Rathly Marketing

<p>Rathly Profile Avatars replaces the default Gravatar with your own uploaded images, giving every user a custom profile picture chosen straight from the WordPress Media Library. No external services, no accounts to create, and no code required. Each user sets their avatar on their own profile screen, and it appears everywhere your theme shows an avatar.</p>
<p>Gravatar ties a user’s photo to their email address on a third-party service, which is not always what you want. Maybe your authors do not have Gravatar accounts, maybe you want consistent on-brand headshots for a team or about-us page, or maybe you would simply rather keep avatar images on your own site. Rathly Profile Avatars lets you do exactly that while still working with any theme that relies on the standard WordPress avatar functions.</p>
<p>Because it hooks the core get_avatar and get_avatar_url filters, your custom images show up in comments, author boxes, the admin bar, the users list, and anywhere else WordPress renders an avatar. If a user has not set a custom image, the normal Gravatar is used, so nothing breaks.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Upload custom avatars from the WordPress Media Library</li>
<li>Replaces Gravatar everywhere standard avatar functions are used</li>
<li>Per-user: each person manages their own avatar on their profile</li>
<li>Works with any theme that uses get_avatar or get_avatar_url</li>
<li>Responsive images with automatic sizing</li>
<li>No third-party services: nothing leaves your site</li>
<li>Clean uninstall: removes its data when the plugin is deleted</li>
</ul>
<h4>Useful links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.rathlymarketing.com/blog/custom-author-avatar/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin page and guide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rathlymarketing.com/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support and questions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/harrylaurel/Rathly-Profile-Avatars" rel="nofollow ugc">Source code on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to your user profile (Users <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Your Profile)</li>
<li>Scroll down to the “Rathly Profile Avatars” section</li>
<li>Click “Choose Image” to select or upload your avatar</li>
<li>Save your profile</li>
<li>Your custom avatar will now appear instead of Gravatar</li>
</ol>


Rathly Profile Avatars

Replace standard Gravatar with custom uploaded images for author avatars.

Alexandra

<p><strong>Real Simple Avatar</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<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 <strong>only</strong> 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>
<p><strong>Real Simple Avatar</strong> — плагин для загрузки своего аватара. По умолчанию рандомный цвет + инициалы. А также на выбор готовые аватарки. При загрузке нового аватара медиафайл старого аватара удаляется.</p>
<ul>
<li>Шорткод <code>[rsava_avatar_form]</code> для загрузки аватара.</li>
<li>Настройки плагина в <strong>Настройки <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Аватар</strong>.</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>
<p>Tested with PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. Tested with WordPress 5.0 – 6.9.4</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.</p>


Real Simple Avatar

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

Rathly Profile Avatars vs Real Simple Avatar