Rafael @ Nocksoft

<p>Adds support for local avatars for your users so you don’t have to use Gravatar. You can also redirect all Gravatar requests to a local avatar.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds support for local avatars for authors so that you dont need to use an Gravatar account</li>
<li>Option to redirect all Gravatar requests to a local avatar to improve performance and privacy</li>
</ul>
<h3>Setup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install plugin.</li>
<li>(optional) Go to user profiles to tick local avatars and choose your local personal avatar.</li>
<li>(optional) Go to “Settings” -> “Local Avatars” to setup global settings like deactivation of Gravatar.</li>
</ul>


Local Avatars by Nocksoft

Adds support for local avatars as an alternative to Gravatar.

Christian Hockenberger

<p>Custom Post Avatar is inspired by Aaron Parecki’s Emoji Avatars functionality on his website (https://aaronparecki.com/2019/02/25/9/emoji), but instead of beeing related to the used emojis in the content it is possible to choose it from the media library independend.</p>
<p>Major features in Custom Post Avatar:</p>
<ul>
<li>Optionally select custom avatar for each post.</li>
<li>Replace avatar only for the post author, not for comment authors.</li>
</ul>
<p>To get results out of this plugin you’ll need a theme displaying user avatars via the get_avatar function.</p>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Optional Caching of Commenter Avatars</li>
<li>Possibility to remove avatars from user profile</li>
<li>Possibility to edit other user avatars as admin</li>
<li>Possibility to remove avatar from post (reset to default)</li>
</ul>


Custom Post Avatar

Custom Post Avatar gives you the possibility to replace your default avatar by a custom image on each post individually.

Local Avatars by Nocksoft vs Custom Post Avatar