Mirror Gravatar
Locally mirror commenters' Gravatar or Mastodon profile images.
5(1 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 8 months agoAs of April 2026, Mirror Gravatar is a WordPress comments plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
5/51 reviews
20active installs
1.8K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
Locally mirrors commenters’ Gravatar, Libravatar and Mastodon avatars and serves them from your site, rather than loading them from a third-party web site upon each page load.
This has several effects:
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If most of the comments on a post have no avatar, those turn into one load of a shared image, instead of one for each comment, that happens to return the same “mystery” image.
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You will be serving more (small) images.
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If a commenter’s URL looks like a link to a Mastodon / ActivityPub profile, their Mastodon account’s avatar will be displayed.
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When commenting, a live preview of the avatar tracks the contents of the “Email” field.
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gravatar.com and libravatar.org no longer have a web-bug on your blog that is loaded by each viewer. Instead of…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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1.0
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