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Ian Butler
Ian Butler

Reputation: 393

Custom default gravatar in WordPress

I have done this so many times but for some reason it doesn't work today!

This is the function used for adding a default gravatar:

//***Custom Gravatar**/
add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'custom_gravatar' );  
function custom_gravatar ($avatar_defaults) {
     $myavatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/gravatar.png';
     print_r($myavatar);
     $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "Custom Gravatar";
     return $avatar_defaults;
}

In Settings > Discussion, the title "Custom Gravatar" shows, but no image. No image on the front-end either.

print_r($myavatar); shows the correct URL.

The URL shows the correct image.

The image src on the front-end outputs like this:

http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0d2ef201aafaf4849d2fd2bccaba6ea4?s=60&d=http%3A%2F%2Fstaging.cashmoneylife.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fgenesis-sample-master%2Fimages%2Fgravatar.png&r=g

Am I overlooking something really simple?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (1)

Daniel C
Daniel C

Reputation: 2155

Found this post which states (quoting the Gravatar documents):

When you include a default image, Gravatar will automatically serve up that image if there is no image associated with the requested email hash. There are a few conditions which must be met for default image URL:

  • MUST be publicly available (e.g. cannot be on an intranet, on a local development machine, behind HTTP Auth or some other firewall etc). Default images are passed through a security scan to avoid malicious content.
  • MUST be accessible via HTTP or HTTPS on the standard ports, 80 and 443, respectively.
  • MUST have a recognizable image extension (jpg, jpeg, gif, png)
  • MUST NOT include a querystring (if it does, it will be ignored)

Any chance you are developing locally???

Upvotes: 1

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