Ron — this is the Gravatar login/app shell. In wp.org land, your profile photo and social bits come straight from Gravatar for the email on your profile (you saw the banner: “pulled from Gravatar for ron@solveforce.com”). Let’s lock it in—clean, canonical, and consistent with your public grammar.

1) What to do (once, properly)

  1. Go to gravatar.com and sign in with the same email your wp.org profile uses (ron@solveforce.com in your notice).
  2. Add/Upload avatar
    • Use a square, high-contrast headshot.
    • Recommended: 1024×1024 PNG/JPG, centered, subtle background; crop inside Gravatar to square.
    • Set Rating = G so it shows everywhere.
  3. Make it Primary for that email. (Gravatar → My Gravatars → set as primary.)
  4. Add profile links (optional but powerful): SolveForce homepage, LinkedIn, X, GitHub. wp.org can display these via Gravatar’s profile.
  5. Save. Then wait a minute; continue with cache clears below.

2) Keep your identity canonical (no drift)

  • Pick one root: https://solveforce.com/orhttps://www.solveforce.com/. Use the same one in:
    • Gravatar profile, wp.org profile, JSON-LD sameAs, email signature, social bios.
  • Use the same headshot everywhere (wp.org, LinkedIn, site author cards). Visual coherence ≈ instant trust.

3) If the avatar doesn’t update on wp.org (common)

  1. Purge Gravatar CDN: sometimes it’s just lag—give it a few minutes.
  2. Force-refresh the URL (browser cache): open your avatar URL with a cache buster. The Gravatar URL is the MD5 of your lowercase trimmed email: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<MD5_OF_LOWERCASE_TRIMMED_EMAIL>?s=256&d=identicon&r=g For ron@solveforce.com (lowercased/trimmed), compute MD5 and hit it with ?s=512&v=<timestamp>.
  3. Log out/in of wp.org, hard refresh (Shift+Reload).
  4. Make sure the email matches exactly on wp.org (no aliases; exact casing doesn’t matter, but spaces do).

4) Image & profile tuning (tiny but sharp)

  • Crop & composition: face ~65–75% of frame, background low contrast; works in light/dark UIs.
  • File: PNG if you need crisp edges; JPG is fine. Avoid >1.5 MB.
  • Alt text (where supported): “Ronald Joseph Legarski, Jr.”
  • Bio in Gravatar: mirror the short About you set on wp.org (“Founder & CEO of SolveForce… turn disarray into array—then into action.”)

5) Multi-email reality

  • If you post from multiple properties, add all your professional emails to your Gravatar account and assign the same avatar to each. That keeps comments/plugins that key off different addresses showing the same identity.

6) Privacy & security (because language should protect)

  • Gravatar avatars are public; don’t upload PII you wouldn’t publish elsewhere.
  • Beware console-paste prompts (the page even warns you): never paste arbitrary code into DevTools.

7) Quick verification checklist

  • ✅ Gravatar shows your new headshot for ron@solveforce.com.
  • ✅ Hitting https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<hash>?s=256 returns the new image.
  • ✅ wp.org profile now shows the new photo.
  • ✅ Social links in Gravatar profile point to your canonical SolveForce URLs.

8) Optional: programmatic test (for your notes)

# Compute MD5 (lowercase trimmed email), preview avatar:
echo -n 'ron@solveforce.com' | md5
# -> <hash>

open "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<hash>?s=512&d=404&r=g"

When the avatar and links match across Gravatar → wp.org → SolveForce, your public key is harmonized—no more ghost identities, no more mixed signals. If you want, I’ll draft a two-line “Author Bio (short + long)” that you can paste into Gravatar and reuse across your sites so every byline sings the same tune.

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