They block xml-rpc here. It is commonly used by the Wordpress app on ios or android, and other third-party apps. (WA doesn't support the Wordpress app because they block xml-rpc, due to security concerns) Is this a blog hosted here at WA? You might need to contact Site Support.
There could be a plugin interfering with things.

@lanita1 234 im the same when i tried to open then disappear

Hello, Dana888,
I had so many problems with leaving comments or reviews because my email address had my name. Opened a Gravatar account & nobody told me anything about my name being part of my email. My website suffered because of this. Finally, a newbie told me I am allowed to have 10 Gmail emails. I set-up a new Gmail without my name. Still, that wasn't enough I had to have a different picture. Which everything was set-up at Gravatar but they were having problems trying to update my photo. Now it's 4;30 in the morning all I accomplished today was a new Gmail email.
I keep telling myself to stay positive. My brain gets wacky when I don't have enough sleep.

Good Luck,
RPalinkas

Thanks for that and I am wondering if they want to make things idfficult or if it is just difficult.
Thanks for your honesty.
Dana

I know the feeling Dana. I just spent an hour on this guys website and then wrote a page review and I guess I lost it because of this gravatar??? That's the second time I have lost my review comments. Someone needs to change this. And I still haven't got this yet. Oh well what's a girl gonna do.

So I can't use my regular email or my profile picture? I have a new email now but if they would let me pull some from facebook would be nice cause I have a lot on it. I lost two of my comments because I wasn't aware of this Gravatar.

i've had the same problems with this requirement and has hung me up for days and still havent progressed. They dont seem to get it

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/comments/requests - you get credits here for leaving comments.

Wow, you've been the most helpful person since I started here.
I really am grateful for your help. Been spinning my head, no wonder around.
No wonder why I got a migraine.

To Your Continued Success,
Rose

I still don't have mine changed either. It keeps telling me my passwords don't match but no where to correct this either. Very confused.

I had the same issue (telling me my password doesn't match)

You can have multiple Gravatars with multiple email addresses. One has to be primary to identify your main account.
The company that runs http://WordPress.com also runs Gravatar. So you are required to use http://WordPress.com to create a Gravatar, even if you don't have a http://WordPress.com website. Since you already have an old website on http://WordPress.com, that complicates things a bit for you.
You can attach new Gravatars to your old account, that would be the simplest thing to do. You associate your new Gravatar to WA, and can then get credit for SiteComments.
If you log out of your old http://WordPress.com account or perhaps do this in Incognito Mode or Private Browsing mode of your internet browser, you can create a new account with a new email, if you really don't want to use the old one.

Make sure you actually upload a picture for your Gravatar. I have heard that if you use a default image it won't work. It doesn't have to be your own face if you like being more anonymous. You can use a kitty or whatever you like to build as your persona.

Also, there is a rating on the picture. I guess this is for adult blogs, LOL. Make sure you rate your profile pic as "G". Some people rate PG, and they can't use SiteComments.

Edit: one other thing. I also have set up an email forward to personal email. When I tried to set up a Gravatar for the forwarding address, I never got a confirmation email. You can do one of two things here. You can do what I did, and temporarily switch your email to a non-forwarding address like your personal email, and then switch it back once you confirm (what I did) Or you can contact Site Support. Other people have reported that working for them.

Foobard, I'm so sorry I'm just now reading this. Thank you so much! Someone understood what I was talking about. Whew!!! I will definitely try this out tomorrow (I am so done for the day lol). I really appreciate it. I'm also following you. Man! I really need someone I can connect with when things get crazy complicated in here. Thanks again.

It's how they track your comments. Feel free to comment without the Gravatar, but you just won't get credit for it. Not really a big deal.

Thanks for explaining so patiently.

I was frustrated at the time because the whole thing turned into a much longer job than anticipated. Nearly 16 minutes of video instruction on how to set up a gravatar plus thinking what kind of image to use, since I have websites in different niches...

Yes, It can be frustrating! Especially waiting for the verification email...

