Bart Kuijper

When displaying a post or comment with avatars enabled, WordPress will always check for the existence of a Gravatar. (Note: even the default avatars ‘mystery person’ and ‘blank’ are in fact Gravatars served from gravatar.com.) WordPress does this by sending an MD5 hash of every displayed post or comment author’s email address to gravatar.com. Even with many plugins that introduce locally stored default or user avatars, this check still happens. On top of that, some themes or plugins force (Gr)avatars to load even if the display of avatars is disabled completely in WordPress’ settings. If for whatever reason you do not wish for Gravatar to receive these requests (which some people have voiced GDPR concerns about), this plugin is for you.
The way it works is every time WordPress attempts to display an avatar, this plugin first checks if the image is about to be retrieved from gravatar.com. If it is, the URL is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image (included with this plugin). If the avatar has any other source, this plugin doesn’t interfere.
Gravatars are also removed from the Discussion page in Settings and replaced with the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. Again, any non-Gravatar images are left alone.
Upon activation of this plugin, if a Gravatar is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.
Upon deactivation of this plugin, if the locally stored ‘mystery person’ image is selected as the default avatar, that setting is changed to the Gravatar logo. If any non-Gravatar avatar is selected, that setting isn’t changed.

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Ashok Dudhat

WP Event Manager

Krinay Dhanani

Hitesh Makvana

Vijay Rathod

Rita Kikani

P User Profile Avatar allows you to change the default WordPress avatar or User profile picture. You can use any photos uploaded into your Media Library or use a custom photo URL as an avatar instead of using Gravatar.
Plugin Features
<ul>
<li>Lightweight and easy to use.</li>
<li>Upload an avatar image from media library or local computer.</li>
<li>Set avatar image using custom path url.</li>
<li>Visibility option whether show avatar or not.</li>
<li>Display user profile avatar shortcode [user_profile_avatar].</li>
<li>Upload avatar shortcode [user_profile_avatar_upload].</li>
<li>Allow anyone (Contributors & Subscribers) can upload avatar.</li>
<li>Disable Gravatar and use own custom avatars.</li>
<li>You can rate avatar as G, PG, R, X based on your appropriateness.</li>
<li>Allow to set default avatar. Default Avatar Allows you to pick a default image when no avatar exists.</li>
<li>SEO & Developer Friendly.</li>
</ul>
Set new user profile avatar from admin panel.
<ul>
<li>
Go Admin Dashboard -> Users -> All Users –> Select any user profile you would like to edit.
</li>
<li>
Find “WP User Profile Avatar” section, You can give new avatar url path or you can upload avatar using media library.
</li>
<li>
Update User.
</li>
</ul>
Display new user profile avatar at frontend side.
To retrieve the user avatar/photo on the front-end use one of the following approach in your template page(s).
1. Using shortcode and pass parameters based on your need.
<pre><code> Shortcode: [user_profile_avatar]
 Parameters: userid, size, align, link, target and caption.
 userid : id of the user.
 size: original,medium,large,thumbnail.
 align: alignleft,aligncenter,alignright.
 link: image, attachment, custom.
 target: _blank, self,
 caption: you can give any text value in between shortcode bracket and it will display below user avtar profile.


1.1 Display default avatar using visual editor.

 You can use the following shortcode in any page and it will show default avatar of the plugin.

 [user_profile_avatar] 

1.2 Display avatar for the perticular user using visual editor.

 if you want to show user profile for the user id 1.

 [user_profile_avatar user_id="1"] 

 You can also set other parameters like size, align, link, target and caption in this shortcode.

 Example: 

 [user_profile_avatar user_id="1" size="original" align="aligncenter" link="image" target="_blank"] Display Name [/user_profile_avatar]

1.3 if you want to assign dynamic user id in shortocde without using visual editor

<?php
 //for the logged user, Current user object
 $user = wp_get_current_user();

 echo do_shortcode('[user_profile_avatar user_id="<?php $user->id ?>" size="original" align="aligncenter" link="image" target="_blank"]'. $user->display_name .'[/user_profile_avatar]');

?>
</code></pre>
2. Using the function wpupa_get_url.
You will need to place below code in each area of your theme where you wish to add and retrieve your theme’s custom avatar image.
<pre><code>2.1 At Author page
-------------------

<?php

 // Get The Post's Author ID
 $authorID = get_the_author_meta('ID');
 $authorname = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $authorID);

 // Set the image size. Accepts all registered images sizes and array(int, int)
 $size = 'thumbnail';
 $imgURL='';

 // Get the image URL using the author ID and image size params
 if (function_exists('wpupa_get_url')) 
 $imgURL = wpupa_get_url($authorID, ['size' => $size]);

 // display image on the page
 echo '<img src="'. $imgURL .'" alt="'. $authorname .'">';

?>

2.2 Except Author page
----------------------

<?php

 // Current user object
 $user = wp_get_current_user();

 // Set the image size. Accepts all registered images sizes and array(int, int)
 $size = 'thumbnail';
 $imgURL='';

 // Get the image URL using the author ID and image size params
 if (function_exists('wpupa_get_url')) 
 $imgURL = wpupa_get_url($user->id, ['size' => $size]);

 // display image on the page
 echo '<img src="'. $imgURL .'" alt="'. $user->display_name .'">';

?>
</code></pre>
You will need to place above code in each area of your theme where you wish to add and retrieve your theme’s custom avatar image.
<h4>Be a contributor</h4>
If you want to contribute, go to our <a href="https://github.com/wpeventmanager/wp-user-profile-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">WP User Profile Avatar GitHub Repository</a> and see where you can help.
You can also add a new language via <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-user-profile-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>. We’ve built a short guide explaining <a href="https://www.wp-eventmanager.com/documentation/translating-wp-event-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">how to translate and localize the plugin</a>.
Thanks to all of our contributors.
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<ul>
<li>We are open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of our plugins!</li>
<li><a href="http://wp-eventmanager.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Drop us a line</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wp-eventmanager.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Also please have look our other plugins</a> or visit at <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-manager/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org plugin page</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Connect With US</h4>
To stay in touch and get latest update about WP User Profile Avatar’s further releases and features, you can connect with us via:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/wpeventmanager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/wp_eventmanager" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107105224603939407328/107105224603939407328" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Plus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/wp-event-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Linkedin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/wpeventmanager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfYxg-fegS_n9MaPNU61bg" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
1.WP Event Manager wants to give credit to GoogleAPIs as we are using GoogleAPIs to support users using their Google+ profile links on our plugin. 
2. WP Event Manager wants to give credit to Gravatar as we are using <a href="https://gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a> to support users using their Gravatar profile links on our plugin. Privacy policy page of <a href="http://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a>.

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