Title: Plugin Messes up WordPress Avatars Last modified: June 1, 2020 --- # Plugin Messes up WordPress Avatars * Resolved [CGS Web Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/) * (@cgscomputers) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/) * I use this plugin on 2 sites and one of the recent updates (not sure which one) breaks Avatars. This can be seen in 2 places… * Settings – Discussion – Scroll down to Default Avatar section and all Avatars one each radio button are the same image instead of the default WordPress ones. * Comments – All commenters who don’t have a Gravatar get assigned the profile picture of the most recently added guest author. * Both sites that I have experience the same behavior and I’ve confirmed this is the case when Molongui Authorship is the only plugin active on the site and with the WordPress default theme. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/) * (@molongui) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12927858) * Hi [@cgscomputers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/), * could you please provide a URL we can check? Also, could you let us know which theme(s) are those 2 sites using? * We will try to replicate the issue and look into it. * Thanks for reporting! * Thread Starter [CGS Web Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/) * (@cgscomputers) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12928034) * Yes, my own site cgscomputer.com has this issue. You can see it easily on this post: [https://cgscomputer.com/how-to-create-a-sticky-header-with-the-free-astra-wordpress-theme/](https://cgscomputer.com/how-to-create-a-sticky-header-with-the-free-astra-wordpress-theme/) * You’ll see many of the commenters have the same profile image – the image showing is that of the most recent guest author instead. Gravatar images still work, which is why my replies in these comments have my correct profile image. If I disable the plugin, the profile images go back to what they should be. * Also even in the discussion settings on the back end, you can see the other issue I mentioned – where all the default Avatar selections are replaced with an identical image. This also happens only when the plugin is enabled and you can view the image here [https://cgscomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Comparison.jpg](https://cgscomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Comparison.jpg) * Finally – I’m using the Astra theme on both sites, however I’ve switched them both to twentytwenty for testing and disabled every single plugin other than Molongui Authorship to test. Even with TwentyTwenty and all other plugins disabled, the issue is there – and can be resolved by disabling the plugin. * Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/) * (@molongui) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12931559) * Hi [@cgscomputers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/), * we have been able to reproduce and fix the issue affecting the ‘Discussion’ settings page. * However, we haven’t been able to reproduce the issue on comments section. Nonetheless, we have introduced some other fixes that might fix also this. Can’t tell for sure. We will release an update later today. Please update when available and let us know if you got it fixed. If you don’t, we will keep looking into it, don’t worry. * Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/) * (@molongui) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12933253) * Hi [@cgscomputers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/), * we have just released the mentioned update. Hope you can let us know whether it fixes something on your end. * Thread Starter [CGS Web Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/) * (@cgscomputers) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12933813) * The update appears to have resolved both of the issues I reported. Thank you! - This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [CGS Web Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/). Reason: Marking as resolved * Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/) * (@molongui) * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12936215) * Thanks for confirming [@cgscomputers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/)! And thanks again for reporting! Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Plugin Messes up WordPress Avatars’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/molongui-authorship/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2121645) * [Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/molongui-authorship/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/molongui-authorship/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/molongui-authorship/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/) * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-messes-up-wordpress-avatars/#post-12936215) * Status: resolved