Avatar/Display Pic/Whatever you wanna call it

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HOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW do you upload one?! Ive spent an hour fiddling with my pics trying to get them to size and get the pixels right. All I have achieved is cursing my laptop, the site, and windows picture viewer. Surely you specifications mean you must have something specific in mind - because I'm struggling here.

All you need is an image of type jpg, png or gif which has a width no larger than 130 pixels, and a height no larger than 160 pixels - and an overall file size no larger than 15.77 Kb.


To use such a file on your PC as your avatar, click on "My Account" (at the top right of any WP screen), click "Edit Profile", then scroll down to the Avatar Control Panel section at the end.

Next to the section headed "Upload Avatar from your machine:" is "Upload Through Forum Profile" - it's underlined because it's a link, so click on that and on the next screen which appears, click on the "Browse..." button at the end of the screen, next to "Upload Avatar from your machine:"

Find the file on your PC using the dialog which now appears and "Ok" it, which will return you to the previous screen where you should now see the name of the file you chose in the white box to the left of the "Browse.." button.

Click on the "Submit" button, which should bring you back to the Avatar Control Panel, so click on the "Save Avatar" button.