Removing Gravators from Gavick templates

Gravatars

Can someone from Gavick please advise how to totally remove any reference to or links to Gravatar at Gravatars.com on all Gavick Joomla Templates

There is little on this forum about why Gavick makes people link to Gravatars that take up valuable left hand side space on templates for Gravatar images.

It may be a Joomla thing but Gavick can tell use how to opt out as their templates are affected.

Also, the presence of Gravatars means that every page on every Gavick template in use around the World must communicate with Gravatar.com during page load.

I do not want every one who uses my page to have to load something from a third party site and I do not want to show a Gravator or be forced to lose 85 px on the left hand side of articles.

So, Gavick.... show us how to get rid of Gravatars... or at least those who want to.

Sorry but I cant provide solution for each and every template. If you would ask for a specifice one - I can point you into the right direction. Finding solution for other templates is up to you.
Ps - I have already answered similar question on the forum so you can search for it instead and try to adapt the solution to other templates.

PsPs - today gravatar is kind of standard in blogs business.

how i can remove the gravatars in the blog section?(in the comments) I am using Restaurant template of quark.

@xWiz Could you please post an url to your site?

Sorry but I cant provide solution for each and every template. If you would ask for a specifice one - I can point you into the right direction. Finding solution for other templates is up to you.
Ps - I have already answered similar question on the forum so you can search for it instead and try to adapt the solution to other templates.

PsPs - today gravatar is kind of standard in blogs business.

Hi

Gavick could help people to opt out of forcing everyone to go to Gravatar.com

Simplicity and Quark help would be good.

Thx

Well if an answer on how to remove Gravatars from 2 Gavick templates is a big ask then let's go for just simplicity

To Gavick folks... How do people using Simplicity template on Joomla 3 remove the need to go to Gravatar.com for every article when it is published.

It is a waste of left hand side space and serves no useful purpose.

I'm sorry, this is a redesign question - gravatar is there by the design. Redesigning is beyond our technical support. I already provided you with enough information for someone who knows code at least a little bit to be able to deal with that... If you are not a frontend or backend developer, perhaps you could find someone to do this custom job.

I'm sorry, this is a redesign question - gravatar is there by the design. Redesigning is beyond our technical support. I already provided you with enough information for someone who knows code at least a little bit to be able to deal with that... If you are not a frontend or backend developer, perhaps you could find someone to do this custom job.

It is a feature that appears in Simplicity.... so it is a Gavick issue.... Rather than send people on a hunt for past posts that might touch on an issue affecting a paid customer it would be more beneficial from a marketing perspective to be "nice" and provide a link to a reputed answer.

And after hunting around you provide an answer on removing Gravatars from K2. My site does not use K2 or the component so there is no help in your forum.

If you provide a way to turn off gravatars then what is it?

In simplicity - please search all template files for this content:

Code: Select all

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/


For single article it is in:
templates/gk_simplicity/html/com_content/article/default.php
file.

Ps. Original topic is about quark template. If you have any other questions corresponding to the simplicity template, please create a separate forum thread.