Description
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.
Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new Avatar” field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing!
- Stores avatars in the uploads” folder where all of your other media is kept.
- Has a simple, native interface.
- Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user – but also allows you turn off Gravatar.
- Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar!
- Lets you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar.
- Enables rating of local avatars, just like Gravatar.
Screenshots
Avatar upload field on a user profile page
Installation
- Install easily with the WordPress plugin control panel or manually download the plugin and upload the extracted folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- If you only want users with file upload capabilities to upload avatars, check the applicable option under Settings > Discussion
- Start uploading avatars by editing user profiles!
Use avatars in your theme using WordPress’ built in get_avatar() function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_avatar
You can also use get_simple_local_avatar() (with the same arguments) to retrieve local avatars a bit faster, but this will make your theme dependent on this plug-in.
FAQ
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Does Simple Local Avatars collect personal data of website visitors?
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No. Simple Local Avatars neither collects, stores, nor sends any PII data of visitors or avatar users on the host site or to 10up or other services.
Reviews
Сентябрь 9, 2024
1 reply
No issues here. Works fine, just make sure to have Avatars on in the Setting > Discussion.
Август 31, 2024
1 reply
Works great!
Август 20, 2024
Edit: Seeing again after disabling and enabling the plugin.
The field to upload local avatar in user profile is now showing up. On the front end I see the old photo I uploaded, but not on the back end. No way to change it.
Август 2, 2024
1 reply
works fine for me, thank you dev team
Июль 7, 2024
1 reply
I just realized that the avatars are looking good on the front end webpage, although not in the back end, like in the upper right side of the page after login or in the wordpress/users/username/avatar settings, image looks url broken. I hope you can understand what I’m trying to say, and hopefully check on that, other than that great plugin!
Июль 1, 2024
1 reply
This plugin sounded like just what I wanted: a simple solution for a minimalist blog site. Unfortunately, it just plain didn’t work. No avatar ever appeared anywhere, although it did upload images to my Media Library. I tried for support through WordPress.org and got what looked like a quick, comprehensive response, which asked a few more questions and didn’t actually help me otherwise. I answered the questions over a week ago. Now I’m joining others who didn’t actually get support and complained about it not working. This plugin is a good idea and may have once worked, but from my perspective all it did was burn my time and patience and ultimately fail me. Definitely not recommended.
Contributors & Developers
“Simple Local Avatars” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.7.11 – 2024-07-18
Note that this release bumps the minimum required version of WordPress from 6.3 to 6.4.
- Changed: Bumped WordPress tested up to” version 6.6 and minimum version to 6.4 (props @sudip-md, @ankitguptaindia, @jeffpaul via #289, #290).
- Security: Add nonce check when saving the default avatar ID (props @faisal-alvi, @aaemnnosttv, @rafiem, @dkotter via GHSA-46pw-6m35-9m7x).
- Security: Bump
bracesfrom 3.0.2 to 3.0.3,pac-resolverfrom 7.0.0 to 7.0.1,socksfrom 2.7.1 to 2.8.3 and removesip(props @dependabot, @Sidsector9 via #286). - Security: Bump
wsfrom 7.5.9 to 7.5.10 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #287).
2.7.10 – 2024-05-24
- Fixed: Fix Default Avatar Fallback (props @amirhossein7, @faisal-alvi, @dkotter, @qasumitbagthariya via #281).
- Security: Bump
expressfrom 4.18.2 to 4.19.2 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #269). - Security: Bump
follow-redirectsfrom 1.15.5 to 1.15.6 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #269). - Security: Bump
ipfrom 1.1.8 to 1.1.9 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #269). - Security: Bump
webpack-dev-middlewarefrom 5.3.3 to 5.3.4 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #269).
2.7.9 – 2024-05-14
- Fixed: Ensure default Gravatar avatars are shown correctly (props @faisal-alvi, @dkotter, @horrormoviesgr, @inpeaks, @lillylark, @rafaucau, @janrenn via #278).
2.7.8 – 2024-05-08
Note that this release bumps the minimum required version of WordPress from 5.7 to 6.3.
- Added: Testing” section in the
CONTRIBUTING.mdfile (props @kmgalanakis, @jeffpaul via #274). - Changed: Bumped WordPress tested up to” version 6.5 (props @sudip-md, @dkotter, @jeffpaul via #270).
- Changed: Move
simple_local_avatar_deletedaction toavatar_delete(props @lllopo, @faisal-alvi, @dkotter via #255). - Changed: Clean up NPM dependencies and update node to
v20(props @Sidsector9, @dkotter via #257). - Changed: Update
CODEOWNERSof the plugin (props @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #253). - Changed: Disabled auto sync pull requests with target branch (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul via #263).
- Changed: Upgrade
download-artifactfrom v3 to v4 (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul via #265). - Changed: Replaced
lee-dohm/no-responsewithactions/staleto help with closingno-response/staleissues (props @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #266). - Fixed: Broken default avatar when
Local Avatars Onlyis unchecked (props @faisal-alvi, @ankitguptaindia, @qasumitbagthariya via #260). - Fixed: Ensure high-quality avatar preview on profile edit screen (props @ocean90, @dkotter via #273).
- Fixed: Possible PHP warning (props @BhargavBhandari90, @dkotter via #261).
- Fixed: Fixed typos (props @szepeviktor, @dkotter via #268).
2.7.7 – 2023-12-13
- Fixed: Revert the Host/Domain support for local avatar URL (props @faisal-alvi, @jakejackson1, @leogermani, @dkotter via #247).
- Security: Bump
axiosfrom 0.25.0 to 1.6.2 and@wordpress/scriptsfrom 23.7.2 to 26.18.0 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #250).
