Harrys Gravatar Cache
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.
Features
You can:
- change the Gravatar Size
- add a second Gravatar Size
- change the cachetime
- change the option how the Gravatars will be copied to your server
- update the options depending on the server configuration
- build the cache in the backend and see the cached images in all cached sizes
- empty the Cache
- get the size to use for the Gravatars from your template or set the size manually
- You see a statistic how many files are cached and the filesizes of the files.
- change the output file from a JPG-Image to a PNG-Image
Translations
- English (US) – Harry Milatz
- English (UK) – Harry Milatz
- German – Harry Milatz
- German (formal) – Harry Milatz
- Spanish (Spain) – WPVerwalter
- German (Switzerland, Informal) – Pascal Krapf
- German (Switzerland) – Pascal Krapf
Harrys Gravatar Cache now supports WordPress.org language packs. Want to translate Harrys Gravatar Cache? Visit Harrys Gravatar Cache’s WordPress.org translation project.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
- Give a name to your project
- Download the Installer Package
- Install & activate the plugin locally
- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.



