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.

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Jeffrey Paul

Oomph, Inc.

Jake Goldman

Faisal Alvi

<p>Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles if the current user has media permissions. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar! Simple and lightweight.</p>
<p>Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new “Avatar” field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing!</p>
<ol>
<li>Stores avatars in the “uploads” folder where all of your other media is kept.</li>
<li>Has a simple, native interface.</li>
<li>Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user – but also allows you turn off Gravatar.</li>
<li>Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar!</li>
<li>Lets you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar.</li>
<li>Enables rating of local avatars, just like Gravatar.</li>
</ol>


Simple Local Avatars

I've 100+ writers on a news website. It's was so hard for to everybody create an account in Gravatar. This plugin helps me a lot to upload writer photos from the dashboard.

Hats of the plugin author.

Great plugin

Great Plugin Great Support


The support of the WordPress REST API is a lifesaver for me. Simple Local Avatars is the only avatar plugin I know of that supports the REST API.I used it in my React with WordPress Tutorial. Without it, the whole Tutorial wouldn't have worked.


Does what it says and supports REST API


I like that it allows gravatar to continue to be used. If you set the local only option however all your existing avatars will be reset to the same avatar.  People get used to their own avatars and these shouldn't change, they should be copied locally from gravatar when the option is set if local copies don't already exist.  Croping also fails.  Looks like I need to look for another plugin as this is no longer under development.


Good but with "Features"


This plugin does well in extending WordPress' Avatar capabilities.


Nice Plugin

Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar!

Simple BuddyPress Signup Avatar vs Simple Local Avatars