If an author does not have a Gravatar, Molongui Authorship can automatically display a fallback avatar instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is expected behavior and depends on the avatar settings configured on your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Gravatar is enabled, Molongui Authorship checks whether the author has a Gravatar associated with their email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If no Gravatar is available, the plugin continues to the next available fallback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the Custom Default Avatar enabled, the usual flow is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gravatar \u2192 Custom Default Avatar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If the Custom Default Avatar is disabled, WordPress can use its own Default Avatar instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gravatar \u2192 WordPress Default Avatar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If Use a custom default avatar<\/strong> is enabled under Authors > Settings > General<\/strong>, Molongui Authorship uses that image when no higher-priority avatar is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is useful if you want all authors without an avatar to display the same branded or custom image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Gravatar is enabled but the Molongui Custom Default Avatar is disabled, WordPress can fall back to the Default Avatar configured under Settings > Discussion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This may be a Mystery Person, Identicon, Retro, Blank, or another option selected in WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gravatar requires an email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the author has no valid email address, Molongui Authorship skips Gravatar entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In that case, the next available source is used directly. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local Avatar \u2192 Custom Default Avatar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If neither source is available, no avatar may be displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Local Avatars are enabled and the author has one configured, the Local Avatar normally takes priority over Gravatar and default avatars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The standard priority is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local Avatar \u2192 Gravatar \u2192 Custom Default Avatar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To use a custom fallback image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To use WordPress’ Default Avatar instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes. Depending on where the avatar is being displayed, you can disable the available fallback sources or explicitly use a None<\/strong> fallback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, with Molongui Authorship Pro:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This displays the Gravatar when available and nothing otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If an author does not have a Gravatar, Molongui Authorship can automatically display a fallback avatar instead. This is expected behavior and depends on the avatar settings configured on your site. How the fallback works When Gravatar is enabled, Molongui Authorship checks whether the author has a Gravatar associated with their email address. If no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1,46],"tags":[61,39,13],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-doc","category-troubleshooting","tag-avatar","tag-faqs","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why am I seeing the Custom Default Avatar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why am I seeing the WordPress Default Avatar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What if the author has no email address?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What if the author has a Local Avatar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to change which default avatar is displayed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Can I show no fallback avatar at all?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
[molongui_author_avatar source=\"gravatar\" default=\"none\"]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n