Simple Local Avatars

Description

Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles if the current user has media permissions. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar! Simple and lightweight.

Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new “Avatar” field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing!

  1. Stores avatars in the “uploads” folder where all of your other media is kept.
  2. Has a simple, native interface.
  3. Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user – but also allows you turn off Gravatar.
  4. Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar!
  5. Lets you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar.
  6. Enables rating of local avatars, just like Gravatar.

Screenshots

  • Avatar upload field on a user profile page

Installation

  1. Install easily with the WordPress plugin control panel or manually download the plugin and upload the extracted folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. If you only want users with file upload capabilities to upload avatars, check the applicable option under Settings > Discussion
  4. Start uploading avatars by editing user profiles!

Use avatars in your theme using WordPress’ built in get_avatar() function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_avatar

You can also use get_simple_local_avatar() (with the same arguments) to retrieve local avatars a bit faster, but this will make your theme dependent on this plug-in.

FAQ

Does Simple Local Avatars collect personal data of website visitors?

No. Simple Local Avatars neither collects, stores, nor sends any PII data of visitors or avatar users on the host site or to 10up or other services.

Reviews

Îlon 9, 2024 1 reply
No issues here. Works fine, just make sure to have Avatars on in the Setting > Discussion.
Tebax 2, 2024 1 reply
works fine for me, thank you dev team
Tîrmeh 7, 2024 1 reply
I just realized that the avatars are looking good on the front end webpage, although not in the back end, like in the upper right side of the page after login or in the wordpress/users/username/avatar settings, image looks url broken. I hope you can understand what I’m trying to say, and hopefully check on that, other than that great plugin!
Tîrmeh 1, 2024 1 reply
This plugin sounded like just what I wanted: a simple solution for a minimalist blog site. Unfortunately, it just plain didn’t work. No avatar ever appeared anywhere, although it did upload images to my Media Library. I tried for support through WordPress.org and got what looked like a quick, comprehensive response, which asked a few more questions and didn’t actually help me otherwise. I answered the questions over a week ago. Now I’m joining others who didn’t actually get support and complained about it not working. This plugin is a good idea and may have once worked, but from my perspective all it did was burn my time and patience and ultimately fail me. Definitely not recommended.
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Local Avatars” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.7.11 – 2024-07-18

Note that this release bumps the minimum required version of WordPress from 6.3 to 6.4.

2.7.10 – 2024-05-24

2.7.9 – 2024-05-14

2.7.8 – 2024-05-08

Note that this release bumps the minimum required version of WordPress from 5.7 to 6.3.

2.7.7 – 2023-12-13

2.7.6 – 2023-11-30

2.7.5 – 2023-05-15

2.7.4 – 2023-02-23

2.7.3 – 2023-01-16

2.7.2 – 2023-01-13

2.7.1 – 2022-12-08

  • Added: Added missing files from the last release and changed the readme file to fix the bullet points and added fullstops.

2.7.0 – 2022-12-08

View historical changelog details here.