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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.
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.
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.
<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 → 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.

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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.

Rathly Profile Avatars vs Advanced User Avatar | Custom Profile Picture Uploader for WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress