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Ammaletu

Avatars from Gravatar.com are great, but they come with certain privacy implications. You as site admin may already know this, but your visitors and users probably don’t. Avatar Privacy can help to improve the privacy situation by making some subtle changes to the way avatars are displayed on your site.
The plugin works without changing your theme files (for reasonably modern themes), and it does support multisite installations. Please note that the plugin does not provide an options page of its own, it rather adds to the existing discussion settings page.
<h4>Features</h4>
The plugin’s features summed up:
<ul>
<li>Self-uploaded avatars for users (and custom default images), hosted on your server.</li>
<li>Users and commenters explicitly opt-in before using gravatars.</li>
<li>Gravatar caching to ensure the privacy of your website visitors.</li>
<li>Don’t publish weakly encrypted e-mail addresses of comment authors.</li>
</ul>
A more detailed examination of the <a href="https://code.mundschenk.at/avatar-privacy/reasons/" rel="nofollow ugc">reasons for using Avatar Privacy</a> can be found on the plugin homepage.
<h4>WP-CLI Commands</h4>
Avatar Privacy includes the following <a href="https://wp-cli.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a> commands:
<ul>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db show</code>: Show information about the custom database table(s).</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db list</code>: List entries in the custom database table(s).</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db create</code>: Create the custom database table.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy db upgrade</code>: Upgrade the structure of the custom database table.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default get-custom-default-avatar</code>: Show information about the custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default set-custom-default-avatar</code>: Set a custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy default delete-custom-default-avatar</code>: Delete the custom default avatar for the site.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy cron list</code>: List active cron jobs created by the plugin.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy cron delete</code>: Delete cron jobs created by the plugin.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy user set-local-avatar</code>: Set a local avatar image for a user.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy user delete-local-avatar</code>: Delete the local avatar image for a user.</li>
<li><code>wp avatar-privacy uninstall</code>: Remove data added by Avatar Privacy.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
Please report any problems with the plugin, I’ll do my best to sort things out. You can use the contact form on <a href="https://code.mundschenk.at/avatar-privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">my code site</a> or <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/avatar-privacy" rel="ugc">create a topic in the support forum</a>. You can contact me in German or English.
<h4>Credits</h4>
Avatar Privacy is based on the original plugin by <a href="http://code.freudendahl.net/projekte/avatar-privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Johannes Freudendahl</a>. The new release also includes work by several other people:
<ul>
<li>Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi (<a href="https://jdenticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Jdenticon</a>),</li>
<li>Shamus Young (<a href="https://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462"" rel="nofollow ugc">Wavatars</a>),</li>
<li>Andreas Gohr (the original <a href="https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2007-01/20_monsterid_as_gravatar_fallback" rel="nofollow ugc">MonsterID</a> and <a href="https://github.com/splitbrain/php-ringicon" rel="nofollow ugc">RingIcon</a>),</li>
<li>Scott Sherrill-Mix & Katherine Garner (the <a href="http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid-update-hand-drawn-monsters/" rel="nofollow ugc">hand-drawn monster update</a>)</li>
<li>Benjamin Laugueux, Grummfy, Lucas Michot & Arjen van der Meijden (<a href="https://github.com/yzalis/Identicon" rel="nofollow ugc">Identicon</a>),</li>
<li>David Revoy (<a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article720/bird-avatar-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Bird</a> and <a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-avatar-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Cat Avatars</a>),</li>
<li>Zikri Kader, Colin Davis & Nimiq (<a href="https://robohash.org" rel="nofollow ugc">RoboHash</a>), and</li>
<li>Johanna Amann (the Avatar Privacy icon).</li>
</ul>

Avatar Privacy

Enhances the privacy of your users and visitors with gravatar opt-in and local avatars.

wpmakedev

iamprazol

Your WooCommerce customers are faceless. Reviews come from anonymous silhouettes, the My Account dashboard greets returning shoppers with a generic placeholder, and every account in your store feels like a transaction instead of a person. Faceless reviews are trusted less, and anonymous accounts give your customers no reason to feel connected to your brand.
Advanced User Avatar gives every WooCommerce customer a real profile photo, uploaded from their device in seconds. The avatar appears in the WooCommerce My Account dashboard and on the Account Details page automatically. For BuddyPress communities, it replaces the default avatar uploader with a faster, friendlier flow. For any other WordPress site, drop the avatar uploader anywhere using a shortcode or the Gutenberg block.
<h4>Features</h4>
WooCommerce integration
<ul>
<li>My Account Dashboard avatar — customer’s profile photo displays on the dashboard the moment they log in</li>
<li>Account Details upload field — customers update their photo from the same page they manage their account</li>
<li>Page builder compatible — works alongside Bricks Builder and other builders without duplicate template rendering</li>
<li>Product review avatars — coming in version 2, so reviewers show as real people on product pages</li>
</ul>
BuddyPress integration
<ul>
<li>Replaces the default BuddyPress avatar uploader with the same upload, crop, and webcam flow used across your site</li>
<li>Displays on member profile pages and the member directory so communities feel populated by people, not placeholders</li>
</ul>
Better Messages integration
<ul>
<li>Custom avatars appear in the Better Messages chat interface automatically, replacing the default Gravatar with the user’s uploaded photo</li>
</ul>
Upload experience
<ul>
<li>Crop interface — customers position and size their photo before saving</li>
<li>Webcam capture — take a photo directly in the browser, no file needed</li>
<li>EXIF orientation handling — phone photos stay upright after cropping</li>
<li>File type validation — admin chooses which of JPG, PNG, and GIF are allowed</li>
<li>Max file size control — set the upload ceiling from settings</li>
<li>Auto-generated image sizes — multiple thumbnails created on upload for fast display everywhere</li>
</ul>
Placement options for developers and site builders
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[wpmake_advance_user_avatar_upload]</code> renders the full upload form on any page</li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[wpmake_advance_user_avatar]</code> outputs the current user’s avatar</li>
<li>Gutenberg block for drag-and-drop placement in the block editor</li>
</ul>
<h4>No Gravatar, no external data sharing</h4>
Gravatar sends a hash of every visitor’s email address to an external server to fetch their photo. For EU stores and any site under GDPR scope, that third-party request is a compliance question your legal team would rather not answer. Advanced User Avatar stores every photo on your own server. No outbound requests, no hashed emails leaving your site, no third-party dependency.
Install the plugin and give your customers a face on your store.

Advanced User Avatar | Custom Profile Picture Uploader for WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress


No nonsense avatar plugin. I wanted an easy block based avatar placement option and this makes it super easy. Keep the simple nature of the plugin.


Easy and useful

Let WooCommerce customers upload profile photos shown on My Account, reviews, and member pages — no Gravatar account required.

Avatar Privacy vs Advanced User Avatar | Custom Profile Picture Uploader for WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress