February 02, 2021

Avatar Manager Plugin

Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.

Enhance your WordPress website by letting your users choose between using Gravatar or a self-hosted avatar image right from their profile screen. Improved workflow, on-demand image generation and custom user permissions under a native interface. Say hello to the Avatar Manager plugin.

Help Preserve this Project

Want to support this project for continued development and freely available for everyone? Here’s how you can help preserve Avatar Manager:

Get involved. Contribute a patch or help resolving an existing issue or confirmed feature request, or submit a translation.
Suggest adding to core. Whether you find Avatar Manager a good fit for WordPress core your feedback can help make a difference.
Add your own review. Let others know how was your experience using Avatar Manager.
Make a donation. Keep me motivated with a candy bar or a theater ticket. Is that simple.

Avatar Manager is a user-driven project, and all developments and enhancements depend on users like you! Become a contributor or make a donation, and get your name featured in front of a growing audience.

Thank you for choosing to contribute to Avatar Manager!

Contributing

Have a bug or a feature request? Please open a new issue. Before opening any issue, please search for existing issues and read the Issue Guidelines, written by Nicolas Gallagher. Please submit all pull requests against development branches.

Avatar Manager on GitHub

How It’s Made

Find out how Avatar Manager it’s made on Tuts+ Code.

Authors

Cătălin Dogaru

https://profiles.wordpress.org/cdog
https://github.com/cdog

Contributors

Avatar Manager is brought to you by these fine folks.

Artem Frolov,
Brice Capobianco,
Guy Steyaert,
Johan Steen,
Lucas Uzan,
Mateus Neves,
Maura Montero D.,
Pieter Goosen,
Samantha Muthiah,
Snowboard Mommy

Copyright and License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Installation

Installation is simple as peas.

Install Avatar Manager either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server.
After activating Avatar Manager, you will be able to customize the plugin options under the Settings Discussion Screen.
That’s it. You’re ready to go!

Screenshots

Avatar Manager options under the Settings Discussion Screen.
Avatar Manager options under the Users Your Profile Screen.
Avatar Manager options under the Users Your Profile Screen.

FAQ

Can I choose between my Gravatar and my custom avatar?

Yes, you can choose between your Gravatar and your custom avatar under the Users Your Profile Screen.

Can I choose a rating for my custom avatar?

Yes, you can choose a rating for your custom avatar under the Users Your Profile Screen.

Can low privileged users upload their own avatar?

Yes, you can enable this feature under the Settings Discussion Screen.

Can I add the self-hosted avatars to my template files?

Yes, you can add the self-hosted avatars to your template files by using the WordPress built-in get_avatar() function to retrieve the avatar for a user who provided a user ID or email address.

Can I create a default custom avatar?

Yes, you can easily add your own by adding a filter to the avatar_defaults hook. After uploading the new image to your theme files, add this to your theme’s function.php file:

<?php function custom_avatar_defaults ( $avatar_defaults ) { $avatar_url = get_bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) . '/images/avatar-default.png'; $avatar_defaults[$avatar_url] = __( 'Custom Default Avatar', 'mytextdomain' ); return $avatar_defaults; } add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'custom_avatar_defaults' ); ?>

Now, go to Settings Discussion Screen and select your new avatar from the list.

Changelog

1.6.1

Updated minified files.
Grunt tasks.
Mexican Spanish localization.
Minor bug fixes.

1.6.0

Media Library support.
Action and filter hooks.
Brazilian Portuguese localization.
French localization.
Major bug fixes.

1.5.1

Minified script files.
Minor bug fixes.

1.5.0

Multisite support.
Dutch localization.
Afrikaans localization.

1.4.0

Front-end support.
Russian localization.
Minor bug fixes.

1.3.0

XML-RPC support.
Minor bug fixes.

1.2.2

Minor bug fixes.

1.2.1

Action and filter hooks.

1.2.0

Media states.

1.1.0

Romanian localization.
Minor bug fixes.

1.0.0

Initial release.