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This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

author_avatar

By Guillaume
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Description

Add an upload field in the user profile admin – Don’t want to use gravatar profile picture, or just don’t have one, just download this plugin. It will add a custom field in the user admin with the possibility to upload your own. Once uploaded, it will add the picture url inside the usermeta table so you can easily display it with get_the_author_meta .

Translation ready and already available in French.

  • Easy to use, once activated and your picture uploaded, grab the source url with:

Just add an image tag where you want the picture to be displayed like so:

 <img src="<?php echo $user_meta_image;?>" alt="My Custom user Profile Picture"> 

Et voilĂ !

Installation

  1. Upload “ to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
  3. grab the source url with $user_meta_image = esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'user_meta_image', get_the_id() ) );. Just add an image tag where you want the picture to be displayed like so: <img src="<?php echo $user_meta_image;?>" alt="My Custom user Profile Picture">
  4. Style as you wish.

FAQ

What about if i want to use a user profile picture outside of it’s author page?

It’s pretty easy, just change the last parameter “get_the_id()” wjth the id of the user you want to show, as follow:
$user_meta_image = esc_attr(get_the_author_meta(‘user_meta_image’, 1));

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“author_avatar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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1.0

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  • Version 1.0.2
  • Last updated 11 years ago
  • Active installations 30+
  • WordPress version 3.5.1 or higher
  • Tested up to 3.8.41
  • Language
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    author avatargravatarprofile pictureuser profile
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