sonnywp

Is not the gravatar website URL gravatar.com built into the main WordPress code itself as well? outside the theme,

THIS IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION ON BEFORE GOING LIVE WITH WORDPRESS, I WOULD HAVE BEEN LIVE ALREADY IF NOT FOR THIS.

so when I came upon this tread I had to add my two cents this makes me start to wonder what else is in the there like this

Pretty good thing that gravatar.com has going, by providing that gravatar service they are basically tracking your hits, page views, category’s and content and are able to follow you from blog to blog and forums, they could put together some profile on you whenever they want. I know you could jump through hoops, using another email username etc, but how many out there really will?

Defenders! Do not even try to dispel this, it is a fact every time a gravatar is displayed there own website logs record it and the identifying url, and if anybody thinks they do not keep a database on this you are insane!!!

I find it very odd, there is no WordPress option to offer a regular everyday avatar upload at the least, or a fix to completely fumigate this gravartar.com service from a wordpress blog

simply Turning that off will stop the displaying but not the page hit counting and there site contact

Some my like this service, I do not have a problem with that, some people out there use there full name as email addresses to each there own, But this should be a optional plugin ONLY and should never be rooted in the WordPress code or anywhere else

JMO

Thanks that’s good to know, I tested a bunch of blogs this week I decided on WordPress I pretty much got the hang of things in no time, as you might guess I am very paranoid about security, if I cannot create a theme I will get it from this site only, I like the default theme in general if not for that big page oversize header image, I tried to slim it down but its tied into other things as well and there’s no psd like file in there to modify the image itself.

Thanks for helping out

The Keyword being “Most”

With my luck I’ll pick the one that is not compatible
adding a compatibility filter option is something to
think about for the future.

I was also reading about encoded theme files, does WordPress
check to make sure themes submitted to the site, do not
contain them? this would also be great to know.

But for now I’ll stick with the default, just testing anyway
WordPress is very impressive.

Thanks
Sonny