As of April 2026, Avatar Tooltip is a WordPress avatar plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles….
1/51 reviews
10active installs
3.2K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
You can enable a tooltip that shows info about user/author when you rollover/click on related avatar.
Let’s speak clearly: if you are loooking for a plugin that enables the standard Gravatar hovercards, this is not the plugin right for you. Please look for another one.
When you rollover/click on an avatar (e.g. of a comment author), a tooltip popups and shows:
- some additional links if the author is a registered user: e.g. to user post archive, to user external website, to user blog (if multisite)
- some info from Gravatar if author is registered to that service: e.g. location, “about me” description, websites, other account pages (facebook, twitter….)
In plugin settings you can set up the javascript and css main options.
The plugin comes with some filter hooks, so…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.2
- Updated: for a better integration with other plugins the get_avatar filter priority was increased to be sure that the [rel] attribute is added after other filters
Contributors
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