Gravatar Hovercards
Contents
- Gravatar Hovercards
- To see a Hovercard
- To see your own Hovercard
- To turn Hovercards off on your blog
- To turn off Hovercards for all WordPress.com sites
- Re-enabling disabled Hovercards
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Gravatar Hovercards
A Gravatar is your profile on the web, and the Hovercard is one way your information is made visible to others. It’s an easy way to help people find your blog, or access your identity on other services like twitter, facebook, or linkedin.
To see a Hovercard
Hovercards appear when you place your mouse over any Gravatar. Here’s an example of what it looks like:
The more information you put into your Gravatar profile, the better they will look. The above image is a fully complete profile. If you have less information in yours, your Hovercard will be smaller and less cool looking.
To see your own Hovercard
Go to to Settings-Discussions in your Dashboard, and scroll down to the Avatar section. You will see a sample of your own Hovercard. Or look at any comment you have left on another WordPress.com blog.
To turn Hovercards off on your blog
You can turn off Hovercards by going to Settings-Discussions, and scroll down to the Avatar section. You’ll see a checkbox for Gravatar Hovercards. This will disable hovercards on your blog.
To turn off Hovercards for all WordPress.com sites
As a visitor you can disable all Hovercards by clicking on Turn off hovercards in the bottom right corner of any Hovercard.
Note that this only disables it for you, not for anyone else.
Re-enabling disabled Hovercards
To re-enable Hovercards that have been disabled with the Turn off hovercards option you will need to delete the cookie nohovercard from the domain .wordpress.com.
If you are unsure about how to clear individual cookies you can visit this site for details of removing cookies for various browsers.
Last modified: October 6, 2010
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