Gabriele Iacovone

This simple and lightweight plugin removes Gravatars and allow users to upload a custom avatar image from WordPress media library.
Features: 
1. Upload an image from media library as your profile picture. 
2. Set a default avatar for guest users in Setting > Discussion.
Advantages: 
* Avoid blog post comments with empty users profiles pictures. 
* Improve performances (only 2 images are loaded).

Gab – Custom User Avatar


his plugin do it's job without compromises, easy and fast settings.


Simple and lightweight!

Great plugin

Allow users to add or remove their avatar using images from WordPress media library and set a default avatar for guests.

FolioVision

There’s one problem with Gravatars. They are very slow to load. Each page with comments on them makes one call per comment to the Gravatar server. While a single call takes only a 100ms, on a page with hundreds of comments, we are talking about major slowdowns. Page loads can take 20 seconds and more.
This plugin solves this problem by:
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caching gravatars with WordPress cron job..
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caching gravatars on comment submission
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maintaining a single copy of the default gravatar instead of downloading it again and again for all the email addresses with no gravatar associtated
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<a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-gravatar-cache/installation" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation guide</a>
<a href="http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-gravatar-cache" rel="nofollow ugc">Support and more information</a>

FV Gravatar Cache

I deactivated plugin but still contains elements in Database

Database Junk

Speeds up your website by making sure the gravatars are stored on your website and not loading from the gravatar server.

Gab – Custom User Avatar vs FV Gravatar Cache