Author Avatars – Plugin required?

  • Resolved Zaggeh

    (@zaggeh)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I know this question gets asked a LOT (I’ve done a ton of searching), but how do I change my avatar on pages like http://clylla.com/author/zaggeh/ ?

    The reason why I’m asking this even though it’s asked and answered so many times is every single answer I’ve read involves getting some sort of plugin, and I’m really confused about it. Aren’t author avatars a native feature of WordPress? I thought I’d just be able to go to wp-admin/profile.php and edit it there without needing to use some sort of third party tool, but I don’t see the options.

    I kind of feel like I’m missing something and I’m totally overwhelmed when I search for avatar plugins, there are 306 of them and I totally don’t know which one is the “correct” one. I love the plugin community and really think this kind of system is great, but it’s just overwhelming and there’s so many different versions of things that perform the same function.

    I have 3 contributors on my blog and I’d like the ability for us each to have a separate avatar on our author pages. I’m not really too concerned with commenter avatars or anything like that.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    2 options
    sign up at gravatar.com and upload an image
    then it will show up on the blog
    or – as you guessed – a plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-local-avatar/

    Thread Starter Zaggeh

    (@zaggeh)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I was confused by the whole gravatar thing. I thought I needed a plugin to get it to work, which really confused me.

    But I did it just like you said, all I had to do was sign up, associate the same email address I use for my blog’s account with my gravatar account, and that was all.

    Really simple and not confusing at all. Not having to sort through 306 different avatar plugins really helped. 🙂 Thanks.

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