Avatar Privacy vs One User Avatar | User Profile Picture

Avatars from Gravatar.com are great, but they come with certain privacy implications. You as site admin may already know this, but your visitors and users probably don’t. Avatar Privacy can help to improve the privacy situation by making some subtle changes to the way avatars are displayed on your site. The plugin works without changing your theme files (for reasonably modern themes), and it does support multisite installations. Please note that the plugin does not provide an options page of its own, it rather adds to the existing discussion settings page. Features The plugin’s features summed up: Self-uploaded avatars for users (and custom default images), hosted on your server. Users and commenters explicitly opt-in before using gravatars. Gravatar caching to ensure the privacy of your website visitors. Don’t publish weakly encrypted e-mail addresses of comment authors. A more detailed examination of the reasons for using Avatar Privacy can be found on the plugin homepage. WP-CLI Commands Avatar Privacy includes the following WP-CLI commands: wp avatar-privacy db show: Show information about the custom database table(s). wp avatar-privacy db list: List entries in the custom database table(s). wp avatar-privacy db create: Create the custom database table. wp avatar-privacy db upgrade: Upgrade the structure of the custom database table. wp avatar-privacy default get-custom-default-avatar: Show information about the custom default avatar for the site. wp avatar-privacy default set-custom-default-avatar: Set a custom default avatar for the site. wp avatar-privacy default delete-custom-default-avatar: Delete the custom default avatar for the site. wp avatar-privacy cron list: List active cron jobs created by the plugin. wp avatar-privacy cron delete: Delete cron jobs created by the plugin. wp avatar-privacy user set-local-avatar: Set a local avatar image for a user. wp avatar-privacy user delete-local-avatar: Delete the local avatar image for a user. wp avatar-privacy uninstall: Remove data added by Avatar Privacy. Feedback Please report any problems with the plugin, I’ll do my best to sort things out. You can use the contact form on my code site or create a topic in the support forum. You can contact me in German or English. Credits Avatar Privacy is based on the original plugin by Johannes Freudendahl. The new release also includes work by several other people: Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi (Jdenticon), Shamus Young (Wavatars), Andreas Gohr (the original MonsterID and RingIcon), Scott Sherrill-Mix & Katherine Garner (the hand-drawn monster update) Benjamin Laugueux, Grummfy, Lucas Michot & Arjen van der Meijden (Identicon), David Revoy (Bird and Cat Avatars), Zikri Kader, Colin Davis & Nimiq (RoboHash), and Johanna Amann (the Avatar Privacy icon).

WordPress currently only allows you to use custom avatars that are uploaded through Gravatar. One User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary. This plugin is a fork of WP User Avatar v2.2.16. One User Avatar also lets you: Upload your own Default Avatar in your One User Avatar settings. Show the user’s Gravatar avatar or Default Avatar if the user doesn’t have a One User Avatar image. Disable Gravatar avatars and use only local avatars. Use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to a front page or widget. This uploader is only visible to logged-in users. Use the [avatar] shortcode in your posts. These shortcodes will work with any theme, whether it has avatar support or not. Allow Contributors and Subscribers to upload their own avatars. Limit upload file size and image dimensions for Contributors and Subscribers. Copyright One User Avatar Copyright (c) 2023 One Designs https://onedesigns.com/ License: GPLv2 Source: https://github.com/onedesigns/one-user-avatar One User Avatar is based on WP User Avatar v2.2.16 Copyright (c) 2020-2021 ProfilePress https://profilepress.net/ Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Flippercode https://www.flippercode.com/ Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Bangbay Siboliban http://bangbay.com/ License: GPLv2 Source: https://github.com/profilepress/wp-user-avatar One User Avatar is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Advanced Settings Add One User Avatar to your own profile edit page You can use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to any page. It’s best to use this uploader by itself and without other profile fields. If you’re building your own profile edit page with other fields, One User Avatar is automatically added to the show_user_profile and edit_user_profile hooks. If you’d rather have One User Avatar in its own section, you could add another hook: do_action( 'edit_user_avatar', $current_user ); Then, to add One User Avatar to that hook and remove it from the other hooks outside of the administration panel, you would add this code to the functions.php file of your theme: function my_avatar_filter() { // Remove from show_user_profile hook remove_action( 'show_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); remove_action( 'show_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); // Remove from edit_user_profile hook remove_action( 'edit_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); remove_action( 'edit_user_profile', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); // Add to edit_user_avatar hook add_action( 'edit_user_avatar', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile' ) ); add_action( 'edit_user_avatar', array( 'wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts' ) ); } // Loads only outside of administration panel if ( ! is_admin() ) { add_action( 'init','my_avatar_filter' ); } HTML Wrapper You can change the HTML wrapper of the One User Avatar section by using the functions wpua_before_avatar and wpua_after_avatar. By default, the avatar code is structured like this: Avatar Edit Image Original Size Thumbnail Default Avatar Undo To strip out the div container and h3 heading, you would add the following filters to the functions.php file in your theme: remove_action( 'wpua_before_avatar', 'wpua_do_before_avatar' ); remove_action( 'wpua_after_avatar', 'wpua_do_after_avatar' ); To add your own wrapper, you could create something like this: function my_before_avatar() { echo ' '; } add_action( 'wpua_before_avatar', 'my_before_avatar' ); function my_after_avatar() { echo ' '; } add_action( 'wpua_after_avatar', 'my_after_avatar' ); This would output: Edit Image Original Size Thumbnail Default Avatar Undo