I think you have one Gravatar account, but then you can hook up different gravatars to it. I have one right now, but I just started a new site, and I'm about to hook up another one to my account.

Using email forwards makes running multiple personalities much easier. I used to have to check 5 different email accounts! Now it all goes to one, and I can send as any of the personalities from one email account. Much easier.

Many thanks for all your advice. You've been really helpful! I'll put this on my to do list for tomorrow and hope it goes smoothly.

A lot of people have this problem. That's what I did to fix it also. I think WA filters it out in their spam for some reason.

Thanks for posting your fix.

It IS optional. True, if you don’t do it, you’ll miss out on some stuff, but you don’t need a Gravatar to be successful.
You can always skip it and come back to it later, if you wish.

Just try it. What’s the worst that can happen?
If you run into troubles, post it here. To get the best help, post as much as you can about what you tried to do. No one working for free wants to ask a million questions to drag pertinent information from someone.
Good luck!

I had the same question as PMurray1 after I watched the video and you've answered my question when I scrolled down:)
Thanks

Thanks. I find myself answering the same questions over and over. Thanks for scrolling down!

I don't have a background in computers and I was able to set up my gravatar in a matter of moments. Basically all you need is a Wordpress account which is free, all you do is sign up with an email address, it will ask for a donation but one is not required, once you get your confirmation email, you will be directed right back to Gravatar and then you will simply upload a picture of yourself and it's that easy. Really it is. I think it took about 5 minutes tops. Hope that helps.

Maybe you are simply smarter and more intelligent than I am. Do not discount that possibility.
I set up my gravatar account weeks ago.

I feel your frustration - have just hit exactly the same hurdle. Since I'd already spent a lot of time looking at the person's webpage, I just left her a comment on her site - not through Site Comments - without a gravatar. Why, oh why can't it be optional!!!

It's finding a suitable picture... When you get to my age you tend to take pictures of grandchildren etc... but I really don't have many of myself.

Yes, you can change the email in your Gravatar. I had the same problem where the verification email from Gravatar never arrived until I fixed it by temporarily changing it to my personal email. I then switched it back to my site email forward once it was verified.

thanks Foobard. it is you again. i appreciate that. i will try and i will update you with the results. Best wishes

Haha, I didn't realize I gave you advice before on this, but I went back through the comments, and there it is, a month ago.
I get notified when new questions and comments are posted.
I hope you can get it working the way you want.

Have you created another user yet in your Wordpress dashboard? How to Create a New User in Wordpress Once you have done that, make sure you log into WordPress as "Steve", not "admin".

Thanks Steve,
Yep - went through the training 2 days ago, and got the "admin" flushed out yesterday. I do appreciate the help.
I owe you one...
Cheers,
Steve

You're supposed to use YOUR email for gravatar aren't you?

I got stagnated for about three weeks waiting for a confirmation email which never came through. Today I managed to get through. I used my personal email address and got the confirmation email immediately then I was able to log in to Gravatar, then I added my website email and changed it to primary email and now got the confirmation.

I hope this helps.

Yes, you need to verify the email you use for Gravatar. But you don't need your website fully set up to use an email on that domain. You don't mention if you set up an email forward or if you have WA hosting your email, but either would work.
Also, in my opinion, if you do get stuck on a lesson, you can often just skip it and keep going. if you don't get the gravatar set up, then you won't be able to use the Site Comments feature, but don't let that stop you. You can always come back to it later.

I appreciate your rapid response, Foobard. I think I need to go forward as advised and sort this out later. I am just about leaving the net when you responded. Thank you very much. All the best.
seth

Hi there! Looks like your email address isn't being recognized as an active Gravatar account. Have you set everything up on the Gravatar website and also within your Wordpress blog under users?

Hi Andrew, I did set everything up on the Gravatar website. I then tried to add the email address (registered with Gravatar) under my admin account within the 'users' page. However, the page still did not recognise my account. Will it be a good idea to delete the Gravatar account and re-register?

