Edit Gravatar Everywhere – The Quick Editor

Let users edit their Gravatar profiles directly within your application, with changes syncing automatically across all Gravatar-enabled platforms.

Overview

While Gravatar powers user avatars across OpenAI, Slack, WordPress, Atlassian, Zapier, and other platforms, profile editing was previously limited to Gravatar.com. The Quick Editor brings profile management directly into your application.

How It Works

The Quick Editor follows a familiar OAuth-style flow:

1. User clicks an edit button in your application
2. Authentication popup appears requesting email and verification code
3. User edits their profile (avatar, bio, location, social links)
4. User returns to your application with updated profile

You control which profile elements users can view and edit. The interface clearly indicates that changes affect the user’s global Gravatar profile.

Implementation Options

Web Applications

Add a link or button that triggers the Quick Editor popup:

Mobile Apps

Use our native SDKs to implement the Quick Editor flow.

Features

• Avatar Management: Skip building custom image upload systems – let users manage their Gravatar directly
• Extended Profile Data: Access verified user data like bio, location and social media links
• Automatic Updates: When users update their Gravatar profile anywhere, changes propagate to your platform

Benefits

The Quick Editor is designed to significantly enhance the user experience around Gravatar on third-party platforms:

Simplifying Avatar Management: Gravatar provides a default avatar, but users expect to edit their avatar directly on their profile. Traditionally, platforms needed to develop their own image upload systems, even though Gravatar provides a default image solution. The Quick Editor eliminates the need for platforms to create an avatar upload feature from scratch.

Unlocking more profile features: Beyond just avatars, Gravatar provides user profile data including bio, location, and verified social media links. People would expect to edit these data fields. The Gravatar Quick Editor would allow platforms to fully integrate rich user profile features, without the heavy lifting of building form components or managing this data themselves.

Keeping User Profiles Up to Date: Outdated or empty user profiles are a pain for everyone. By supporting rich Gravatar profiles third-parties can ensure their users’ profiles would always be up to date. This improves user experience, benefits marketing partners, and enhances user experience customization.

Getting Started

For third-party apps, integrating the Quick Editor can be as simple as adding a link to their user interface. Mobile applications can implement one of our SDKs.

See the Quick Editor implementation guide here.

The Gravatar Quick Editor Library

• Gravatar Quick Editor

We offer a JavaScript library for the Gravatar Quick Editor, allowing users to integrate this functionality seamlessly into their web applications. This library enables easy editing of Gravatar profiles through a popup window. It includes both a core class for advanced control and a simplified class for quick setup. For detailed information, please refer to our GitHub documentation.