An alternative way to organize my avatars would be to use Gravatar. Gravatar allows you to display your avatar through a simple URL.

The Normal Avatar Code

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<div id="twitter_photo"><img src="%3C?php%20echo%20bloginfo%28%27template_directory%27%29;%20?%3E/images/icon-twitter.jpg" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></div>

The Gravatar Avatar Code

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<div id="twitter_photo"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=%3C?php%20echo%20md5%28" yourgravatar@email.com="" );="" ?="" />" width="73" height="73" alt="" /&gt;</div>

You should replace “your...@email.com” with the email address of your Gravatar avatar email address. With Gravatar, I no longer need to upload and manually change the code whenever I update my avatar. Now, I only need to edit it from Gravatar and all my sites will display the updated avatar.