Leira Letter Avatar vs Advanced User Avatar | Custom Profile Picture Uploader for WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress

Leira Letter Avatar allows you to automatically generate user avatars using the initial letters of their first and last names. The plugin is fully customizable from the admin area. You can configure avatar settings such as shape, background color, font color, and image format (.svg, .png, .jpg). Compatibility Leira Letter Avatar works with any properly coded WordPress theme. Some plugins may conflict; if you encounter issues, please report them in the community forum. Known compatible plugins: BuddyPress Ultimate Member wpDiscuz BuddyPress Profile Completion YITH WooCommerce Advanced Reviews Flyzoo Chat BuddyBoss Contributors Special thanks to: Jose Luis Chavez – Icons, banners, and design ivankuraev – Support for Russian characters Development You can contribute to the plugin development on GitHub.

Your WooCommerce customers are faceless. Reviews come from anonymous silhouettes, the My Account dashboard greets returning shoppers with a generic placeholder, and every account in your store feels like a transaction instead of a person. Faceless reviews are trusted less, and anonymous accounts give your customers no reason to feel connected to your brand. Advanced User Avatar gives every WooCommerce customer a real profile photo, uploaded from their device in seconds. The avatar appears in the WooCommerce My Account dashboard and on the Account Details page automatically. For BuddyPress communities, it replaces the default avatar uploader with a faster, friendlier flow. For any other WordPress site, drop the avatar uploader anywhere using a shortcode or the Gutenberg block. Features WooCommerce integration My Account Dashboard avatar — customer’s profile photo displays on the dashboard the moment they log in Account Details upload field — customers update their photo from the same page they manage their account Page builder compatible — works alongside Bricks Builder and other builders without duplicate template rendering Product review avatars — coming in version 2, so reviewers show as real people on product pages BuddyPress integration Replaces the default BuddyPress avatar uploader with the same upload, crop, and webcam flow used across your site Displays on member profile pages and the member directory so communities feel populated by people, not placeholders Better Messages integration Custom avatars appear in the Better Messages chat interface automatically, replacing the default Gravatar with the user’s uploaded photo Upload experience Crop interface — customers position and size their photo before saving Webcam capture — take a photo directly in the browser, no file needed EXIF orientation handling — phone photos stay upright after cropping File type validation — admin chooses which of JPG, PNG, and GIF are allowed Max file size control — set the upload ceiling from settings Auto-generated image sizes — multiple thumbnails created on upload for fast display everywhere Placement options for developers and site builders Shortcode: [wpmake_advance_user_avatar_upload] renders the full upload form on any page Shortcode: [wpmake_advance_user_avatar] outputs the current user’s avatar Gutenberg block for drag-and-drop placement in the block editor No Gravatar, no external data sharing Gravatar sends a hash of every visitor’s email address to an external server to fetch their photo. For EU stores and any site under GDPR scope, that third-party request is a compliance question your legal team would rather not answer. Advanced User Avatar stores every photo on your own server. No outbound requests, no hashed emails leaving your site, no third-party dependency. Install the plugin and give your customers a face on your store.