Support for other avatar plugins

  • Resolved hrvy

    (@hrvy)


    11 years ago

    Is there any chance of getting this plugin to work with other plugins that replace avatars? For example “rage avatars” or “dramatars”? Other user avatar plugins can handle this but they either destroy the theme or aren’t maintained and I personally prefer your plugin.

    I found out that function get_wp_user_avatar should be modified … but you seem to replace the whole system how avatars get handled with your own implentation.

    Why not check for local avatar, if set, don’t do anything else and call standard wordpress functions for gravatar etc. Why do you check and cache gravatar?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-user-avatar/

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  • Hi, this is the basic flow of my plugin:

    1. Check for local user avatar
    2. If no local avatar, check for user Gravatar (if enabled in your settings)
    3. If no user Gravatar, show default avatar (which could either be local or on Gravatar)

    In order to determine if the Gravatar image is a custom image and not their default image, I have to do a check. Once I’ve done that, I cache the result for optimization reasons.

    I haven’t looked at the other plugins you mentioned, but I suspect they’re doing something similar.

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