Chris

<p>Describr is the best membership and user profile plugin for WordPress. Describr makes it easy to create beautiful user profiles on the front end. Describr is extensible and makes it easy for you to create websites where users can become members. Describr gives you powerful tools to add capabilities to roles and restrict content.</p>
<h3>Major Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Front-end user profiles.</li>
<li>Front-end account page.</li>
<li>Allows you to create capabilities, grant/deny capabilities to user roles, and delete user roles.</li>
<li>Allows you to grant users having specific roles the capability to delete their accounts on the front end.</li>
<li>Allows you to restrict content on user profiles using user roles.</li>
<li>Allows you to choose the fields that are shown on user profiles and the account page.</li>
<li>Allows you to activate or deactivate users.</li>
<li>Allows you to set Default User Status.</li>
<li>Allows you to change users’ status.</li>
<li>Allows you to force users to confirm their accounts.</li>
<li>Adds password field to registration form.</li>
<li>Email notifications.</li>
<li>Users can send messages to each other.</li>
<li>Users can block other users.</li>
<li>Users can upload profile photos.</li>
<li>Users can grant access to their profiles to specific set of users.</li>
<li>Shows author posts & comments on user profiles.</li>
<li>Extensible with many filters and actions.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the structure of the URLs used to locate user profiles and account page on the front end <a href="https://github.com/describr/versions/blob/main/Front-END-URL-STRUCT.md" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>PS: If a feature does not work properly, report it at <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/describr/" rel="ugc">our support page</a>, and we will fix the issue as soon as possible.</p>
<h3>Repositories for JavaScript Libraries</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui" rel="nofollow ugc">jquery-ui</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/catamphetamine/libphonenumber-js" rel="nofollow ugc">libphonenumber-js</a></li>
</ol>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>The plugin has many downloads, over 2000, but few active installations. This makes us very interested in finding out why people download the plugin but decide not to use it. If you fall into this category, we kindly ask that you leave your feedback at our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583259841927" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook page</a>.</p>


Describr – Membership, User Profile, Content Restriction & Role Editor Plugin

The best membership plugin including front-end user profiles, user registration, content restriction, user roles, and more.

10up

Jeffrey Paul

Oomph, Inc.

Jake Goldman

Darin Kotter

Faisal Alvi

<p>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.</p>
<p>Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new “Avatar” field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing!</p>
<ol>
<li>Stores avatars in the “uploads” folder where all of your other media is kept.</li>
<li>Has a simple, native interface.</li>
<li>Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user – but also allows you turn off Gravatar.</li>
<li>Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar!</li>
<li>Lets you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar.</li>
<li>Enables rating of local avatars, just like Gravatar.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support Level</h3>
<p>Simple Local Avatars’ support level is marked as <code>stable</code>.  10up is not planning to develop any new features for this, but will still respond to bug reports and security concerns.  We welcome PRs, but any that include new features should be small and easy to integrate and should not include breaking changes.  We otherwise intend to keep this tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.</p>


Simple Local Avatars

I've 100+ writers on a news website. It's was so hard for to everybody create an account in Gravatar. This plugin helps me a lot to upload writer photos from the dashboard.

Hats of the plugin author.

Great plugin

Great Plugin Great Support


The support of the WordPress REST API is a lifesaver for me. Simple Local Avatars is the only avatar plugin I know of that supports the REST API.I used it in my React with WordPress Tutorial. Without it, the whole Tutorial wouldn't have worked.


Does what it says and supports REST API


I like that it allows gravatar to continue to be used. If you set the local only option however all your existing avatars will be reset to the same avatar.  People get used to their own avatars and these shouldn't change, they should be copied locally from gravatar when the option is set if local copies don't already exist.  Croping also fails.  Looks like I need to look for another plugin as this is no longer under development.


Good but with "Features"


This plugin does well in extending WordPress' Avatar capabilities.


Nice Plugin

Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar!

Describr – Membership, User Profile, Content Restriction & Role Editor Plugin vs Simple Local Avatars