What happens when you try to add your registered email within your Wordpress profile? Do you get an error message?

it took a lot of zooming in to that screenshot, but it looks like you put your name in the email field, and your email address in the name field?

I have the same issue
thee Gravatar appeared on my profile inside website ( profile )
but when I made a comment ,,,, It did not show ...

I opened my website today and every thing is OK .

I will update again when I check on this.

Thanks I have found the source of the problem. This was because when I uploaded my personal image, I set my rating at PG. When I re-uploaded my image and set the rating at G, the image is recognised and so is my account! Ok problem resolved thanks!

Glad everything is sorted now!

Make sure you avatar account is a "G" rating for it to show up!

I did the same thing right now lol- just noticed you figured it out happy you fixed it!

I think we all learned something here!

I'm not sure if you are referring to my comment directly below, but if that fix doesn't work for you, I've heard others contacted Site Support for help on this. I'm assuming the account you have gravatar emailing the confirmation to is a forward or webmail address for your domain here at WA? If so, WA Site Support might be able to help. I think they are filtering the emails. The trick of temporarily changing the gravatar email address to a gmail and then changing it back gets around the filtering.

What email are you sending it to? Domain email or free email service like Gmail?

if you're sending to domain email try deleting the email, then creating a forward instead, and forwarding to a Gmail account.

Thanks Foobard. Sorry I wasn't referring to your post below - it was someone's lesson on how to get around this.

I signed up with both my gmail and my domain email which is forwarded straight to my gmail :)

Hi Nathaniell I signed up with my gmail account initially and i didn't get any confirmation email so I tried signing up again with my domain email which forwards directly to my gmail account. My WA domain email doesn't have an email account on WA it just forwards through to gmail.

I'll try deleting the forward and try again :) hopefully it comes through it's been more than 12 hours.

I've also emailed gravatar support hopefully I get a response soon.

You're welcome. Please reply back when you get it fixed, it might help someone else with the same problem. I probably wasted most of a day fixing my issue.

Hi there. I would just go through and check everything. Did you assign your Gravatar email address in the settings section of Site Rubix? I would also double check that your image has saved within your Gravatar account.

Hi Andrew, I have tried to go to Site Comments to add my Gravatar account. However, I am still stuck with the same issue. I believe adding an account on Site Comment platform is the last step towards clearing lesson 6. Kindly refer to screenshoot for your reference.

I have added my personal image on Gravatar but the website did not seem to recognise. Will appreciate if you can advise?

Create an email account by clicking on SiteRubix and look for email link and click on it. follow instructions. Use the search box above to find ways to do things in WA.

Type in search box above: How to create an email account

I am going to try starting all over again (I am half way through creating a Gravatar and got no confirmation email) by going to my website, creating a new email address that is not forwarded, and then try starting the creating a Gravatar process all over again. Thanks for your comments on this and I hope I have interpreted your solution correctly!

I notice when I sign up at SiteRubix area and go into Sitemanager I have a choice as going in as Admin or going in as Sharon so see if you have the options there. I always go is as Sharon of course as I like my name on my posts/comments etc

Yeah maybe you do, I cant remember that part! See if you have 2 sign ins where I just said above

Thank you , I'll try it . Cant remember seeing two sign ins though....stand by

I just went through the same thing.
On the admin page on my site, I added a nickname and then selected that from the "display name publicly" drop down box. Then I "refreshed" the page.
I changed my personal email address to the email address I used on my privacy policy page, and that helped.
Then I couldn't remember how to access that email! It isn't on the website; you have to access it from the Site Rubix page on WA. (it says Site Email on a bar across the top when you open it.)
Then I couldn't remember the password. (it's in the box labeled "password" and you have to click it, then copy it BEFORE you try to log yourself in, then paste it in the appropriate box once you get there. I wish you could just save your password to automatically appear after you put in your username.
It's finally done, and even though for me it was more like a scavenger hunt, it did refresh my memory about stuff we learned in previous lessons that I forgot.

Yes, it was complicated! There's a lot to learn, and I feel slowed down, too. But if these things will help my rankings and ultimately help me earn some money, I'm ok with it.

