Gravatar

WordPress uses Gravatar for commenter avatars — this is common knowledge. But have you noticed that Gravatar avatars have an empty Alt attribute?...

For commenters who haven’t set up a Gravatar avatar, WordPress displays one of the default avatars you’ve configured in the backend — options like...

Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar,” and mainstream blogging systems like WordPress all use Gravatar avatars by default. Lately,...