José Miguel

Will Stocks

<p>Optimum Gravatar Cache allows you to create a local cache with optimized copies of gravatars. The optimization is accomplished by resizing the avatars to the sizes used on your site, in addition to optimizing the images internally. Optimizations are performed to minimize the size of each avatar served by the plugin.</p>
<p>The plugin uses WordPress CRON to perform heavier tasks. Avatars are resized in the background. Avatars are optimized internally in the background. Except in certain cases where it is necessary to resize the avatars in the page request.</p>
<p>The plugin handles all your site’s gravatar as long as the wordpress get_avatar() function or buddypress bp_member_avatar() function is used. Works with plugins, themes, etc.</p>
<p>The plugin allows you to customize the avatar by default. This avatar is served whenever the user / visitor does not have a custom gravatar. This greatly reduces the number of requests made by your page, improving the user experience. Besides allowing to frame the avatar by default with the theme of your site.</p>
<p>The plugin, after being configured and activated, starts by serving gravatar for all. And it begins to create the cache dynamically in the background with the sizes being collected by the requests, as well as those configured on the plug-in page. When the avatar already exists in the cache, the plugin serves the avatar in cache. The plugin periodically checks to see if the user updated their gravatar on gravatar.com if yes is updated locally. This way, keeping an updated cache.</p>
<p><strong>The plugin intends the following:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Work with the gravatars locally, cache;</li>
<li>Reduce the number of requests per page, thus reducing the total time required to load all files. This is achieved because most users do not have a custom gravatar, and for those, only one file needs to be downloaded;</li>
<li>Optimize all avatars by reducing their size and transfer time again.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please if you find any bugs of any kind please contact me so that I can solve it as soon as possible.</p>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>English en_GB (@willstockstech)</li>
<li>Portuguese pt_PT (@jomisica)</li>
</ul>
<p>Help translate this plugin into your language</p>
<h3>Dependencies</h3>
<p>This plugin depends on the following PHP modules:</p>
<ul>
<li>php-gd or php-imagick (So that it can resize the avatars)</li>
<li>php-curl (So that it can communicate with the gravatar using the same connection to update several avatars)</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin also depends on WordPress CRON to be able to solve the heaviest tasks in the background.</p>


Optimum Gravatar Cache

It stores optimized copies of gravatars locally, reducing the total number of requests. This will speed up site loading and consequently improve the u …

Cătălin Dogaru

<p>Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.</p>
<p>Enhance your WordPress website by letting your users choose between using Gravatar or a self-hosted avatar image right from their profile screen. Improved workflow, on-demand image generation and custom user permissions under a native interface. Say hello to the Avatar Manager plugin.</p>
<h4>Help Preserve this Project</h4>
<p>Want to support this project for continued development and freely available for everyone? Here’s how you can help preserve Avatar Manager:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager#contributing" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Get involved.</strong></a> Contribute a patch or help resolving an existing issue or confirmed feature request, or submit a translation.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16020" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Suggest adding to core.</strong></a> Whether you find Avatar Manager a good fit for WordPress core your feedback can help make a difference.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/avatar-manager#postform" rel="ugc"><strong>Add your own review.</strong></a> Let others know how was your experience using Avatar Manager.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SMKJZHX7G3VQS" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Make a donation.</strong></a> Keep me motivated with a candy bar or a theater ticket. Is that simple.</li>
</ul>
<p>Avatar Manager is a user-driven project, and all developments and enhancements depend on users like <em>you</em>! Become a contributor or make a donation, and get your name featured in front of a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/stats/" rel="ugc">growing audience</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for choosing to contribute to Avatar Manager!</em></p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>Have a bug or a feature request? Please <a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">open a new issue</a>. Before opening any issue, please search for existing issues and read the <a href="https://github.com/necolas/issue-guidelines" rel="nofollow ugc">Issue Guidelines</a>, written by <a href="https://github.com/necolas/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Gallagher</a>. Please submit all pull requests against development branches.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Avatar Manager on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>How It’s Made</h4>
<p>Find out how Avatar Manager it’s made on <a href="http://code.tutsplus.com/series/how-to-create-a-wordpress-avatar-management-plugin-from-scratch--wp-33866" rel="nofollow ugc">Tuts+ Code</a>.</p>
<h4>Authors</h4>
<p><strong>Cătălin Dogaru</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>https://profiles.wordpress.org/cdog</li>
<li>https://github.com/cdog</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributors</h4>
<p>Avatar Manager is brought to you by these fine folks.</p>
<p><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dikiy_forester" rel="nofollow ugc">Artem Frolov</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brikou" rel="nofollow ugc">Brice Capobianco</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ideos" rel="nofollow ugc">Guy Steyaert</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/artstorm" rel="nofollow ugc">Johan Steen</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wiiz83" rel="nofollow ugc">Lucas Uzan</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mateusneves" rel="nofollow ugc">Mateus Neves</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/modima65" rel="nofollow ugc">Maura Montero D.</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pietergoosen" rel="nofollow ugc">Pieter Goosen</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/schm168" rel="nofollow ugc">Samantha Muthiah</a>,<br />
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/snowboardmommy" rel="nofollow ugc">Snowboard Mommy</a></p>
<h4>Copyright and License</h4>
<p>Copyright © 2021 Cătălin Dogaru</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p>


Avatar Manager


First off great that this plugin works, doesn’t cause download of huge images to display as small avatars and seems to work well 🙂



I like that it supports gravatar as a default.



I'm not sure it is still supported but if it is, it needs to have at least meta data updated so everything doesn't point to moved pages and needs to be marked as tested in release 6.4.2 or so...


Works in WP 6.4.2, Not sure is Still Supported

Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.

Optimum Gravatar Cache vs Avatar Manager