Thank you Igobeille!
Glad to see I wasnt the only one struggling ...and yes I do what you did trying to remember how/what we did a few lseeons ago but youre right it does force you to go back over stuff and re learn it ! I also have come to grips with the slowing down thing , if in the end it makes for a better outcome then thats the most important thing!!
Good luck!

Yes we are all looking for the light at the end of the tunnel..

Yes that Grvatar thing was a real trip.... even just getting my e-mails..

Yes that Grvatar thing was a real trip.... even just getting my e-mails..

Yes that Grvatar thing was a real trip.... even just getting my e-mails..

Same here kkwee....sooo frustrating, havent found the answer yet :(

It shouldn't be costing you anything? Mine was free.

Gravatar accounts are free. Maybe redo the lesson to get the email forwarding correct.

You can also search here for training in the white search box. I use Gmail and had to do it a few times cause I missed a step or two the first time.

If not, throw your question to the community. There's bound to be someone who's gone through the same thing who uses Yahoo.

You cannot use a forwarding email to receive your confirmation email, and your email must be a valid email. Via your Wordpress profile, update your email address if it is not valid. Go back to your Gravatar profile and use a valid email. A page from http://gravatar.com will appear for you to activate the new email.

I hope this is complete as I used this only once. Let me know if this works. And I accessed Gravatar on my website via my SiteRubix hosting.

NO??

Can you supply the URLs for us to see which site this is?

Hi, John!

How long has it been since the confirmation email was sent? There may be a delay.

You might try an email address that is no forwarded.

Gary

Well I tried it a couple of times then realised that I was supposed to have my website email send a link to my email in order to connect it for forwarding. So I did that and it said it had finally been set up to forward. Thing is, when I went back to send comments to other people's websites it still wouldn't accept my wordpress email. But isn't the email I set up with my website a wordpress email? Strange things haha. Can you tell I'm not tech savvy hahaha

Hi, John!

If it still not working, contact SiteRubix support. Thank goodness WA takes care of most of the Techie stuff. I'm marginal at best.

Gary

Hi John,

That just happened to me too. The cause for me was that I had entered the email address incorrectly. I went back to the page where Gravatar tells you what to do if confirmation email didn't generate. Somewhere in the left column of that page I was able to access my account and see my email address and saw I had entered the wrong one. It let me correct the address, and sent the email change letter to the right email with the confirmation/activation link. Hope you figure out what happened.

I had the same problem and frustraition

Go into site-Rubix manager
then look at the top you see site email
click on that

it will open the emails that you set up and if you didnt set one up yet go ahead and do so.

Then click on the email you would like to use (I set up a Me@mysite to only use as my gavatar email easy to remember)

then click on the sign in and copy your password

Proceed back to the gavatar site and input the information as per the training.

Hope this helps

My problems were much worse than that - really complicated. Gravatar is incredibly fussy about the email you use to sign up with them, and not in the least bit transparent about their secret rules.

1. It can't be an email that forwards to another email
2. Using an email associated with a wordpress account from the distant past (>5 years, causes weird problems)
3. Just removing the forward or deleting the old account will not clear the email problems initiated by circumstance 1 or 2

I was obliged to create a new email address that was entirely untainted by any previous problems in order to establish the Gravatar.

This is not my only headache with Wordpress. When it works it's idiot simple, but when it doesn't it takes hours or even days to find the solution and apply it.

I am very grateful to be at WA and have friendly folks like you to network and compare notes with. I can't imagine facing this alone!

Thanks for reaching out with a solution - it WILL help someone!

All the best,

Elizabeth

I hope your find resolve with this issue soon.

Hi Elizabeth.

I had the same problem, so I had to create a new email address and go through the process of opening a Gravatar account to that email address after I'd done all of this to an address with a forward.

Guess this discussion board proves we are not alone in our struggles, which does help!

Hopefully you are now making further progress and your headaches with Wordpress are less.

With best wishes for your online success.

Kaz :-)

Thanks. All the best to you as well. Thank you for reaching out!

