Avatar Privacy
Enhances the privacy of your users and visitors with gravatar opt-in and local avatars.
5(25 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Avatar Privacy is a WordPress avatar plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 40K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles….
5/525 reviews
1.0K+active installs
40K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Avatars from Gravatar.com are great, but they come with certain privacy implications. You as site admin may already know this, but your visitors and users probably don’t. Avatar Privacy can help to improve the privacy situation by making some subtle changes to the way avatars are displayed on your site.
The plugin works without changing your theme files (for reasonably modern themes), and it does support multisite installations. Please note that the plugin does not provide an options page of its own, it rather adds to the existing discussion settings page.
Features
The plugin’s features summed up:
- Self-uploaded avatars for users (and custom default images), hosted on your server.
- Users and commenters explicitly opt-in before using gravatars.
- Gravatar caching to ensure the pri…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Please update to the latest WordPress version!
by nmrockswp·1 year ago·1 reply
Hello, my dear. Is the plugin still being developed? We are currently using WP 6.6.1. Your plugin works great and is very helpful when you have to comply with the GDPR. I would like to continue using it in the future. Please update to the latest WordPress version. Thank you very much!
Just works perfectly. Good bye GDPR problems.
by visitor·2 years ago
Great Plugin, thx! It does exactly what it should without getting on your nerves.
Finally something to simply take care of local avatars and privacy!
by Soprano·4 years ago·1 reply
Love it, simple but effective.
Grundsätzlich wohl gut, habe aber wohl inkompatibles Theme
by alpengreis·5 years ago·3 replies
Zuerst war ich begeistert, dann aber spielte wohl mein Theme nicht mit, da es nicht kompatibel scheint – das liegt aber wohl NICHT am PlugIn – deshalb lasse ich die 5 Punkte stehen …
- This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by alpengreis.
Great
by Jo·5 years ago
Great for a few reasons…
* really nice server-generated avatars 🙂
* can even not use Gravatar at all (and hide the checkbox) with a small snippet by the plugin author in your functions.php: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-from-media-libraty/#post-12792654
* making Gravatar GDPR-safe
* simple to use
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 3This week: 35Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.7
93.8%
Other
6.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.7.0 (2023-05-01)
- Feature: Avatar Privacy is now compatible with PHP 8.2.
- Feature: The plugin now honors the
wp_delete_filefilter when deleting files. - Change: Requires at least PHP 7.4.
- Change: Upgrades
identifiercolumn ofavatar_privacy_hashestable to 256 characters on supported MySQL/MariaDB versions (as it was in 2.4.0). - Change: The library
yzalis/identiconhas been removed as a dependency.
…and 3 more changes
Contributors
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