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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.

WPVerwalter

Harry Milatz

Accelerates the site speed by simply and effective caching Gravatars (Globally Recognized Avatars) so that they are delivered from the own web server and do not need to be reloaded from the Gravatar server.
NEW feature: Other Avatars, e.g. from a “social login” plugin for comments are cached in version 1.3.0 and above.
NEW feature: Avatars from captured Facebook comments with a plugin like “Facebook Comments Importer” are cached in version 1.4.0 and above. The cache have to be emptied once after update.
NEW feature: Avatars from the plugin “Wapuuvatar” are cached in version 1.4.3 and above.
NEW feature: The plugin is now ready for Multisite in version 1.5.0 and above.
NEW feature: The plugin is now ready for being used with “Avatar Manager” in version 1.5.1 and above.
NEW feature: The plugin is now ready for being used with “Jetpack’s Author Widget” in version 2.0.0 and above.
<h4>Features</h4>
You can:
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<li>change the Gravatar Size</li>
<li>add a second Gravatar Size</li>
<li>change the cachetime</li>
<li>change the option how the Gravatars will be copied to your server</li>
<li>update the options depending on the server configuration</li>
<li>build the cache in the backend and see the cached images in all cached sizes</li>
<li>empty the Cache</li>
<li>get the size to use for the Gravatars from your template or set the size manually</li>
<li>You see a statistic how many files are cached and the filesizes of the files.</li>
<li>change the output file from a JPG-Image to a PNG-Image</li>
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<h4>Translations</h4>
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<li>English (US) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harry-milatz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harry Milatz</a></li>
<li>English (UK) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harry-milatz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harry Milatz</a></li>
<li>German – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harry-milatz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harry Milatz</a></li>
<li>German (formal) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harry-milatz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harry Milatz</a></li>
<li>Spanish (Spain) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpverwalter/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPVerwalter</a></li>
<li>German (Switzerland, Informal) – Pascal Krapf</li>
<li>German (Switzerland) – Pascal Krapf</li>
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Harrys Gravatar Cache now supports WordPress.org language packs. Want to translate Harrys Gravatar Cache? Visit <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/harrys-gravatar-cache/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harrys Gravatar Cache’s WordPress.org translation project</a>.

Harrys Gravatar Cache

By default, WordPress pings gravatar for an updated image. How often do people change their image? Probably, once a month. So, one doesn't need calls to gravatar every 5 minutes. Go ahead and install this plugin. Your visitors will be happy with the speed of your site!

Thanks Harry for your time on creating and maintaining this plugin.

If you care about your users, use this plugin

Accelerates the site speed by simply and effective caching Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars).

Gmail Like Gravatar Fallback vs Harrys Gravatar Cache