Avatars

Want to give your users the ability to upload their own avatars but don’t want to use BuddyPress?

With this plugins, your users can upload both a ‘user avatar’ and a ‘blog avatar’ which displays on any comments they leave across your network and in blog and user listings on your network.

Packed full of features such as:

Ability to simply upload and crop avatars within dashboard.
Fully integrated with other WPMU DEV plugins including Friends, Global Site Search, Global Site Tags, Blogs Directory, Members Directory, Recent Global Comments Widget, Recent Global Posts Widget — their uploaded ‘user avatar’ and a ‘blog avatar’ automatically display when these plugins are used!
Complete integraion of the comment avatar code in every WPMU DEV theme– their uploaded ‘user avatar’ appears next to their comments with these themes!

Check it out!

Simply install and activate the plugin for your users to upload both a ‘user avatar’ and a ‘blog avatar’!

Just go to Users > Your Profile to upload your ‘user avatar’.

Uploading your users avatar

And go to Settings > Blog Avatar to upload your ‘blog avatar’.

Uploading your blog avatar

Here’s an example of user avatars displayed on one of our WPMU DEV themes!

User avatars displaying on comments

Neato! Heh!

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

Download the plugin file
Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Upload /Avatars/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

That’s it! No configuration necessary!
This plugin isn’t designed to be used with BuddyPress since it has its own inbuilt avatar system

Using with bbPress

Optionally you can network activate the Avatars (BBPress) plugin if you are using bbpress along with your WordPress install.
If you have an integrated bbPress install, you can install this optional plugin to allow custom avatars in your bbPress template. This plugin will only work if your bbPress install is integrated to use the WordPress user table.

To Use:

Uploading your user avatar:

1. Go to Users > Your Profile

3. Browse to locate your Avatar and then click Upload.

4. Drag the select the area of your Avatar you want to include and then click Crop.

Uploading your blog avatar:

1. Go to Setting > Blog Avatar

2. Browse to locate your Avatar and then click Upload.

3. Drag the select the area of your Avatar you want to include and then click Crop.

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