Mike Southby

If like me you spent a whole heap of time in the admin options of WordPress trying to figure out how to add an avatar to your local user account, you’ll be pleased to know it’s actually really simple even though it doesn’t explain how to do it within the WordPress console itself.

All you need to do is set yourself up with a Gravatar profile.  Yes really that’s it.  Easy.

Gravatar seems to act as a central avatar database amongst WordPress users and so long as you ensure you use the same email address when you comment on others blogs, your avatar will also appear there too.