Marcus (aka @msykes)

Marcus

Pixelite

<p>This is a very simple and lightweight plugin that anonymizes default avatars and prevents the user’s gravatar being automatically obtained from gravatar.com based on their registered email. This would be useful for sites where users require an extra layer of privacy, or if you just want to prevent potentially silly or embarrasing avatar accidents.</p>
<p>If you’re using Identicons or any other generated default avatar, the user should keep a consistent avatar unless they change their registered email.</p>
<p>You can also disable Gravatar completely and choose a default image to display.</p>
<p>This plugin is also compatible with other avatar customization plugins such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/" rel="ugc">Avatar Manager</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a> or <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-new-default-avatar/" rel="ugc">Add New Default Avatar</a>, since this plugin specifically prevents the gravatar of a specific user email being used and reverts to the default or user-defined avatar.</p>
<p><strong>Important 3.0 Update – BuddyPress users should visit the Settings > Discussion page on your dashboard and choose one of the Disable Gravatar options to restore previous behavior.</strong></p>
<p>If you have any issues or suggestions, please visit our <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-user-gravatar" rel="ugc">support forums</a>.</p>
<p>If you find this plugin useful and would like to say thanks, please leave us a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/disable-user-gravatar?filter=5" rel="ugc">5 star review</a>!</p>


Disable User Gravatar

The plugin is a must-have for each WordPress installation. One can't process the email of the user (personal information) to create a hash and sent it to a remote server without consent of the user.

Must-have

Stops WordPress from grabbing a user avatar using their registrated email from gravatar.com.

rich! @ etiviti

<p>This plugin will replace the main BuddyPress blog (for what BP is activated on) comments section with the activity stream reply system (threaded) and the (reply | favorite) links</p>
<p>This will remove the WP Comments reply section – only the site admin will have access to make traditional comment replies (you may adjust this in the theme file)</p>
<p>I consider this an experimental plugin showing how the activity stream can be more a main component across WordPress.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Activity stream enabled</li>
<li>blog and forum activity stream enabled</li>
</ul>
<h4>Important Notes</h4>
<p>Please see the FAQ – if you have an existing BP install with blog postings and comments you MUST run an additional plugin to import blog postings and comments into the activity stream (this is untested)</p>
<p>Currently no WPMU subblog support – looking for any brave souls to configure it properly. 🙂</p>
<h4>Related Links:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/04/buddypress-activity-stream-as-blog-comments/" title="BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments - Blog About Page" rel="nofollow ugc">About Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://etivite.com/2010/04/what-does-it-mean/" title="Plugin Demo Site" rel="nofollow ugc">See it in action</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Please report any bugs, ideas, concerns, etc – detailed.</p>
<h3>Extra Configuration</h3>
<h4>Allow other members to use traditional blog comment reply</h4>
<p>Edit the theme file theme/activitycomments/blogactivity-commments.php (you may want to copy this activitycomments/file to your default theme to prevent future updates from overwriting)</p>
<p>change the line
    </p>
<p>Where is_site_admin can be <code>current_user_can()</code> with the wp_cap level (lets say you want editors or authors to reply to comments in the traditional sense). Then additional blog_comments will show activity replies underneath as well. (a neat nested effect)</p>


BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments

This plugin will replace the blog comments section with the activity stream reply system

Disable User Gravatar vs BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments