Avatar Manager
Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.
4.9(39 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Avatar Manager is a WordPress users plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 114K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: User Switching.
4.9/539 reviews
6.0K+active installs
114K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily.
Enhance your WordPress website by letting your users choose between using Gravatar or a self-hosted avatar image right from their profile screen. Improved workflow, on-demand image generation and custom user permissions under a native interface. Say hello to the Avatar Manager plugin.
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Recent Reviews
Works in WP 6.4.2, Not sure is Still Supported
by Dennis Bareis·2 years 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, 3 months ago by Dennis Bareis.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Dennis Bareis.
So sad, I had to deactivate Avatar Manager
by Marjoline·4 years ago·6 replies
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
Very useful plugin, thank you!
by fiftin·4 years ago
Very useful plugin, thank you!
Excellent plugin
by newsblaze·4 years 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.
Not all features work.
by rockethead2·6 years ago·2 replies
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.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 9This week: 37Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
99.1%
v1.5
0.9%
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Changelog
1.6.1
- Updated minified files.
- Grunt tasks.
- Mexican Spanish localization.
- Minor bug fixes.
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