed. 😀 *hugs*
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PS: Posted the link under my WordPress help on http://sonelcorner.wordpress.com/links-and-resources/. Thanks hon! 😀
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😄 I’m honored for the link up, Sonel. Maybe we will see waves of Blavatars go up!! 😍 Thanks again!!!!
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I am sure we will hon and you are welcome. 😀 *hugs*
PS: Do you see my blavatar?
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Yes! Yours was the one that made me think…huh, how did Sonel get lucky with her own phone icon image Lol…😄
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LOL! Glad to hear that hon and I am sure everyone is running to their blogs checking if they have their blavatars to everyone can see it as well! 😀 *hugs*
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ha-ha!!! ☼sunHUGS!
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*hugs*
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Thank you so much for the re-blog!!! 😍
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You are very welcome hon. 😀 *hugs*
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I think I need to look into this. Never heard of this.
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It’s easy to create one, Colline. Glad you found this useful. 😊
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Hi Sunshine,
Your article is well written and thanks so much for backlinking to mine in it. I hope you have a lovely weekend.
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You’re welcome…and wishing you a peaceful Sunday. ☺
Thank you!!
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I didn’t realize this had a special name. It took me awhile after I started my blog to figure it out, but I added a Blavatar awhile back. It does make a difference.
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you are one smart pooch, Bongo!! thanks for visiting 🙂
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Reblogged this on Sonel's Corner and commented:
A lovely and well written tutorial written by Sunshine about the “Blavatar” Icon. If you don’t have one, make sure to go to her post and follow the easy steps. :
Thanks Sunshine! 😀
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that’s really cool … came over from Sonel’s blog 🙂
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Sweet! Sonel is a sweetheart! ❤
Thanks for visiting 😊
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PS: I see the comment nesting is a bit on the thin side when we have too many replies on one comment Sunshine. I’ve had that problem too but then I fixed it by going to Discussion Settings and changing the “Enable threaded (nested) comments to (3) levels deep. Try and see what it does hon. 😀 *hugs*
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hi, Sonel…do you mean to change to the level #3? right now it is on #10. okay, going to change to (3) levels deep. Thanks!! 🙂
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