The Shiba Gravatar Plugin allows you to cache gravatar images locally on your server as well as use your own set of gravatar images. This release updates the plugin for WordPress 3.1. We also expanded the plugin so that in addition to custom gravatar images, it will now cache generated (e.g. monster, identicon, wavatar) and […]
Shiba Gravatar Plugin 1.3
The Shiba Gravatar Plugin allows you to cache gravatar images locally on your server as well as use your own set of gravatar images. In this release, we significantly streamlined the process for loading your own custom gravatars. This was based on Lane’s excellent feature suggestion of tying the custom gravatar system to WordPress galleries. […]
Gravatars Can Slow-Down Your WordPress Blog
Depending on time of the day and number of comments, using WordPress gravatars can cause a significant slow-down in your blog load time. Last week, I noticed a significant slow-down in one of my blogs. Pages were taking about 8-10 seconds to load, when previously they would load almost instantaneously. There are several ways to […]