Butterfly88

<p>Whether you’re running a community site, a social network, or any BuddyPress-powered platform, Simple BuddyPress Signup Avatar helps you create a more engaging and personalized user experience from the very beginning. Simple Buddypress Signup Avatar enhances the BuddyPress registration process by allowing users to upload their avatar during sign-up.</p>
<p>This plugin is specifically designed for BuddyPress installations that use email confirmation and/or admin approval for new registrations. It provides a seamless integration with BuddyPress, offering customizable options for avatar uploads including file size limits, dimension restrictions, and image compression. Temporary avatars are securely stored and managed until account activation, whether through email confirmation or admin approval.</p>
<h3>Why this plugin?</h3>
<p>Getting users to upload avatars can be a challenge in BuddyPress communities. Unlike profile fields, avatars can’t be made mandatory. The issue is that a community with few real-user avatars can feel uninviting. Member directories and widgets end up looking dull and uninspiring. Too many default “mystery man” avatars floating around can give the impression that the social network is overrun with spammers.</p>
<p>One way to encourage users to upload an avatar is to make it the first thing they see when registering for your community. Simple BuddyPress Signup Avatar is a new plugin that adds avatar upload functionality to the registration form.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Avatar upload during BuddyPress registration</li>
<li>Compatible with BuddyPress email confirmation and admin approval processes</li>
<li>Customizable maximum file size and dimensions</li>
<li>Image compression options</li>
<li>Automatically removes EXIF data for privacy</li>
<li>Secure temporary file storage until account activation</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of unused temporary avatars for unactivated accounts (weekly)</li>
<li>Live frontend preview functionality for uploaded avatars</li>
<li>Multilingual support. Currently available in the major languages: EN, DE, NL, FR, ES</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>BuddyPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.2 or higher</li>
<li>BuddyPress must be configured to use email confirmation and/or admin approval for new registrations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Once activated and configured, the avatar upload field will automatically appear in the BuddyPress registration form. Users can upload their avatar during registration. The avatar will be stored temporarily and will only be finalized once the user’s account is activated, either through email confirmation or admin approval.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, you have several options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create an issue in the <a href="https://github.com/flowerz88/simple-bp-signup-avatar" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</li>
<li>Contact the <a href="https://github.com/flowerz88" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin author</a> directly.</li>
<li>Open a support ticket on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-buddypress-signup-avatar/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org plugin forum</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>We strive to provide timely and helpful support through all these channels. Please provide as much detail as possible about your issue to help us assist you more effectively.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is released under the GPL v2 license to comply with WordPress plugin guidelines. However, the author kindly requests that users refrain from selling or commercially distributing this plugin. While you are free to use, modify, and distribute the plugin for non-commercial purposes, please respect the author’s wish to keep this as a free resource for the community.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Butterfly88</p>


Simple BuddyPress Signup Avatar

Enhances BuddyPress registration by allowing users to upload avatars during sign-up.

Marcus (aka @msykes)

Marcus

Pixelite

<p>This is a very simple and lightweight plugin that anonymizes default avatars and prevents the user’s gravatar being automatically obtained from gravatar.com based on their registered email. This would be useful for sites where users require an extra layer of privacy, or if you just want to prevent potentially silly or embarrasing avatar accidents.</p>
<p>If you’re using Identicons or any other generated default avatar, the user should keep a consistent avatar unless they change their registered email.</p>
<p>You can also disable Gravatar completely and choose a default image to display.</p>
<p>This plugin is also compatible with other avatar customization plugins such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/" rel="ugc">Avatar Manager</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a> or <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-new-default-avatar/" rel="ugc">Add New Default Avatar</a>, since this plugin specifically prevents the gravatar of a specific user email being used and reverts to the default or user-defined avatar.</p>
<p><strong>Important 3.0 Update – BuddyPress users should visit the Settings > Discussion page on your dashboard and choose one of the Disable Gravatar options to restore previous behavior.</strong></p>
<p>If you have any issues or suggestions, please visit our <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-user-gravatar" rel="ugc">support forums</a>.</p>
<p>If you find this plugin useful and would like to say thanks, please leave us a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/disable-user-gravatar?filter=5" rel="ugc">5 star review</a>!</p>


Disable User Gravatar

The plugin is a must-have for each WordPress installation. One can't process the email of the user (personal information) to create a hash and sent it to a remote server without consent of the user.

Must-have

Stops WordPress from grabbing a user avatar using their registrated email from gravatar.com.

Simple BuddyPress Signup Avatar vs Disable User Gravatar