Avatars
Avatar, Blavatar, Image, Profile, User
According to Wikipedia, “an avatar is a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego.” An avatar is usually a small image used to depict a user’s online presence or identity.
On WordPress.com, an Avatar is associated with a user. If you have set an avatar, it will be displayed when you post to the forums, when you comment on blogs, and if your post is display in the WordPress.com community features.
A Blavatar is a term we came up with by combining Blog + Avatar. A Blavatar is an image associated with a blog. It will be displayed as the favicon for your blog, which shows up in a browser’s address bar and on browser tabs. It will show up in the comments section of a blog if you send out any pingbacks. If anyone create a shortcut to your blog on their iPhone it will also be used as the icon there.
