I found the images to be alittle awkward in the blog teasers. So I decided to make them 'dissappear' with this bit of CSS code in my theme css: .node-teaser .user-picture { display:none; } And bam...no more images in the teasers. Of course they are technically still loading but they don't show anymore at least. And in the future If I ever wanted to re-enable the images I can just comment out this little bit of CSS code and there they are, already cached :) Full view too? try this: .view-mode-full .user-picture { display:none; } - copystar