Cătălin Dogaru

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.
<h4>Help Preserve this Project</h4>
Want to support this project for continued development and freely available for everyone? Here’s how you can help preserve Avatar Manager:
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<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager#contributing" rel="nofollow ugc">Get involved.</a> Contribute a patch or help resolving an existing issue or confirmed feature request, or submit a translation.</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16020" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggest adding to core.</a> Whether you find Avatar Manager a good fit for WordPress core your feedback can help make a difference.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/avatar-manager#postform" rel="ugc">Add your own review.</a> Let others know how was your experience using Avatar Manager.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SMKJZHX7G3VQS" rel="nofollow ugc">Make a donation.</a> Keep me motivated with a candy bar or a theater ticket. Is that simple.</li>
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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 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/stats/" rel="ugc">growing audience</a>.
Thank you for choosing to contribute to Avatar Manager!
<h4>Contributing</h4>
Have a bug or a feature request? Please <a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">open a new issue</a>. Before opening any issue, please search for existing issues and read the <a href="https://github.com/necolas/issue-guidelines" rel="nofollow ugc">Issue Guidelines</a>, written by <a href="https://github.com/necolas/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Gallagher</a>. Please submit all pull requests against development branches.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/resourcestream/avatar-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Avatar Manager on GitHub</a></li>
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<h4>How It’s Made</h4>
Find out how Avatar Manager it’s made on <a href="http://code.tutsplus.com/series/how-to-create-a-wordpress-avatar-management-plugin-from-scratch--wp-33866" rel="nofollow ugc">Tuts+ Code</a>.
<h4>Authors</h4>
Cătălin Dogaru
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<li>https://profiles.wordpress.org/cdog</li>
<li>https://github.com/cdog</li>
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<h4>Contributors</h4>
Avatar Manager is brought to you by these fine folks.
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dikiy_forester" rel="nofollow ugc">Artem Frolov</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brikou" rel="nofollow ugc">Brice Capobianco</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ideos" rel="nofollow ugc">Guy Steyaert</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/artstorm" rel="nofollow ugc">Johan Steen</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wiiz83" rel="nofollow ugc">Lucas Uzan</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mateusneves" rel="nofollow ugc">Mateus Neves</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/modima65" rel="nofollow ugc">Maura Montero D.</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pietergoosen" rel="nofollow ugc">Pieter Goosen</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/schm168" rel="nofollow ugc">Samantha Muthiah</a>, 
<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/snowboardmommy" rel="nofollow ugc">Snowboard Mommy</a>
<h4>Copyright and License</h4>
Copyright © 2021 Cătălin Dogaru
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.

Avatar Manager


First off great that this plugin works, doesn’t cause download of huge images to display as small avatars and seems to work well 🙂



I like that it supports gravatar as a default.



I'm not sure it is still supported but if it is, it needs to have at least meta data updated so everything doesn't point to moved pages and needs to be marked as tested in release 6.4.2 or so...


Works in WP 6.4.2, Not sure is Still Supported

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

Amin Nazemi

Neatma

Protect your website from xmlrpc brute-force attacks,DOS and DDOS attacks, this plugin disables the XML-RPC and trackbacks-pingbacks on your WordPress website.
PLUGIN FEATURES 
(These are options you can enable or disable each one)
<ul>
<li>Disable access to xmlrpc.php file using .httacess file </li>
<li>Automatically change htaccess file permission to read-only (0444)</li>
<li>Disable X-pingback to minimize CPU usage </li>
<li>Disable selected methods from XML-RPC</li>
<li>Remove pingback-ping link from header</li>
<li>Disable trackbacks and pingbacks to avoid spammers and hackers</li>
<li>Rename XML-RPC slug to whatever you want</li>
<li>Black list IPs for XML-RPC</li>
<li>White list IPs for XML-RPC</li>
<li>Some options to speed-up your wordpress website</li>
<li>Disable JSON REST API</li>
<li>Hide WordPress Version</li>
<li>Disable built-in WordPress file editor</li>
<li>Disable wlw manifest</li>
<li>And some other options</li>
</ul>
What is XMLRPC
XML-RPC, or XML Remote Procedure Call is a protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. 
Beginning in WordPress 3.5, XML-RPC is enabled by default. Additionally, the option to disable/enable XML-RPC was removed. For various reasons, site owners may wish to disable this functionality. This plugin provides an easy way to do so.
Why you should disable XML-RPC 
Xmlrpc has two main weaknesses
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<li>Brute force attacks: 
Attackers try to login to WordPress using xmlrpc.php with as many username/password combinations as they can enter. A method within xmlrpc.php allows the attacker to use a single command (system.multicall) to guess hundreds of passwords. Daniel Cid at Sucuri described it well in October 2015: “With only 3 or 4 HTTP requests, the attackers could try thousands of passwords, bypassing security tools that are designed to look and block brute force attempts.”</li>
<li>Denial of Service Attacks via Pingback: 
Back in 2013, attackers sent Pingback requests through xmlrpc.php of approximately 2500 WordPress sites to “herd (these sites) into a voluntary botnet,” according to Gur Schatz at Incapsula. “This gives any attacker a virtually limitless set of IP addresses to Distribute a Denial of Service attack across a network of over 100 million WordPress sites, without having to compromise them.”</li>
</ul>

Disable XML-RPC-API

The upgrade notice keeps coming back on every screen even after being dismissed. It looks very unprofessional to my clients and is embarrassing for me as a web developer, i would rather disable the plugin and use the code in a function. 

It should be permanently dismissible via a cookie, like for other plugins. It might be ok once, when the plugin is first installed or updated, but after that, it should never appear again. 

Good plugin, but upgrade nag is too annoying

A simple and lightweight plugin to disable XML-RPC API, X-Pingback and pingback-ping in WordPress 3.5+ for a faster and more secure website

Avatar Manager vs Disable XML-RPC-API