Title: Gravatar Down
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Gravatar Down

 *  [Stephen Yeargin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yearginsm/)
 * (@yearginsm)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/)
 * [Gravatar](http://www.gravatar.com/) is down this afternoon, and I couldn’t find
   any particular reason why. However, this illustrates the need for plugin authors
   to make sure that their functions can fail “gracefully” if it depends on another
   Web service.
 * Just commentary.

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 *  [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
 * (@markjaquith)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235462)
 * That should just mean that the Gravatar images don’t load. If you’re worried 
   about that, use Skippy’s plugin which caches the images on your server.
 * [http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/03/24/gravatars/](http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/03/24/gravatars/)
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235481)
 * The gravatar.com domain appears not to have been renewed, and is currently showing
   as in “registrar hold” status. If it isn’t renewed within whatever the time limit
   is, it will lapse, and will be available for someone else to register…
 *  [elyonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elyonline/)
 * (@elyonline)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235667)
 * Anyone know how much longer Gravatr is going to be down or is it gone for good?
 * Thanks
 *  [xerocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xerocool/)
 * (@xerocool)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235668)
 * [http://xerocool.innereyes.com/general/gravatarcom_down.php](http://xerocool.innereyes.com/general/gravatarcom_down.php)
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235669)
 * Expired domain.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235673)
 * Here’s a temporary fix for the gravatar issue:
 * [http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/07/18/gravatar-down-dns-solution/](http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/07/18/gravatar-down-dns-solution/)
 *  [joedolan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joedolan/)
 * (@joedolan)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravatar-down/#post-235813)
 * I was looking for how everyone was getting the Avatars for their readers. When
   I finally found that they were using Gravatar, they were already down. Since 
   they have been not allowing any updates or new users, I decided to create one
   that others could use! It is called Blogatar, found at [http://www.blogatar.com](http://www.blogatar.com).
 * –Joe

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