Title: Alternative Image Location
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Alternative Image Location

 *  [brough](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brough/)
 * (@brough)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/)
 * I’ve searched high and low for an avatar plugin which would allow me to use a
   separate upload directory for the avatar images.
 * I see the question has already been asked here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-location-4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-location-4)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/avatar-manager/)

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 *  [Jared Atchison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaredatch/)
 * (@jaredatch)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/#post-6043103)
 * Thanks. I’ll look into such an option when I have time. It will have to be opt-
   in only though for backwards compatibility.
 * You can follow the issue here [https://github.com/jaredatch/Basic-User-Avatars/issues/2](https://github.com/jaredatch/Basic-User-Avatars/issues/2)
 *  [Beee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beee/)
 * (@beee)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/#post-6043412)
 * brough: either/or add local avatar or simple local avatar does it I think but
   both haven’t been updadated in more than a year…
 * i’ve tried editing core files to achieve this as well, but haven’t been successful
   yet.
 *  [Beee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beee/)
 * (@beee)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/#post-6043413)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-local-avatar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-local-avatar/)
   also does it…. but again not updated in a while… and no front end change (I don’t
   want any users in the back end)…
 * Jared, if I may advise, download these plugins and construct your own custom 
   upload dir based on their functions…
 *  [Beee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beee/)
 * (@beee)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/#post-6043414)
 * ps Jared, why are you replying here ? this isn’t your plugin, is it ?
 *  Plugin Author [Cătălin Dogaru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdog/)
 * (@cdog)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-image-location/#post-6043454)
 * Hi brough,
 * Avatar Manager relies on WordPress to handle file uploads. Changing upload image
   location should be possible through [`upload_dir`](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/upload_dir)
   filter. I’ll look into it for the next release (maintaing backward compatibility
   is also a concern).
 * As mentioned by some unexpected guests some plugins already provide this feature,
   but they are handling file uploads themselves which is a different case.
 * Jared, what’s this?? Please Beee gone :))
 * Best,
    Cătălin

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