2.7.6 – 2023-11-30
- Added: Check for minimum required PHP version before loading the plugin (props @kmgalanakis, @faisal-alvi via #226).
- Added:
pre_simple_local_avatar_urlfilter to allow an avatar image to be short-circuited before Simple Local Avatars processes it (props @johnbillion, @peterwilsoncc via #237). - Added: Repo Automator GitHub Action (props @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #228).
- Added: E2E test for checking the front end of avatars (props @Firestorm980, @iamdharmesh via #219).
- Changed: Bumped WordPress tested up to” version 6.4 (props @zamanq, @ankitguptaindia, @faisal-alvi, @qasumitbagthariya via #230, #244).
- Changed: Update the Dependency Review GitHub Action to leverage our org-wide config file to check for GPL-compatible licenses (props @jeffpaul, @faisal-alvi via #215).
- Changed: Documentation updates (props @jeffpaul, @faisal-alvi via #242).
- Fixed: Address conflicts with other plugins and loading the media API (props @EHLOVader, @dkotter via #218).
- Fixed: Prevent PHP fatal error when switching from a multisite to single site installation (props @ocean90, @ravinderk, @faisal-alvi via #222).
- Fixed: Local avatar urls remain old after domain/host change (props @jayedul, @ravinderk, @jeffpaul, @faisal-alvi via #216).
- Security: Bump
word-wrapfrom 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #223). - Security: Bump
tough-cookiefrom 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #225). - Security: Bump
@cypress/requestfrom 2.88.10 to 3.0.0 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #225, #234). - Security: Bump
cypressfrom 11.2.0 to 13.2.0 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi, @iamdharmesh via #234, #236). - Security: Bump
postcssfrom 8.4.21 to 8.4.31 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #238). - Security: Bump
@babel/traversefrom 7.20.12 to 7.23.2 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #240). - Security: Bump
@10up/cypress-wp-utilsversion to 0.2.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #236). - Security: Bump
@wordpress/envversion from 5.2.0 to 8.7.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #236). - Security: Bump
cypress-mochawesome-reporterversion from 3.0.1 to 3.6.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #236).
2.7.5 – 2023-05-15
- Added: Ajax loading animation during process of uploading and deleting local avatars (props @lllopo, @BhargavBhandari90, @faisal-alvi via #204).
- Changed: Avatar removal button text (props @jayedul, @jeffpaul, @dkotter, @faisal-alvi via #208).
- Changed: WordPress tested up to” version 6.2 (props @jayedul, @faisal-alvi via #210).
- Changed: Run E2E tests on the zip generated by Build release zip” action (props @jayedul, @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #205).
- Security: Bump
webpackfrom 5.75.0 to 5.76.1 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #207).
2.7.4 – 2023-02-23
- Fixed: Support passing
WP_Usertoget_avatar()(props @mattheu, @faisal-alvi via #193). - Fixed: Remove trailing commas in function calls (props @patrixer, @dkotter, @sekra24, @faisal-alvi via #196).
- Security: Bump
simple-gitfrom 3.15.1 to 3.16.0 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #191). - Security: Bump
http-cache-semanticsfrom 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #197).
2.7.3 – 2023-01-16
- Fixed: Issue causing fatal errors when avatars used on front end of site (props @Rottinator, @peterwilsoncc, @ravinderk, @faisal-alvi via #187).
- Fixed: Deprecation error in admin on PHP 8.0 and later (props @Rottinator, @peterwilsoncc, @ravinderk, @faisal-alvi via #187).
2.7.2 – 2023-01-13
- Added: Filter hook
simple_local_avatars_upload_limitto restrict image upload size & image file checking enhanced (props @Shirkit, @jayedul, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul via #171). - Added: GitHub Actions summary on Cypress e2e test runs (props @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul, @iamdharmesh via #174).
- Changed: Cypress integration migrated from 9.5.4 to 11.2.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @jayedul, @faisal-alvi via #172).
- Fixed: PHP8 support for
assign_new_user_avatar(props @lllopo, @mattwatsoncodes, @faisal-alvi via #183). - Fixed: Fixed the user profile language not respected issue (props @dkotter, @lllopo, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul via #175).
- Removed: textdomain from the core strings and the function
update_avatar_ratingsas it’s not required anymore (props @dkotter, @lllopo, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul via #175). - Security: Bump
json5from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #182).
2.7.1 – 2022-12-08
- Added: Added missing files from the last release and changed the readme file to fix the bullet points and added fullstops.
2.7.0 – 2022-12-08
- Added: Added
Build release zipGitHub Action (props @peterwilsoncc, @faisal-alvi via #168). - Changed: Set plugin defaults on
wp_initialize_siteinstead of deprecated actionwpmu_new_blog(props @kadamwhite, @faisal-alvi via #156). - Changed: Support Level from Active to Stable (props @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #159).
- Changed: Build tools: Allow PHPCS installer plugin to run without prompting user (props @peterwilsoncc, @jeffpaul via #164).
- Changed: WP tested up to version bump to 6.1 (props @peterwilsoncc, @faisal-alvi via #165).
- Fixed: Non admin users can not crop avatar (props @jayedul, @faisal-alvi, @zamanq, @dkotter, @jeffpaul via #155).
- Security: Bump
@wordpress/envfrom 4.9.0 to 5.2.0 andgotfrom 10.7.0 to 11.8.5 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #153). - Security: Bump
loader-utilsfrom 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #160). - Security: Bump
loader-utilsfrom 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #162). - Security: Bump
simple-gitfrom 3.9.0 to 3.15.1 (props @dependabot via #176).