Simple Local Avatars
Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles if the current user has media permissions. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar! Simple and lightweight. Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new “Avatar” field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing! Stores avatars in the “uploads” folder where all of your other media is kept. Has a simple, native interface. Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user – but also allows you turn off Gravatar. Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar! Lets you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar. Enables rating of local avatars, just like Gravatar. Support Level Simple Local Avatars’ support level is marked as stable. 10up is not planning to develop any new features for this, but will still respond to bug reports and security concerns. We welcome PRs, but any that include new features should be small and easy to integrate and should not include breaking changes. We otherwise intend to keep this tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.
WP Social Avatar
As the name suggests, this plugin allows you to use the social profile picture as your WordPress Avatar. You can see more, on how to install and use the plugin here in this blog WP Social Avatar Why this plugin? If you are me, who gets bore of using the same gravatar for few days or months then this plugin is totally for you. This plugin provides option to the user to use Social media like Facebook and Google plus profile pictures as the gravatar instead of the one from en.gravatar.com. WP Social Avatar Settings: After activating the plugin admin will see WP Avatar, under Users menu. Here the admin can set the minimum role/capabilities required to avail this feature. The allowed users will see the available options in their Your Profile sub menu under Users menu. For the first version I only have two social options available, Facebook and Google plus. You need to add either the Facebook user ID(numeric) or Google plus id in the corresponding fields. You can find your facebook user id here Once done with the above, check the social profile picture you want to use as the gravatar and click Update Profile and you are done. After saving the profile you can see all the gravatars in the site has been replaced by the respective social media profile picture. With this you will get rid of the boredom of looking at the same gravatar all the time. With the change in the respective social media profile picture, the gravatar of your site will also change. With Version 1.4 Cache functionality is implemented for Google Plus avatar, this optimizes the functionality. I have added a clear cache button for Google plus, anytime you upload a new profile picture in your Google Plus account click the “clear cache” button and you will get the latest image else the code will make a request and pull the latest image after every 48 hours. This has been done to make the Google Plus functionality faster.
