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BP Local Avatars is a BuddyPress plugin.
Do you have members or groups on your BuddyPress site who do not have an Avatar? 
And you do not want to show the generic default avatar? 
Or maybe you do not want each page view to include a lot of calls to gravatar.com to load avatars?
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<li>This plugin will create a Gravatar Identicon avatar, thumb and full versions, for any user who does not already have an Avatar, and save it locally.</li>
<li>Supports user creation, user registration, user login, and Bulk Generation for user and groups.</li>
<li>Uses the existing BuddyPress avatar directory structure.</li>
<li>Conforms to the defined sizes for BuddyPress thumb and full avatars.</li>
<li>Users can still upload an avatar via their profile.</li>
<li>Groups can still upload an avatar via Group > Manage > Photo.</li>
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Usage:
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Provides an option in wp-admin under: 
Settings -> Discussion > Default Avatar > BuddyPress Identicon (Generated and Stored Locally).
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Select and Save. Otherwise this plugin will not do anything.
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After saving, you will see a link to ‘Bulk Generate’ avatars for all users and groups who do not have a local avatar. If a user already has their own Gravatar, it will save it locally.
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For more BuddyPress plugins, please visit <a href="https://www.philopress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhiloPress</a>

BP Local Avatars

A BuddyPress plugin that creates Gravatar avatars for any user or group without one, and stores them locally.

Milan Dinić

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This plugin shows a message with link to signup page of Gravatar (pre-filled with e-mail address) to commenters and/or users who don’t have gravatar.
Message can be shown to:
<ul>
<li>unregistered commenters when they leave text input field for e-mail address</li>
<li>registered commenters to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>unregistered commenters after they post a comment in a dialog, to whom their entered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered commenters after they post a comment in a dialog, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users in administration notices, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users in admin bar, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>registered users on their profile page, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked</li>
<li>users who fill registration form when they leave text input field for e-mail address</li>
</ul>
Options are fully customizable. See FAQ for more information.
This plugin is lightweight, it adds only one field in database which is deleted if you uninstall plugin using WordPress’ built-in feature for deletion of plugins. Also it will only load jQuery file to head of your page if it wasn’t already loaded by theme or other plugin(s). Checks for gravatar are done via simple AJAX. 
If you want to speed up your web site and save on bandwidth and server resources, it is recommended that you also install plugin <a href="http://jasonpenney.net/wordpress-plugins/use-google-libraries/" rel="nofollow ugc">Use Google Libraries</a> which will load jQuery file from <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google AJAX Libraries</a>.
In order to plugin works, it needs to be on server with PHP 5 and on WordPress 2.8 or above.
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Gravatar Signup Encouragement

Shows a message with link to Gravatar's signup page to commenters and/or users without gravatar.

BP Local Avatars vs Gravatar Signup Encouragement