WP First Letter Avatar

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1. ★★★★★ monolitstudio

   2.0y ago

   I tried to use this feature but only the standard avatars from wordpress were displayed

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2. ★★★★★ Domingo Piñeiro

   6.2y ago

   The plugin didn’t work on my site.

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3. ★★★★★ gpowerhost

   8.3y ago

   If you set the “Use Gravatar” to “unchecked” it does not send all of that data to WordPress. We like the ability that we can craft our own Avatar sets and control the exact style of the images.

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4. ★★★★★ zepolo

   8.5y ago

   It was last updated 1 year 11 months ago and tested up to WordPress 4.7.12. It may have compatibility problems with the current version of WordPress or unknown security issues. It works nice. installation is very very easy ! Fast as Light plugin, very usefull.Lot of visitors doesn’t know how work custom gravatars Plugin bring more colors into our blogs thank you for this work This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by zepolo.

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5. ★★★★★ mrkenobi

   8.6y ago

   Plugin works as described. Works great on any properly configured wp installation on php7.1x. Looks like a future-proof plugin. Something like this should be integrated to the core. Great work guys

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6. ★★★★★ Sandra

   8.8y ago

   This plugin works perfectly for getting rid of gravatar http requests. I deactivated the gravatar check and now I have nice letters and my users won’t be tracked 🙂 It works nice together with WP User Avatar, so I can have my own picture for comment responses. Thank you very much !

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7. ★★★★★ RickMarx

   9.4y ago

   These developers deliver on what they promise the plugin would do. The installation is just crazy easy and flawless. No issues with anything about this plugin. OUTSTANDING Developers.

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8. ★★★★★ revixi5

   9.5y ago

   For a standard use, no other plugins messing with avatars, it works perfectly. I even made my own set of images that fit with my theme and replace manually the “default” folder.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.2.8 Added 2 new avatar sets (opensans and roboto) – thanks flector! 2.2.8
2. — Version 2.2.7 Added option to pass additional arguments to get_avatar() – thanks dpsjorge! (for developers only) 2.2.7
3. — Version 2.2.6.1 Fixed get_currentuserinfo() function deprecated notice 2.2.6.1
4. — Version 2.2.6 Fixed undeclared variable notice Fixed mbstring extension error 2.2.6
5. — Version 2.2.5 Added Polish translation Fixed problem with bbPress avatars 2.2.5
6. — Version 2.2.4 Added fallback for Polish letters (thanks Micha�!) Plugin prepared for translations (contributors are welcome!) 2.2.4

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

Translated into 125 languages, 2 at 90% or more · development strings

Plus 101 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-10-12 3K+ → 2K+ down after 657 days in tier
2. 2023-12-25 4K+ → 3K+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2023-12-22 3K+ → 4K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-12-21 4K+ → 3K+ 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).

• BuddyPress First Letter Avatar 100+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags D
• No Page Comment 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Disable Comments 9K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
• Decent Comments 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
• Comment Notifier 400+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• P Post Comments as bbPress Topics 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP First Letter Avatar: 2K+ active installs, 4.7★ (33 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-first-letter-avatar