I have SSO setup with WordPress and have the SSO Avatar override setting set on discourse so that it uses the avatar URL from my WordPress site. However it does not seem to update if the person is using Gravatar and changes their Gravatar image. If I look at the users profile SSO Info on Discourse I see the URL for the Gravatar icon and dropping that URL into my browser brings up the updated Gravatar. I know Discourse caches these so that it does not have to make so many calls to Gravatar. How often does Discourse check for updates on this? Since I have the override with SSO set there is no way to refresh the Gravatar from the profile edit screen. Thanks

Did you guys found a solution on this topic? I have the same issue as OP. I am using Wordpress SSO plugin and I configured discourse to use SSO avatar, but it won’t follow up gravatar changes.

[image] mautematico: it won’t follow up gravatar changes. I think the problem is that when a person changes their gravatar image, it doesn’t change the gravatar URL, so Discourse has no way of knowing that the avatar has changed. If a person wants their updated gravatar image to be used on Discourse, they need to go to their profile and edit their avatar. There is an option there to refresh the gravatar image.

What i did was add the avatar_force_update = true to the array parameters on the sso login string that is generated. This causes it to redownload the avatar each time the user logs in.

On the wordpress (sso provider) side, do you mean?

[image] mautematico: On the wordpress (sso provider) side, do you mean? Yes. I think this can be added as an option to the plugin. Possibly it should be the default behaviour.

yes. i just edited the discourse-sso.php of the Discourse WordPress plugin and added it to the params array there.

I am using pt-wp-discourse-sso, and also added it to the params array; howerever it won’t work https://github.com/mautematico/pt-wp-discourse-sso/commit/365877714e5768429cb85f6ab033b9505be31c7d Do you guys have any clue about what am I missing? Edit: Tried with string instead of boolean (‘true’ instead of true). Did not work either. Using string ‘true’, I can see logs like this one: Verbose SSO log: User was logged on > nonce: > name: > username: > email: > avatar_url: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ > avatar_force_update: true require_activation: bio: external_id: 1 return_sso_url: admin: moderator: suppress_welcome_message: title: add_groups: remove_groups: Howerever, avatar is not refreshed.

So far, I can’t get it working either. This works on a live site, I haven’t been able to get it working in my development environment. The SSO params that are sent to Discourse now have a filter applied to them, so you don’t need to override the plugin’s code. Adding something like this to your functions.php file should work. add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'my_namespace_force_avatar_update' ); function my_namespace_force_avatar_update( $sso_params ) { $sso_params['avatar_force_update'] = 'true'; return $sso_params; }

Does this work with custom Profile Builders at all? That have their own avatar upload feature built in? My user avatars have the URL of something like"../wp-content/uploads/…" but it doesn’t seem to update on Discourse, even with the avatar_force_update code above. Thanks!

[image] sunnyt7: Does this work with custom Profile Builders at all? That have their own avatar upload feature built in? From looking at the Discourse code, it seems like it should work. Do you have the Discourse setting ‘sso overrides avatar’ enabled? If not, could you try enabling it and see if that makes a difference?

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sunnyt7 (Sunny T) June 4, 2017, 4:36am 21

Ah it works! Thank you so much!

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