Thanks Elizabeth,
you helped me out.
Didn´t receive a mail because the adress was forwaded to another mailadress.

Hi Lisa,

If you click on the siterubix icon on the left, select Site Manager - it will open the site builder page - click on site email (along the top, 2nd to the right) and you can create a new email address there for your http://homesafetyforbabies.com site.

With best wishes for your online success.

Kaz :-)

Hi Monika,

Gravatar will only work to an email address which isn't a forwarded email address. I had issues until this was pointed out to me, I then set up an email address within the SiteRubix purely for this (you could use admin@ or info@ as examples) which then worked.

Hope this helps.

Kaz :-)

Thank you so much Turbogirlie... yes that totally helped.
cheers
M

Thanks Turbogirlie.
That helped

Hi Monika,

No problem at all.

All the best,

Kaz :-)

Hi John,

The same thing happened to me, too. I have a site forwarding email to my personal email and I kept trying for days to have the Gravatar site resend me a notification because I would never get one.
I finally figured out that Gravatar hates forwarded emails so I resigned up under my main email account and I got a notification right away. It sucks because I wanted my website email to show up, but in the end I was getting super frustrated that it wasn't working. It was more trouble than it was worth.
Try using your yahoo mail or even better a gmail account. I used my gmail and it worked like a charm.

Hope that helps!
Ashley

Hello Ashley
I ended up doing the same thing and I feel exactly like you do, a bit frustrated that I can't use the email I want but I do have an activated account now so I'll just suck it up and move forward. Thanks for your reply and good luck!

Jon

Hi Jon,

You're welcome! The bummed out feeling ends up going away :)

Good luck and best of success in 2017!

Ashley

Thanks Ashley, that's saved me days of heartache, frustration and generally being bummed out with the entire situation!

All the best,

Kaz :-)

Hi Kaz,

You are very welcome! I'm glad I could help :) Good luck with your photography niche. It sounds super exiting and intriguing! I wish you a fantastic year in 2017 and I hope you fulfill your dreams of leaving that corporate job by year end!

All the best,
Ashley

Great! I'm still working with the Gravatar support to add my second email, which the system refuses to do. I'll be glad when this is over.

I happy that your situation seems to be resolved :)

Good luck with every thing and best of success!

AshleyFisher, someone from Gravatar replied to me and manually activated my account after I confirmed my email (simply by replying to him).

Unfortunately, my issue now is that Gravatar won't recognise my password (which I wrote down and know for a fact that I am entering the correct one, unless there was a typo at the time of creation). I tried multiple times and couldn't get in. I clicked on the "Lost your password" link, figuring it would be easiest to make a new password aaaaand... the email with the link to do so isn't reaching me.

Something is seriously borked. I think I may just give up on Gravatar and not bother making or asking for comments.

Hi Craig,

What a pain! I'm even feeling your pain! I've asked them to resend the email on multiple occasions, but to no avail. I really don't want to use a Gravatar now, either, but the problem is, how to you participate in the "give and take" for comments? Before you can leave a comment on the platform, it asks for a gravatar. That's how this whole thing got started for me, and I'm sure for most everyone else.

Have you found a workaround so that you can do the sitecomment part of this lesson?

Thanks,
Ashley

Hey Crag,

I found something new. Go to this link and the steps should help you get an account. Problem with Gravatar? Not Receiving the Confirmation Email. I did what this person suggested (they are on the wealthy affiliate site) and it worked! Hope it works for you. I had to use my gmail account and not my website email that forwards to my gmail. For some reason, the gravatar site doesn't like fowarding emails. Once I used my gmail account, I got the confirmation right away.

Good luck!
Ashley

Thanks Ashley.
They were actually able to activate it manually for me (after a few attempts) and they suggested I avoid the forward as well. Glad we both got it working!

Now to make some comments....

As a follow-up:

Gravatar support got back to me and said they re-sent the email, but I still have nothing. I couldn't even reply to the email because I couldn't log in. I tried to reset my password, but it said there was an error with the email address I provided, so I tried to make a new Gravatar, but it said that the email is already registered...

