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Pradeep Sonawane

Gmail Like Gravatar Fallback plugin converts default WordPress Gravatar into Gmail App like Gravatar which shows the initial letter of the user in a random background color.
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<li>You can also add your styling to your stylesheet to customize the default gravatar after activating the plugin. Once the plugin is installed, it detects the user gravatars which are not set and are default, then they will be converted to SQUARE ICONS with First Letter of User’s Name.</li>
<li>This plugin also keeps the default gravatar settings, so once plugin is deactivated, old setting will be applied again.</li>
<li>This will show Gmail APP like gravatars in Comments list and Users / Members list.</li>
<li>This plugin has no settings, it just uses converts the default Gravatars using jQuery.</li>
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Requirements: 
1. In the HTML markup, the Author Name should be sibling of Author Gravatar. 
2. The Author name should have “fn” class. <a href="http://impradeep.in/gmail-like-gravatar-fallback-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>To know more click here…
Please note: Our default WordPress comments section already shows markup in the link above. 
So if want to use these Gmail like Gravatar Fallback in some other custom templates, then you can reform the structure to look like the above.

Gmail Like Gravatar Fallback

Gmail Like Gravatar Fallback plugin converts default Gravatar into Gmail App like Gravatar.

Dougal Campbell

This plugin allows you to automatically add Gravatars for commenters to your 
theme, if your theme does not already support them.
According to the Gravatar.com website, Gravatars are Globally Recognized 
Avatars, or an “avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog 
appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.” 
You register with the Gravatar server, and upload an image which you will 
use as your avatar. The gravatar image is keyed to your email address, so 
that it is unique to you.
This plugin will display gravatars for the people who comment on your posts. 
You do not need to modify any of your template files — just activate the 
plugin, and it will add gravatars to your comments template automatically.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Based on a code snippet from Matt Mullenweg: 
 http://photomatt.net/2007/10/20/gravatar-enabled/ 
 http://pastebin.ca/743979
Props to David Potter for pointing out that Gravatar normalizes email 
addresses to lowercase before hashing with MD5: 
 http://dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/2007/10/22/integrating-gravatar-support/

Easy Gravatars

nice

Add Gravatars to your comments without modifying any template files. Just activate, and you're done!

Gmail Like Gravatar Fallback vs Easy Gravatars