Profile Picture field
A Profile Picture field on the user’s profile and on Users › Add New, with a Remove button to go back to the Gravatar.
Case study · WordPress plugin
User Profile Picture: custom local avatars for WordPress
A WordPress plugin I built in 2019 and still maintain: it gives any user a profile picture from the Media Library instead of a Gravatar. 4,000+ active installs, rated 5/5 on WordPress.org.
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Many sites want profile pictures without asking every user to sign up for Gravatar. With User Profile Picture, a picture is chosen on the user’s profile screen with the standard WordPress media uploader, and it then appears wherever WordPress shows that user’s avatar. In the 2026 releases I made it work with code that asks for the avatar URL (the REST API, page builders and GraphQL), kept the Avatar block’s styling, added a Remove button and tightened security.
Key features
Pick once, shown everywhere.
Version 1.0.10, tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 (requires WordPress 4.5 and PHP 7.4). No settings page; works with block themes, classic themes and multisite.
Native media uploader
Pictures are uploaded or chosen with WordPress’s own media uploader and served from your site, so users don’t need a Gravatar account.
Shown everywhere
Comments, author boxes, the toolbar, the Users screen, the Avatar block, the REST API and any code that calls get_avatar() or get_avatar_url().
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