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It was an odd journey to replace the grey faceless icon with my picture. WordPress.com has a system whereby its sites retrieve a person’s profile from the associated site called: Gravatar. This forum will show someone’s image if they link their account here to their profile with Gravatar. It took me a long time to figure out how to make that work.
Eventually I found this useful article: How to change my user avatarI have lots of WordPress.com sites. I picked the one that includes a couple of almost-forgotten sites:
adventurebegins.wordpress.com/
rjballantyne.wordpress.comThe image for that Gravatar was over a decade out of date, so I uploaded a new one. My profile for this site was supposed to use that Gravatar, but it didn’t.
It turns out that the email I use for this site must be the same as I use for the Gravatar. The Gravatar’s email is ballantyne@ballantyne.com. I changed my user profile at this site to use that email address, and the Gravatar works.
Since, to be able to access my Gravatar image, I had to change my email address, this WordPress site required me to prove that I really did have control of the new email address. The change was not complete until it sent me an email and I confirmed receipt. I was interested to see what were the contents of a robot email from this site. Here is what arrived.
From: WordPress
Subject: [Social Profit Institute] Email Change Request
Date: September 2, 2020 at 6:29:20 PM PDT
To: [email address redacted]Howdy RobertB,
You recently requested to have the email address on your account changed.
If this is correct, please click on the following link to change it:
https://socialprofitinstitute.com/ [code redacted]You can safely ignore and delete this email if you do not want to
take this action.This email has been sent to [email address redacted]
Regards,
All at Social Profit Institute
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