So, end result: I will not be using Gravatar and thus cannot make or request comments. Very, very frustrating.

Tried again with another email. Exact same thing.

Have you tried with a Gmail account? As I found some email address do not receive confirmation emails. Hotmail is one of those I have trouble with,

Hi. Sorry to be so slow in responding. Yes, it is a Gmail account. I have done things exactly as shown in the video, but for some reason the activation email can't reach me. The forwarding from my site is working (checked 3 times), but even with them sending it directly to me from their support guys, I don't get the email.

I have asked the m to delete everything associated with my email and my attempts to make an account. I will start fresh, perhaps even filming it to post for others to check out and see what's wrong.

I'm not too worried. If it doesn't work with the next attempt, I just won't bother trying to use it.

Have you added an image to your Gravatar account, you will need to that. You will also need to make sure that your image is set to a "G" rating or it will not show up on sites or here at WA. ;)

bloody hell, my pic was R rated...I knew it was something silly. Thank you Kyle!

Oh dear, that is not what you are wanting. Glad you got a remedy for your Pic.

I would try a different email address. My hotmail was a problem, so had to use gmail for confirmation.

Thanks so much for your help, Peter. :)

I will open a gmail account.

David

Glad to have been of help.

Peter

Hi. Are you checking the web email you created via WA? Not your messages tab, but the webmail for your chosen email? If you go to Rubix and then Site Email (where you were to create your email the first time) you should see a link to your webmail. This is where you check for any emails. Your password should be there as well. Let me know if this helps you cause it was a bit confusing for me as well.

Chris

Hi 11thhour,

I didn't create an email on site email. I created a forwarding account instead. My email from my website is processed through forwarding on site email, then directly to my personal email.

Hmm. OK. Not sure then. You've probably submitted a resend already. Perhaps go to the main live chat and ask for further help. Maybe someone has had the same situation.

I asked live chat, support, and discussion; no help. I just sent a email to Carson, hopefully I'll get an answer.

It's funny that I have no problem with any other email that's processed through the forwarder, just the Gravatar confirmation email.

Thank you for your help; appreciate it.

This will be cleared up soon for you.

Thank you! This is the exact type of comments I need. I'm new as well and need honest feedback. I really appreciate it!

No Lauren you will not need to create another account, to set this up. What you do need to do though is make sure you register your email address within Gravatar Word Press site.

After you do that, you will just need to verify your email address that your associating your new Gravatar Image with.

Peter
livefreefromgluten.com

Hi Tessa,

I had the same issue and I sent an email to Kyle, here is his response:

Hope this helps,
Sabba

'I would try creating another gravatar with a new email address. Gravatar (which is owned by Wordpress) is infamous for low delivery rates with their verification emails.

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to try to reverify and what I recommend is that you create a brand new account under a new email address. I have had to do this a number of times over the years.'

Tessasue90 I have the same issue, and I have tried two different email accounts. Have you get an explanation to this yet? I'm thinking that it might be the email forward that doesn't work..?

The same issue for me Mira..:(

I used another mail address and it worked ;-)

What does everyone's page look like, here 's mine (still under construction)" http://only1slyceman.yahselite.com/hello-world " and add allot sense being here. i know more than some my father being a "Computer-Specialist" Hey! There's no-one out there giving pointers, or any type of criticism? Is It to-many of us, or What? We are here to learn, build, and create now, being social is good, but doing something together is always BETTER! " We Are TEAM!!!"

Now back to why my "Gravatar" is not submitting?

I am wondering where have I been hiding ,I am in this business 6 weeks now and have yet to hear any negative comments.Yes people do call in to ask questions but all have been positive so far and I am just loving it here and plan to do very well in this business.Stay positive and success to you in this platform.

That's not the only place to leave/receive comments....you can always ASK questions, and you can search the search bar for answers. We are an entire community and Carson and Kyle will only step in for more serious issues. Your questions should be posted to the community for feedback. Hope this helps! Much success!