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Custom Profile Picture Upload: Users can upload their own avatars directly from the frontend or the “Edit Profile” screen, allowing for a personalized profile picture experience. 
Automatic Thumbnail Generation: When users upload a new avatar, the plugin automatically generates resized images (thumbnails) for optimal display in different contexts. 
Real-Time Avatar Update: The plugin provides a smooth and intuitive user experience by allowing users to preview their avatar changes instantly, without having to refresh the page. 
Simple File Handling: Supports JPEG, PNG, and GIF formats, ensuring compatibility with common image types. 
Fully Integrated with WordPress User Profiles: The custom avatar replaces the default Gravatar for each user, while still keeping Gravatar as a fallback if no custom avatar is uploaded. 
Clean and Lightweight: Kilho’s Simple Avatar focuses on simplicity and efficiency, ensuring minimal impact on your site’s performance. 
This plugin is perfect for websites looking to provide users with more control over their profile customization, while keeping the interface simple and responsive.

Kilho's Simple Avatar

Add a simple avatar upload field to user profiles for custom profile pictures, with automatic resizing and real-time updates.

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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.

Kilho's Simple Avatar vs Advanced User Avatar | Custom Profile Picture Uploader for WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress