Colormelon

Receiving a comment on your blog post is great and the more comments the better the feeling. It means that not only your post is good but your site becomes more and more popular and thrust-worthy. When comments start rolling in, you must make sure they display properly and look good. It’s great when a comment author has taken the time to upload a custom image of herself on her Gravatar account, but as we all know only a handful of people actually do that. This means that your precious comment area ends up filled with no-face, gray avatar thumbnails that look plane boring.
Well, that ends here and now!
Take control of the way your comment area looks by installing Avatar Project. Avatar Project is a plugin that will replace all avatar icons that don’t have a custom avatar assigned to it. Depending on your websites look, feel and theme, choose one of our Avatar Project icon packs. Currently you have a choice between colorful blobers, cups hoped up on caffeine, smug cat faces and a bunch of actual human portraits. 
This plugin will be useful for not only real, functioning blogs but for theme developers and designers as well. Install Avatar Project, write a couple of sample comments and make your comment area demonstration look much nicer than it would with the default avatars.

Avatar Project

Receiving a comment on your blog post is great and the more comments the better the feeling. It means that not only your post is good but your site be …

Alexandra

Real Simple Avatar lets your users upload a custom profile photo or pick from a set of preset avatars. If no avatar is set, a colourful initials avatar is generated automatically — keeping your site looking polished without any extra effort from your users.
Features
<ul>
<li>Shortcode <code>[rsava_avatar_form]</code> — place on any page or post so logged-in users can manage their avatar without going to the admin panel.</li>
<li>AJAX upload — avatar updates happen instantly, without a page reload.</li>
<li>Custom photo upload — users can upload their own image; it is cropped to a configurable square size (default 240 × 240 px). Only one file is stored in the Media Library per user (old file is deleted automatically on replacement or deletion).</li>
<li>Initials fallback — if no avatar is set, a colourful SVG avatar made from the user’s initials is shown everywhere WordPress displays an avatar.</li>
<li>Preset avatars — choose from built-in preset images or replace them entirely with your own set via the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Fine-grained settings:
<ul>
<li>Enable / disable custom photo upload in the shortcode.</li>
<li>Enable / disable the preset avatar grid in the shortcode.</li>
<li>Configure which image formats are accepted (PNG, JPG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, GIF).</li>
<li>Set the maximum upload file size (MB).</li>
<li>Set the crop size in pixels (e.g. 240 for 240 × 240 px). Uploaded images are stored only at this size — no extra WordPress sub-sizes are generated.</li>
<li>Customise the background colours and text colour used for initials avatars.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Admin profile page — admins can upload or remove a user’s avatar directly from the Edit User screen.</li>
<li>Clean uninstall — optionally delete all plugin settings and uploaded avatar media files when the plugin is deleted.</li>
<li>Partial Russian translation included.</li>
</ul>
Real Simple Avatar — плагин для загрузки своего аватара. По умолчанию рандомный цвет + инициалы. А также на выбор готовые аватарки. При загрузке нового аватара медиафайл старого аватара удаляется.
<ul>
<li>Шорткод <code>[rsava_avatar_form]</code> для загрузки аватара.</li>
<li>Настройки плагина в Настройки → Аватар.</li>
<li>Можно самостоятельно выбрать рандомные цвета и цвет инициалов в аватарке.</li>
<li>Можно отключить загрузку аватара в шорткоде и оставить выбор только из готовых аватарок.</li>
<li>Можно отключить готовые аватарки в плагине и добавить свои. То есть сделать свой пресет аватарок.</li>
<li>В настройках можно ограничить до какого размера будут обрезаться аватарки. Например 240 × 240 px. Только этот размер медиафайла будет храниться в медиатеке.</li>
<li>При загрузке нового аватара или удалении аватара медиафайл прошлого аватара будет всегда удаляться. Таким образом ваша медиатека WordPress будет всегда в порядке и чистоте.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
Tested with PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. Tested with WordPress 5.0 – 6.9.4
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.

Real Simple Avatar

Upload avatar for users, preset avatars, and initials fallback.

Avatar Project vs Real Simple Avatar