Active installations600Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.9 / 5 from 11 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records FV Gravatar Cache version 0.5 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.
Overview
About this plugin
There’s one problem with Gravatars. They are very slow to load. Each page with comments on them makes one call per comment to the Gravatar server.
While a single call takes only a 100ms, on a page with hundreds of comments, we are talking about major slowdowns. Page loads can take 20 seconds and more.
This plugin solves this problem by:
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caching gravatars with WordPress cron job..
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caching gravatars on comment submission
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maintaining a single copy of the default gravatar instead of downloading it again and again for all the email addresses with no gravatar associtated
Installation guide
Support and more information
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
avatar
cache
gravatar
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.7 · PHP not listed
Update activity19 May 20251y ago
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