Title: Mirror Gravatar
Author: jwz
Published: <strong>2022-يىلى 9-ئىيۇن</strong>
Last modified: 2025-يىلى 31-ئىيۇل

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قىستۇرما ئىزدە

![](https://ps.w.org/mirror-gravatar/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2740150)

# Mirror Gravatar

 يازغۇچى [jwz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

[چۈشۈر](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mirror-gravatar.1.5.zip)

 * [تەپسىلاتلار](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/#description)
 * [باھالاشلار](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/#reviews)
 *  [ئورنىتىش](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/#installation)
 * [ئىجادىيەت](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/#developers)

 [قوللاش](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/)

## چۈشەندۈرۈش

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:

 * 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.
 * You will be serving more (small) images.
 * If a commenter’s URL looks like a link to a Mastodon / ActivityPub profile, their
   Mastodon account’s avatar will be displayed.
 * When commenting, a live preview of the avatar tracks the contents of the «Email»
   field.
 * [gravatar.com](https://www.gravatar.com/) and [libravatar.org](https://www.libravatar.org/)
   no longer have a web-bug on your blog that is loaded by each viewer. Instead 
   of being loaded at every page view, the avatar is loaded just once, on the server-
   side, at the time each new comment is posted.
 * If someone changes or deletes their avatar, your site continues displaying the
   image that was their avatar at the time that they last posted.
 * Likewise, the user’s Gravatar or Mastodon profile is saved along with their comment,
   viewable by admins even if they later change or delete it.

### Security and Privacy

 * [Libravatar](https://www.libravatar.org/) is open source. Gravatar is [owned by WordPress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar),
   and their [privacy policy](https://automattic.com/privacy/) says that they don’t
   monetize that info. But hey, corporate policies change, subpoenas exist, and 
   domain names get sold.
 * Should you trust Gravatar with user data? Well, in 2024, Gravatar announced that
   they are [pivoting to blockchain](https://jwz.org/b/ykXF), whatever that means,
   so that’s fairly disqualifying. See also [WordPress «growth hacking»](https://jwz.org/b/ykPk)
   and [WordPress sells users‹ data to train AI tools](https://jwz.org/b/ykNg).
 * There used to be a potential issue due to [Gravatars using MD5 hashes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar#Security_concerns_and_data_breaches),
   but these days they use SHA256, so I assume that’s no longer a problem.

## ئېكران كەسمىسى

 * [[
 * A copy of the user’s gravatar.com profile is saved with the comment.
 * [[
 * A live preview of the avatar when commenting.

## ئورنىتىش

 1. Upload the `mirror-gravatar` directory to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the «Plugins» menu in WordPress.
 3. Make sure the directory `/wp-content/plugins/mirror-gravatar/` is writable by your
    web server.

## باھالاشلار

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3198bd74f1c5ffc041d0c8086ce3c742df7e942e72c7bc05416ae561726fc735?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin to make WordPress a bit better](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-to-make-wordpress-a-bit-better/)󠁿

 [Fernando Briano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fernandobt/) 2024-يىلى 30-ئۆكتەبىر

The plugin does just what it says and it’s a great way to improve WordPress just
a little bit.

 [ 1 باھالاشنىڭ ھەممىنى ئوقۇش ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/)

## تۆھپىكار ۋە ئىجادكار

«Mirror Gravatar» كودى ئوچۇق يۇمشاق دېتال. تۆۋەندىكى كىشىلەر بۇ قىستۇرمىغا تۆھپە
قوشقان.

تۆھپىكار

 *   [ jwz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

[«Mirror Gravatar» نى تىلىڭىزغا تەرجىمە قىلىڭ](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mirror-gravatar)

### ئىجادىيەتكە قىزىقامسىز؟

[كودقا كۆز يۈگۈرتۈپ](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mirror-gravatar/)،
[SVN خەزىنە](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mirror-gravatar/) تەكشۈرۈپ ياكى [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mirror-gravatar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss)
ئارقىلىق [ئىجادىيەت خاتىرىسى](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mirror-gravatar/)
گە مۇشتەرى بولغىلى بولىدۇ.

## ئۆزگىرىش خاتىرىسى

#### 1.0

 * Created

#### 1.1

 * Also mirrors Mastodon avatar images, if the commenter’s URL is of the form «https://
   example.com/@username»

#### 1.2

 * Minor Mastodon tweaks.

#### 1.3

 * Prefer SHA256 to MD5, since Gravatar accepts that now.
 * Added support for Libravatar.

#### 1.4

 * Oops, I forgot to include the CSS file in the distribution.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  ئاخىرقى يېڭىلانغان ۋاقىت **10 ئاي بۇرۇن**
 *  ئاكتىپ ئورنىتىش سانى **20+**
 *  WordPress نەشرى ** 2.7 ياكى يۇقىرى **
 *  **6.8.5** دا سىنالغان
 *  تىل
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/)
 * بەلگە
 * [comments](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[gravatar](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravatar/)
 *  [ئالىي كۆرۈنۈش](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/mirror-gravatar/advanced/)

## دەرىجە

 5/5 يۇلتۇز

 *  [  1 5-يۇلتۇز باھالاش     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-يۇلتۇز باھالاش     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-يۇلتۇز باھالاش     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-يۇلتۇز باھالاش     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-يۇلتۇز باھالاش     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/#new-post)

[بارلىق ئىنكاسنى كۆرسەت](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/reviews/)

## تۆھپىكار

 *   [ jwz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

## قوللاش

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 [قوللاش مۇنبىرىنى كۆرسەت](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mirror-gravatar/)