[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16020: Upload custom avatar for user in Dashboard

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#16020: Upload custom avatar for user in Dashboard
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 Reporter:  computerwiz908                     |       Owner:  nacin
     Type:  feature request                    |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Users                              |  Release
 Severity:  minor                              |     Version:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback has-patch 2nd-opinion  |  Resolution:
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Changes (by beaulebens):

 * cc: beau@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:40 scribu]:
 > Maybe a better course of action would be to lobby the Gravatar
 developers (i.e. Automattic?) to release some sort of API which opens an
 iframe/lightbox/whatever for users to create/change their image, instead
 of having to go to Gravatar.com to do it, which is quite a confusing
 workflow.

 You could load gravatar.com in a thickboxed iframe right now, we actually
 do something like that on WordPress.com. Signup would still be an issue
 though (and there are no plans to provide a signup API). Because we need
 to verify ownership of an email address before we can assign it to an
 account, there needs to be some involvement with Gravatar.com there.

 We've talked about possibly making the signup flow easier to integrate
 with other (non-Gravatar) sites, but haven't come up with a good solution
 to that yet that still includes the verification step.

 As a sidenote, you can link here to slightly improve the signup process:
 https://gravatar.com/site/signup/email%40domain.com

 And check if a user has an existing Gravatar by requesting this, with the
 0's replaced with the user's email hash:
 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/00000000000000000000000000000000?d=404
 (default = 404 response)

 There is also an XMLRPC API for working with Gravatar, although to be
 honest it doesn't get much attention since I don't believe many folks use
 it. Obviously that would change if WP core started using it.
 http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/xmlrpc/

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