Default Avatar instead of real avatar on Author.php pages

Resolved jimario
(@jimario)

10 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

After installing your plugin, I uploaded photo for my Avatar while editing my profile. That worked fine, the photo shows up correctly. I then placed your template code on my author.php template file. But when visiting the author page, only the default avatar shows up. This is the code I am using that I found from other posts in your forum:

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[avatar user=”‘.get_the_author_meta(‘ID’).'”]’); ?>

<?php echo get_wp_user_avatar(get_the_author_meta(‘ID’), 96); ?>

Neither one of these works. Please help.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatar/

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Thread Starter jimario
(@jimario)

10 years, 1 month ago

Ok, I just realized something. Avatars with photos will show up when the url is something like this: http://www.site.com/author/m However, the default avatar will show up on urls like this http://www.site.com/?author=10 which happens to be the same profile page as site.com/author/m

So it seems that WP User Avatar works on pretty permalinks rather than the regular ones. Is there a way to get it to work on regular permalinks?
Bangbay Siboliban
(@bangbay)

10 years, 1 month ago
On an author page you should use this:
```
<?php
  $user = get_user_by('slug', $author_name);
  echo get_wp_user_avatar($user->ID, 96);
?>
```
For reference, you could also check out the installation page in addition to forum posts.
Thread Starter jimario
(@jimario)

10 years, 1 month ago

Thanks. I just noticed your response. I went ahead and tried your code but I’m still getting the same result.

http://choochooclan.com/surrogate/?author=10
vs
http://choochooclan.com/surrogate/author/m/
Bangbay Siboliban
(@bangbay)

10 years, 1 month ago
I’m not sure why you would want to use the http://choochooclan.com/surrogate/?author=10 format, but if you want to cover your bases you can use this:
```
<?php
  $user = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author));
  echo get_wp_user_avatar($user->ID, 96);
?>
```
Thread Starter jimario
(@jimario)

10 years, 1 month ago

well, i don’t want to do that but I’m using another plugin which lists users and allows me to link back to the author page. However, I can’t control how it links back and unfortunately it’s using the WP link method.

The code you just posted worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

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