Title: Author Avatars – Plugin required?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author Avatars – Plugin required?

 *  Resolved [Zaggeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaggeh/)
 * (@zaggeh)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-avatars-plugin-required/)
 * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-avatars-plugin-required/#post-1974146)
 * 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/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-local-avatar/)
 *  Thread Starter [Zaggeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaggeh/)
 * (@zaggeh)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-avatars-plugin-required/#post-1974148)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Zaggeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaggeh/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-avatars-plugin-required/#post-1974148)
 * Status: resolved

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