Rating: 5 stars
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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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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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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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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I deactivated plugin but still contains elements in Database
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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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Not sure if it’s working, the settings are showing no gravatar’s in cache.
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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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This is just what I needed, simple to use, fire and forget!
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A very simple plugin but very effective; gravatar can be really slow and this plugin helps a lot.
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Seems to work well, caches Gravatar images so your site is dependent on one less external site in order to load.
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