Javascript Implementation for the Author Box on a post loads Gravatar would like to support WP Avatar or BP Avatar

[garretthyder]

Hello,

I opened a support ticket - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-author-box-rendering-of-avatar-uses-gravatar?replies=1#post-7210800

But figured this might be a better place to discuss the issue.

When editing a post the author box is generated via javascript; This javascript implementation simply uses the gravatar url comprised of the users MD5 email;

    // Adapted from http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/get-gravatar-using-only-javascript.html
    function get_gravatar_link(email, size) {
        var size = size || 80;  

        // need to check if page is secure or not 
        var gravatar_url = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/';
        if ("https:" == document.location.protocol) {
                // secure
            gravatar_url =  'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/';
        }
        return gravatar_url + MD5(email) + '.jpg?s=' + size;
    }

When using Buddypress or WP Avatar the avatars are loaded into the actual system and gravatar is just a fall back. I'd like to support Buddypress Avatars and was wondering if there's anyway to access them through javascript so as to amend the co-authors-plus.js script to utilize the appropriate avatar image.

Thoughts/Advice appreciated. Thanks

[mjangda]

This is due to a limitation of the autocomplete library we're using. Might finally be time to upgrade to a better autocomplete library that returns data via JSON or some other structured format rather than a list of text.