I noticed the other day that gravatars were not showing up anywhere, my site or others. A quick ping of gravatar.com returned a "request timed out." Anybody know what happened to them?
Gravatar.com down? (2 posts)
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gregorsmith
Posted 8 years ago #
If you change the linee in the plugin from:
$out = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5($comment->comment_author_email);
to
$out = "http://wide.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5($comment->comment_author_email);
it then pulls the gravatar from a distributed cache proxy which should continue to work, even when gravatar.com goes down (so they say) plus as your using a cache of gravatars, it's not putting as much a strain on the gravatar servers
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