BuddyPress Improved: disable Gravatar

by baptx · Privacy & Consent

Simple and lightweight plugin to disable Gravatar fallback when profile picture is missing on BuddyPress, for better privacy without third-party reque …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 66 average across 471 Privacy & Consent plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

1.6K

Total downloads

since 2018

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-41%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 10/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2999 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-41% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 136

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

BuddyPress Improved: · #39406 Avatar Privacy · #6564 Wbcom Designs · #10361 Simple BuddyPress Pr · #12065

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate

10–20 ≈17

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 8.2y ago
Added: 2018-05-01 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.9.29
Requires PHP: 5.3

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

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BuddyPress Improved: disable Gravatar: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bp-improved-disable-gravatar