I will show you How to Change the Default Gravatar in WordPress, why? Because one of my favourite WordPress Comment enhancement is added Gravatar, after Gravatar become Automattic Family, Gravatar become more and more better. Especially integrated with many many Automattic Family, and of course WordPresss too.

The Right Way to Change The Default Gravatar in WordPress

Why changed the default (Misery Man) Gravatar? For me, it’s will make our website more unique and of course we can added extra banner or something in our Default Gravatar. Let’s get started, write down tiny code below in your theme functions.php

Change The Default Gravatar Code

add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'customgravatar' );

function customgravatar ($avatar_defaults) {
    $myavatar = get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/custom-gravatar.jpg';
    $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "WP Tricks & Tips";
    return $avatar_defaults;
}

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