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Kntnt Disable Avatars

WordPress mu-plugin thet disables avatars and prevents users' email address being sent to Gravatar.

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/kntnt/kntnt-disable-avatars/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

WordPress mu-plugin that disables avatars and keeps every request, and every user's email hash, from reaching Gravatar.

Avatars are off, whatever Settings → Discussion says.
get_avatar() returns nothing.
Every avatar URL is a transparent 1×1 GIF, including those in the REST API and the block editor, so no URL with an email hash is built.
The server's HTTP requests to gravatar.com and gravatar.net fail.
Resource hints to those hosts are removed.

Put kntnt-disable-avatars.php in wp-content/mu-plugins/. It needs PHP 8.0 or later.

Avatar URLs and avatar data are replaced too. 1.0.0 removed only the markup, so the REST API and the block editor still built Gravatar URLs with the user's email hash.
The server's requests and the resource hints to Gravatar are stopped.
show_avatars is filtered instead of written to the database.