Guide: Ponify Your Profile!

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Aquarior

Published: May 23, 2012

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Greetings, my pretty Ponies!

Today, I write about how you can ponify your profile

When I saw Derpy hovering on leKelBel's profile page, I thought I had overdosed on Ponies

But she linked me to StevenRoy's explanation, who points to Fli-c's Journal Entry with detailed instructions. Here is the short version: Click on some widget on your profile page where you can add a description and type in one or more of the following codes:

Thumbnails

Derpy in bottom left corner:

Derpy in bottom middle:
<div id="barkbox" class="oh-long gm-icon-drag"><div class="tabselect-wrapper journal-green"><img src="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/332/d/d/derpy_hovering_test_by_c_quel-d4hmz2x.gif" class="gr2 popup2-clear"></div></div>

Derpy in bottom right corner:
<div id="barkbox" class="oh-long journal-green"><img class="gr2 popup2-clear" src="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/332/d/d/derpy_hovering_test_by_c_quel-d4hmz2x.gif"></div>

plz-icons

Derpy in bottom left corner:

<div id="barkbox"><div class="f">:iconderpyshrugplz:</div></div>

Derpy in bottom middle:
<div class="oh-long gm-icon-drag" id="barkbox"><div class="tabselect-wrapper journal-green"><div class="gr2 popup2-clear cc-userdetails">:iconderpyshrugplz:</div></div></div>

Derpy in bottom right corner:
<div id="barkbox" class="oh-long journal-green"><div class="gr2 popup2-clear">:iconderpyshrugplz:</div></div>

You can use any image or icon, but those with transparent background works best. To get the image address of thumbnails, simply rightclick on it when you search for images and select "Copy image URL". Then exchange the address in the code. For example, I use

<div id="barkbox"><img class="f" src="http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/150/i/2011/135/8/7/octavia_by_moongazeponies-d3gdi7w.png"></div>

to put a thumbnail of Octavia into the bottom left corner

As for plz-icons, click here to read more about "alt text". Distoorted names a solution in the comments that I have been using ever since

If you have any questions, ask me in the comments

Your faithful Brony, Ray!

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Update

UPDATE 2012-05-29: Holy Guacamole! This Journal Entry became pretty popular over the last few days

These companions were even given the name "Page Buddies", which I find pretty awesome

However, there are two issues:

First, there is a difference between Premium Members and Non-Premium Members when using these codes. I thought it was that only Premiums can use thumbnails while Non-Premiums are limited to plz-accounts, but I have been told that this has changed. Instead, according to StevenRoy, the class="..." part only works for Premium Users. That means you cannot get Derpy into the middle or the right corner as a Non-Premium. Well, that is not too bad, especially since it prevents people from overloading their profile by putting Ponies in every possible corner

Second, and this is much more important, it does not seem to work anymore

Octavia and Fluttershy now show up in the specific widgets, not in the corners of my Profile Page. I am not sure why they changed it, but perhaps there were ways to exploit this for malicious purposes or legal aspects regarding the code came into play. If anyone finds an official statement regarding that, please leave a comment.