Removing Gravatar.com support for WordPress and Simple Local Avatars

If you want a super-lightweight solution and don’t mind dabbling in a little code, drop this in your functions.php; function __default_local_avatar() { // this assumes default_avatar.png is in wp-content/themes/active-theme/images return get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’) . ‘/images/default_avatar.png’; } add_filter( ‘pre_option_avatar_default’, ‘__default_local_avatar’ ); Alternatively, if you want a bit more juice, with the ability to manage everything in the admin, … Read more