Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles, and Privacy vs Optimum Gravatar Cache

Elevate your WordPress site with Gravatar Enhanced – the plugin that simplifies digital identity and improves user engagement. Seven Ways Gravatar Enhanced Improves WordPress: ✓ Privacy Protection – Automatic referrer blocking and optional IP address proxy ✓ Accessibility Improvements – Alt-text for all avatars to support screen readers ✓ One-Click Profile Updates – Edit Gravatar directly from the WordPress dashboard ✓ Versatile Profile Block & Patterns – Showcase authors and team members anywhere ✓ Comment Engagement Tools – Remind users to create avatars for better discussions ✓ Comment Form Integration – Show Gravatar directly in the comment form ✓ WooCommerce Integration – Personalized account pages for customers Privacy Protection Just by enabling the plugin, the plugin ensures that no referrer information is sent to Gravatar. The opt-in proxy service also keeps IP addresses from being exposed or logged. Accessibility Improvements All avatars now include alt-text, enhancing the experience for users with screen readers. Alt-text can be edited in the Gravatar Profile editor. One-Click Profile Updates Visit Users > Your Profile to edit your Gravatar profile directly from WordPress. Preview your hovercard and make updates with ease. Gravatar Profile Block & Patterns Enhance your website with our custom Gravatar profile block and patterns. Seamlessly integrate Gravatar profiles into posts, pages, or biographies to elegantly showcase team members, guest contributors, speakers, event attendees, authors, and more. Comment Engagement Tools Automatically remind commenters without avatars to create a Gravatar, increasing visual engagement on your blog. Comment Form Integration When the plugin is enabled we will show a Gravatar profile directly in the comment form, and allow the profile to be updated, so users can feel confident their details are correct, and the site shows richer comments. WooCommerce Integration Enhance your WooCommerce store by displaying user Gravatar avatars on the My Account page. Customers can view and update their avatars directly from their account dashboard, improving personalization and user engagement. Seamless Integration: Automatically works if WooCommerce is installed and activated. Direct Avatar Management: Users can change their Gravatar avatars without leaving your site. Improved Personalization: Adds a personal touch to the shopping experience, fostering customer loyalty. Automatic Installation Click ‘Add New Plugin’ from your WordPress plugins page and search for ‘Gravatar Enhanced’ Press the ‘Install Now’ button Activate the plugin Go to the “Discussion” Settings page to enable the new features. Manual Installation Download the plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravatar-enhanced/ Upload and extract the plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Go to the “Discussion” Settings page to enable the new features.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The plugin intends the following: Work with the gravatars locally, cache; 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; Optimize all avatars by reducing their size and transfer time again. Please if you find any bugs of any kind please contact me so that I can solve it as soon as possible. Languages English en_GB (@willstockstech) Portuguese pt_PT (@jomisica) Help translate this plugin into your language Dependencies This plugin depends on the following PHP modules: php-gd or php-imagick (So that it can resize the avatars) php-curl (So that it can communicate with the gravatar using the same connection to update several avatars) The plugin also depends on WordPress CRON to be able to solve the heaviest tasks in the background.