title: How to remove Gravatar bbPress + BuddyPress + Wordpress?
body: <p>I have bbPress 2.1.2 and BuddyPress 1.6.1 installed on a WordPress 3.4.2 site.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, on the forums, avatar errors show for users who do not have avatars images in <code>/wp-content/uploads/avatars/</code> instead of the mystery man.</p>
  
  <p>How do I remove Gravatar completely from WordPress and use BuddyPress' avatars instead?
  In case a user does not have any avatar yet, a default image should show up.</p>
  
  <p>The source of the erroneous avatars at the moment is like  </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e?d=http://mywebsite.com/forums/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg&amp;s=80&amp;r=G
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Users who have uploaded their avatars properly, the avatars have source like the following:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://mywebsite.com/forums/wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/d4f01e214d783339fc186ec365307ed1-bpfull.jpg
  </code></pre>