Interacting with registered users who are often new to WordPress has opened my eyes to how bad of an experience configuring an avatar is. The site I administer is the first I’ve managed in my WordPress career that has open registration. All three plugins combined are active on nearly 300K sites. Some have even suggested that Simple Local Avatars, WP User Avatar or Add Local Avatar could be merged into core to provide the functionality. There has recently been some discussion on a six-year-old trac ticket requesting upload functionality for custom avatars. It’s worth noting that according to the plugin’s FAQ, it doesn’t work well with multisite. I tested the plugin on WordPress 4.7.3 and didn’t encounter any issues. Alternatively, users can click the Choose from Media button to choose an image from the Media Library. WP User Avatars is part of the Stutter collection of plugins that replaces Gravatar and adds the ability for registered users to upload an image from their machine. One way to replace Gravatar is with the WP User Avatars plugin developed by John James Jacoby.
Many of the people requesting support simply want an Upload button or link that enables them to upload an image and use it as their avatar. In the past, I’ve written how managing Gravatars in WordPress is a bad user experience and not much has changed. The longer I maintain the site, the more frustrated I get that Gravatar is the default way users create and manage their profile image. It replaced the old method of uploading a profile picture in WordPress 2.5 “Brecker”.
WordPress’ profile image system is powered by Gravatar, an Automattic owned service.
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I maintain a website with active user registration and a common support question I’m asked is, “How do I change my profile picture?” The answer is not easy as it should be.
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