If you often comment on websites and blogs, or you are a blogger yourself, a Gravatar profile picture for WordPress is well worth setting up. You only need to register once, and it helps you leave your own mark on the online community. Let’s look at what Gravatar does and add your profile picture!
Benefits of a Gravatar profile picture
- Personal brand recognition: When your profile picture and nickname show up often across websites and blogs, people gradually become familiar with your personal brand. If you regularly share useful content and help others, people will be happy to chat with you whenever you show up.
- Build trust: Just like on Facebook, an account without a profile picture looks fake and feels less trustworthy than a real one.
- Make your comments stand out: Most people who comment on websites and blogs have no profile picture, so if you have one, your comments will catch more attention.
- Used on hundreds of millions of websites: 41.7% of websites in the world use the WordPress platform (2021). You only need to register your Gravatar profile picture once to use it when commenting on a huge number of websites and blogs.
Add a Gravatar profile picture for WordPress
Pick a nice photo of yourself and follow the illustrated steps below.
Note (October 2026): The steps and screenshots below show the Gravatar interface from 2021. Gravatar has since redesigned its sign-up and made it simpler: go to gravatar.com, click Sign Up, enter your email address, then click the confirmation link in your inbox. Gravatar still links to a WordPress.com account behind the scenes, but you no longer have to register one separately as shown here. After signing up, Gravatar lets you upload a photo right away, or you can add one later in the Avatars section of the profile editor. To change the rating (G, PG, R, X), click the three-dot button on the image and choose Change rating. Button names may differ from the screenshots, but the key idea is the same: use the email you comment with and keep the image rated G.
Step 1: Go to gravatar.com and click Create Your Own Gravatar.
Step 2: You will be redirected to the WordPress.com sign-up page. Create an account there.
Use the email address you usually use when commenting on websites and blogs.
Step 3: You will receive an activation email. Click Activate Account.
Step 4: Go back to Gravatar and click Sign In.
Step 5: Click Add a new image.
Step 6: Choose your image source. To upload a photo from your computer, select Upload new.
Step 7: Select the image file on your device and click Continue.
Step 8: Adjust the crop area and check the preview on the right. When it looks good, click Crop Image.
Step 9: Choose the rating G, which is the one most websites and blogs display, then click Set Rating to finish.
Step 10: Review your profile picture. You can also add more email addresses so they all use the same picture.
Conclusion
Once you’ve created your Gravatar profile picture, feel free to leave a comment below this article or any other article on Lucid Gen to see how your avatar appears!
