December 24, 2009 | Blogging, HowTo

Your Gravatar account can have more than one e-mail associated with it.

Gravatars are so-called “Globally Recognized Avatars” which allow you to show your choice of image (photo, drawing, whatever) alongside the comments you make on your own or others’ WordPress blogs.

You might find it handy to have multiple e-mails associated with your Gravatar account:

• to avoid every blog out there from knowing your main e-mail (remember, WordPress is often hacked).
• to avoid allow you to section off the damage if one of your e-mail addresses becomes compromised. If you get spam addressed to a given address, you can block just that one e-mail.
• to post to different categories of blogs with different pictures. For example, a dignified picture for responding to work-related blogs, and a fun one for personal comments on various blogs.

To start, go to gravatar.com, log in and select “Add an Email Address” from the “My Account” menu.

Gravatar asks you for the e-mail to add:

Enter the e-mail address you want to add, and hit Enter. Gravatar doesn’t add the e-mail automatically, but rather sends a confirmation e-mail to the address you entered. This is to prevent people from associated e-mail addresses that they don’t own:

Go to your e-mail account, and go to the confirmation link in the e-mail that Gravatar sent you:

Gravatar will activate the e-mail for use with Gravatar and then ask you to select an image to use with that e-mail (if you have more than one image):

Select an image, and confirm it:

OK, now you’ve added another e-mail to use with your Gravatar account. And you can keep your main e-mail (that you used to sign up with Gravatar) private.

Resources

Blogs covering adding multiple e-mail addresses to a Gravatar account include the WordPress blog and Leonid Mamchenkov.

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9 Responses to “How to Add an E-mail to a Gravatar Account”

1. Kiawah says:

   January 7, 2010 at 5:32 am

   Thanks for the tips they were helpful.
2. orionmoquin says:

   January 7, 2010 at 9:48 am

   Appreciate it, was looking for something along the lines of this for a while.
3. nexus says:

   January 8, 2010 at 6:38 am

   Can you provide more information on this?
4. Chris A. says:

   January 9, 2010 at 11:05 pm

   I admit, I have not been on this site in a long time… all the same it was another joy to see It is such important topic and avoided by so many, even expert. I thank you to assist making people more mindful of possible issues.
5. Digitivity says:

   January 10, 2010 at 9:01 pm

   @nexus, yes, I’ll be providing basic information on what Gravatar is, as well as some information on how Gravatar e-mails can be hacked later. Be sure to subscribe to the Digitivity RSS Feed for updates.
6. Digitivity says:

   January 10, 2010 at 9:02 pm

   @Kiawah, no problem. Most people don’t know that you can have more than one e-mail associated with a Gravatar account.
7. Nelson says:

   January 27, 2010 at 4:30 am

   While I was doing some browsing and noticed your website looks a bit confused in my netcape internet browser. I think I’m the only one still using it….
8. Digitivity says:

   January 28, 2010 at 1:48 am

   @Nelson, well Firefox is free, and you should consider upgrading from Netscape to Firefox: http://getfirefox.com

   Anyway, welcome to Digitivity, and be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
9. Sabina Eder says:

   January 28, 2010 at 1:58 pm

   Nice website youve got there. I didnt know what comment luv did until i found this website on yahoo so i will add it to my own website.