Gravatar…

So messing around with wordpress…I don’t do it that often.  I manage to make changes to my site now and again but staying on the cutting edge is only important to me really when it comes to security.  Most of the time changes on my site require me to redo something almost from scratch.  One thing I noticed the other day when changing my theme was that the avatar images were showing up.  My only issue was there isn’t a way to upload images to the site for people to choose from or for them to upload themselves.  I decided to do a quick search and found out that wordpress supports a site called Gravatar that uses your email address to link to all wordpress sites to use the same avatar.  Pretty convenient but not really what I was working for.  I guess overall it works and I can see why it would be preferred.  I have ample room on my site for you to upload your avatar, but I probably don’t want it there.  This keeps your stuff off my server but lets you customize how you want to use your avatar.  A win/win situation on both of our parts.