Avatar Manager

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1. ★★★★★ Dennis Bareis

   2.7y ago

   First off great that this plugin works, doesn’t cause download of huge images to display as small avatars and seems to work well 🙂 I like that it supports gravatar as a default. I’m not sure it is still supported but if it is, it needs to have at least meta data updated so everything doesn’t point to moved pages and needs to be marked as tested in release 6.4.2 or so… This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Dennis Bareis. This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Dennis Bareis.

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2. ★★★★★ Marjoline

   5.0y ago

   Much appreciated Avatar Manager… until after a recent update, it caused a strange effect in our User Submitted Posts. (USP Pro) What happened was, logged in users were no longer able to submit the posts. Only NON-logged in users could submit posts, which is of course just the opposite to what we want. Thanks Avatar Manager, sorry to leave you; it was great whilst it lasted! Cheers, Marjoline

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3. ★★★★★ fiftin

   5.1y ago

   Very useful plugin, thank you!

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4. ★★★★★ newsblaze

   5.2y ago

   This is an excellent plugin. I use it on all of my sites that have posts that show the author. It is magic! Thank you to all who contributed. P.S. I love the octopus logo.

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5. ★★★★★ rockethead2

   6.6y ago

   We are able to add avatar in user edit screen, but there are no options on Settings > Discussion page so you might want to fix that. Def nice to have option of not using Gravatar, which no longer works.

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6. ★★★★★ wndrlstuser

   7.4y ago

   Thanks for this plugin. Very helpful!

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7. ★★★★★ Luke Skybroker

   7.9y ago

   Praise to this plugin developer! This does everything as described and does it with elegant simplicity and delivers perfect execution. It works flawlessly on both desktop and mobile devices/browsers. PLUS and this is a BIG PLUS – it intuitively knows what level user it is so that subscribers can only upload from their device and NOT the media library, while admin can do either. Thank you Cătălin Dogaru for achieving excellence! This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Luke Skybroker.

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8. ★★★★★ Ben

   8.1y ago

   I just downloaded this plugin, and in just a couple of minutes was able to add images from my media library to the gravatar images in all things related to users. Thank you developers for such a useful tool.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.6.1 Updated minified files. Grunt tasks. Mexican Spanish localization. Minor bug fixes. 1.6.1
2. — Version 1.6.0 Media Library support. Action and filter hooks. Brazilian Portuguese localization. French localization. Major bug fixes. 1.6.0
3. — Version 1.5.1 Minified script files. Minor bug fixes. 1.5.1
4. — Version 1.5.0 Multisite support. Dutch localization. Afrikaans localization. 1.5.0
5. — Version 1.4.0 Front-end support. Russian localization. Minor bug fixes. 1.4.0
6. — Version 1.3.0 XML-RPC support. Minor bug fixes. 1.3.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 67 languages, 11 at 90% or more

Plus 43 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-29 6K+ → 5K+ down after 296 days in tier
2. 2025-07-07 7K+ → 6K+ down after 220 days in tier
3. 2024-11-29 8K+ → 7K+ down after 195 days in tier
4. 2024-05-18 9K+ → 8K+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-05-16 8K+ → 9K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-05-15 9K+ → 8K+ down after 178 days in tier
7. 2023-11-19 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Simple Local Avatars 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• One User Avatar | User Profile Picture 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• Basic User Avatars 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags C
• User Profile Picture 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• JSM Show User Metadata 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Easy Author Avatar Image 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A

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Avatar Manager: 5K+ active installs, 4.9★ (39 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/avatar-manager