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GravatarLocalCache

Description

With this plugin you can cache gravatar images on your server (and they will be delivered with the cache settings of your webserver).

Please report bugs and/or feature-request to our ticket-system: Bugtracker/Wiki.
For Support, please use the forum.
Latest development news: Twitter.

ToDo

  • [NEW] cronjob to refresh cached images

Installation

  1. Upload the ‘GravatarLocalCache’ folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in the WordPress admin
  3. Adjust the caching time on the options page (default: 3 days)

FAQ

The loading time of my website is very high?

This can happen, if there are many gravatar images that need to be updated…
Shoudn’t be a problem since version 0.9.2.

Gravatars aren’t cached, whats the problem?

GravatarLocalCache depends on the use of get_avatar() (a WordPress function).
If your plugin/theme doesn’t use this function, GLC can’t fetch the gravatar requests. Ask the author of the plugin/theme to use “get_avatar()”.

How can i change the cache/proxy-settings of the images?

If you use apache as your webserver, you can set the options throught .htacces as described here (german) , here or here.
For other webservers you have to check the manual.

For any further questions, please use the support forum.

Reviews

February 7, 2017
1. not working in widget 2. destroy any avatars icons here: /wp-admin/options-discussion.php and tring to caching it, but 404. 1. working in comments
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Contributors & Developers

“GravatarLocalCache” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.1.2

  • [FIX] save options

1.1.1

  • [FIX] updated to latest WordPress-API-calls (WP >=3.3.0 required)

1.1.0

  • [NEW] “auto”-delete files older than cache time/cachecleanup

1.0.2

  • [FIX] open_basedir-restriction error (thx BenBE)

1.0.1

  • [FIX] compatibility release for wp3.0

1.0.0

  • [NEW] some more stats
  • [NEW] dashboard widget with some stats
  • [NEW] german translation
  • [FIX] cache directory moved to wp-content/glc_cache
  • more information

0.9.5 (1.0.0 RC4)

0.9.4 (1.0.0 RC3)

  • [FIX] default gravatar (mystery only)

0.9.3 (1.0.0 RC2)

  • [NEW] wordpress setting for the default gravatar is now used
  • [FIX] if there is a problem with the cache directory, some debug information will be displayed
  • [FIX] possible duplicate constant

0.9.2 (1.0.0 RC1)

  • [NEW] number of gravatars to be fetched is now limited (max 3 per page)
  • more information

0.9.1

  • [FIX] path/url

0.9.0

  • [NEW] initial release