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Custom Profile Picture Upload: Users can upload their own avatars directly from the frontend or the “Edit Profile” screen, allowing for a personalized profile picture experience. 
Automatic Thumbnail Generation: When users upload a new avatar, the plugin automatically generates resized images (thumbnails) for optimal display in different contexts. 
Real-Time Avatar Update: The plugin provides a smooth and intuitive user experience by allowing users to preview their avatar changes instantly, without having to refresh the page. 
Simple File Handling: Supports JPEG, PNG, and GIF formats, ensuring compatibility with common image types. 
Fully Integrated with WordPress User Profiles: The custom avatar replaces the default Gravatar for each user, while still keeping Gravatar as a fallback if no custom avatar is uploaded. 
Clean and Lightweight: Kilho’s Simple Avatar focuses on simplicity and efficiency, ensuring minimal impact on your site’s performance. 
This plugin is perfect for websites looking to provide users with more control over their profile customization, while keeping the interface simple and responsive.

Kilho's Simple Avatar

Add a simple avatar upload field to user profiles for custom profile pictures, with automatic resizing and real-time updates.

Harry Milatz

WPVerwalter

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:
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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).

Kilho's Simple Avatar vs Harrys Gravatar Cache