Beau Lebens

Allows you to use a shortcode in your Posts and Pages to embed a Gravatar quickly and easily just using an email address.
<h3>Options</h3>
In addition to email=””, you can also include the following attributes within the shortcode for extra formatting etc:
See http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/wp-plugin-gravatar-shortcode/ for more examples.
<ul>
<li>email: the email address to display the Gravatar for</li>
<li>size: a number (e.g. 60) representing the pixel size of the Gravatar to display (they are square)</li>
<li>rating: a letter restricting the maxiumum rating of Gravatar to display (g, pg, r, x)</li>
<li>default: the default image to use if there isn’t one associated with this email address (otherwise it will use the Gravatar.com default)</li>
<li>alt: the “alt” attribute to apply to the img tag produced</li>
<li>title: title attribute for the img tag</li>
<li>align: align attribute for the img, should be left, right, absmiddle, baseline etc</li>
<li>style: custom style attribute (e.g. ‘margin: 5px; border: solid 1px #000;’)</li>
<li>class: add a class to the img tag</li>
<li>id: add an id to the img tag for specific styling/DOM manipulation.</li>
<li>border: adjust the border attribute for the img</li>
</ul>

Gravatar Shortcode

Allows you to use a shortcode in your Posts and Pages to embed a Gravatar quickly and easily just using an email address.

Bart Kuijper

When displaying a post or comment with avatars enabled, WordPress will always check for the existence of a Gravatar. (Note: even the default avatars ‘mystery person’ and ‘blank’ are in fact Gravatars served from gravatar.com.) WordPress does this by sending an MD5 hash of every displayed post or comment author’s email address to gravatar.com. Even with many plugins that introduce locally stored default or user avatars, this check still happens. On top of that, some themes or plugins force (Gr)avatars to load even if the display of avatars is disabled completely in WordPress’ settings. If for whatever reason you do not wish for Gravatar to receive these requests (which some people have voiced GDPR concerns about), this plugin is for you.
The way it works is every time WordPress attempts to display an avatar, this plugin first checks if the image is about to be retrieved from gravatar.com. If it is, the URL is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image (included with this plugin). If the avatar has any other source, this plugin doesn’t interfere.
Gravatars are also removed from the Discussion page in Settings and replaced with the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. Again, any non-Gravatar images are left alone.
Upon activation of this plugin, if a Gravatar is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.
Upon deactivation of this plugin, if the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the Gravatar logo. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.

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