Quick update: I’ve fixed the problem of disappearing Gravatars and Wavatars. If you have a Gravatar,  an image from your uploaded gallery will no longer supercede it. The downside is, you can’t supercede it, but if you really want to change your avatar, just change it at Gravatar.

The same change brought back the Wavatars. Yippee! The downside is, this plugin really wants to give you an avatar, so if you upload an image, it will be your avatar, like it or not. So…if you want to keep your wavatar, make sure you right click and save it before uploading any pictures, then upload it to your gallery and choose it as your avatar. I’d suggest doing it in the Pub, since those are bigger images.

At least, I think this will work…going to check out this theory….

Well…saving the image worked. OTOH…er…those who have tried to supercede the wavatar with an uploaded image are now back to the wavatars. ARGH!!!!!! I’ve got to figure how to fix this. ..

Phooey…going back to the way it was. I’ve saved down the wavatars for everyone who still had them and put them in as default avatars for those who remain anonymous. If you’d rather have the Captain default image, just go into your gallery and delete the wavatar. If you have a wavatar and want a different avatar, for right now you’ll have to upload an avatar to your gallery. And if you have a Gravatar and want to upload other images into your gallery, you’ll need to make your gravatar image one of your images.

dizzyAre we having fun yet?

Hang in there, folks. We’ll make this work!

I’m trying a new plugin. “The Pub” should be available to all registered users. There’s nothing there right now except a listing of the registered users, but it should eventually provide a “conversation pit” for all you lovely folk. (This isn’t a live chat, just threaded messaging that’s semi-private.) Mainly, it gives the option of choosing your own avatar, uploading some pictures to share (not a lot, this isn’t flickr or anything like that) and in general giving the site a few more options.

To load an avatar, go to your dashboard (the page that comes up when you log in) and check out the user options on the left hand side bar. One is your Profile, where you can change your password and such, and one is your Gallery. Go to the gallery, upload the image you want to use for your avatar and it will give you the option to choose it as your avatar.

For those who have grown fond of their wavatars, I’ve got a query to the plugin designer to find out how to get those back. They aren’t lost, merely hiding. The Wavatar is somehow linked to your email. I’ve got a query to the wavatar designer to find out if the wavatar dice can be rerolled.

Time to go skate. More later.

Answer on the Wavatar…no, it can’t be changed. It’s actually determined by the email itself. I’m not quite sure I understand correctly, but I think that certain elements are linked to certain features…like “em” in the email might equate to “green” and “it” might correspond to “round glasses.” It’s really extremely clever!

I’m still working on getting the default to be your wavatar. Meantime, I’m going to go make a much more interesting default. Maybe load some default options and see if I can make it so you can choose one.

Off to play with avatars…