FV Gravatar Cache

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 62% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ roam92

   5.6y ago

   Out of the box, the WordPress commenting system is not very performant. For each comment – which could be dozens on a single page load – WordPress makes an uncached call to an external site (gravatar.com) to load the commenter’s avatar image. This happens even for the default (and most common) case that the commenter has no gravatar, and it happens repeatedly even if the same person comments multiple times on a single page. My site was getting flagged for this slow drain in profiling tools like GTmetrix and Pingdom… But I did not want to give over my commenting content to third-party companies like Disqus. About a year ago, I discovered FV Gravatar Cache, which vastly reduces this back-and-forth and automatically maintains a fast cached copy of all commenter’s gravatars. I installed the plugin and after waiting a little while for it to cache the needed gravatars (which it works through methodically in the background via cron, be patient), my site’s metrics and performance scores improved correspondingly. Thank you for this helpful plugin! WordPress really should have something like this built in.

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2. ★★★★★ grafis

   6.6y ago

   Nothing cached according to GTMetrix. The plugin settings page “cache information” shows 19 email addresses as the cached objects. The plug created six random user profile PNG files here, did not create cached versions of default Gravatar icons: /wp-content/uploads/fv-gravatar-cache Hmmm….

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3. ★★★★★ christinaleans

   7.4y ago

   I installed this plugin on 3 blogs with three different hosts, and three different themes. It has the exact same problem on all three sites: it only caches about 3-10% of the Gravatars. Posted in their support forum but they responded (politely, to their credit) that they would only look into it if I paid them…even though it’s clearly an issue with their plugin.

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4. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   9.0y ago

   Been using this plugin for several years now. It just sits in the background doing what it does, year after year. Trouble-free and reliable.

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5. ★★★★★ Gulshan Kumar

   9.2y ago

   I deactivated plugin but still contains elements in Database

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6. ★★★★★ gokuldeepak

   10.2y ago

   This plugin works well and increases speed but the problem is it only caches images for the registered users. I want to cache for every user who comments on my page. (They Don’t need to login to comment on my website instead giving their name and email id is enough)

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7. ★★★★★ semperaye

   10.4y ago

   Not sure if it’s working, the settings are showing no gravatar’s in cache.

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8. ★★★★★ xantius

   10.5y ago

   This plugin was super helpful for reducing the amount of requests my most popular web pages made (pages with over 150 comments) and helped clean up my scores on website analyzers. Thanks!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-07-10 700+ → 600+ down after 248 days in tier
2. 2025-11-04 800+ → 700+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-11-01 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-10-30 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-10-28 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-10-27 800+ → 700+ down after 311 days in tier
7. 2024-12-20 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2024-12-18 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Harrys Gravatar Cache 200+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
• Simple Local Avatars 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• One User Avatar | User Profile Picture 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• User Profile Picture 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Basic User Avatars 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C
• Simple User Avatar 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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FV Gravatar Cache: 600+ active installs, 3.9★ (11 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fv-gravatar-cache