Custom Post Avatar gives you the possibility to replace your default avatar by a custom image on each post individually.
As of April 2026, Custom Post Avatar is a WordPress avatar plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles….
Custom Post Avatar is inspired by Aaron Parecki’s Emoji Avatars functionality on his website (https://aaronparecki.com/2019/02/25/9/emoji), but instead of beeing related to the used emojis in the content it is possible to choose it from the media library independend.
Major features in Custom Post Avatar:
To get results out of this plugin you’ll need a theme displaying user avatars via the get_avatar function.
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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