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Resources and plugins for popular content management systems will help you use Gravatar in no time. From a streamlined signup flow to image manipulation and other built‑in benefits, Gravatar offers many possibilities through open standards.

Implement Gravatar API

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const md5 = require( 'md5' );

function getGravatarURL( email ) {
  // Trim leading and trailing whitespace from
  // an email address and force all characters
  // to lower case
  const address = String( email ).trim().toLowerCase();

  // Create an MD5 hash of the final string
  const hash = md5( address );

  // Grab the actual image URL
  return `https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/${ hash }`;
}

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function get_gravatar_url( $email ) {
  // Trim leading and trailing whitespace from
  // an email address and force all characters
  // to lower case
  $address = strtolower( trim( $email ) );

  // Create an MD5 hash of the final string
  $hash = md5( $address );

  // Grab the actual image URL
  return 'https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . $hash;
}

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