As of April 2026, BP Local Avatars is a WordPress groups plugin with 100 active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Top alternative: Groups.
4.1/57 reviews
100active installs
10K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
BP Local Avatars is a BuddyPress plugin.
Do you have members or groups on your BuddyPress site who do not have an Avatar?
And you do not want to show the generic default avatar?
Or maybe you do not want each page view to include a lot of calls to gravatar.com to load avatars?
- This plugin will create a Gravatar Identicon avatar, thumb and full versions, for any user who does not already have an Avatar, and save it locally.
- Supports user creation, user registration, user login, and Bulk Generation for user and groups.
- Uses the existing BuddyPress avatar directory structure.
- Conforms to the defined sizes for BuddyPress thumb and full avatars.
- Users can still upload an avatar via their profile.
- Groups can still upload an avatar via Group > Manage > Photo.
Usage:
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
3.0
Tested with WP 5.4
Now generates avatars if a dir exists but is empty
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