You have seen it in most WordPress blogs: If the commenter’s profile does not come with its own gravatar, the Mystery Man icon is shown instead. Kind of ugly, isn’t it?

What if you can add your own custom gravatar and make it show up in the comments, won’t that be a good way to beautify your blog as well as brand yourself?

Luckily, in WordPress, this can be easily done. You might need to dabble into some coding, but I assure you that it is just a matter of copy/paste the code into the correct files and some minor editing. Follow along and we will guide you through.
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