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One User Avatar | User Profile Picture

Use any image from your WordPress Media Library as a custom user avatar or user profile picture. Add your own Default Avatar.

By One Designs·Users·Free
4.7(41 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, One User Avatar is a WordPress users plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 41 reviews. It has been downloaded 498K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 7% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: User Switching.

4.7/541 reviews
100K+active installs
0%resolved
5 yearssince 2021

Overview

WordPress currently only allows you to use custom avatars that are uploaded through Gravatar. One User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary. This plugin is a fork of WP User Avatar v2.2.16.

One User Avatar also lets you:

  • Upload your own Default Avatar in your One User Avatar settings.
  • Show the user’s Gravatar avatar or Default Avatar if the user doesn’t have a One User Avatar image.
  • Disable Gravatar avatars and use only local avatars.
  • Use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to a front page or widget. This uploader is only visible to logged-in users.
  • Use the [avatar] shortcode in your post…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.741 reviews
5 ★
37
4 ★
1
3 ★
0
2 ★
2
1 ★
1

Recent Reviews

Slows down site
by diraph·1 year ago

The plugin slows down site (admin area) when you choose a default avatar.

Causes high CPU and physical memory usage.

I wouldn’t recommend as it caused me pain.

Just doesn’t work unless you like 1×1 images
by Dennis Bareis·2 years ago

At least on up to date untested version of WordPress & PHP. It doesn’t resize the original image but uses HTML to so, so you better start with a small image! In my case my avatar became a dot as it used html height/width to create a 1×1 image:

<img src="ht...com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/K....jpg" width="1" height="1" alt="user name" class="avatar avatar-32 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-32 alignnone photo">

works!
by holdportals·2 years ago

just works

Works well
by Andrzej Klasén·2 years ago

Works well with imges in my Media library.

Slick and simple.
by Ancient Tom·2 years ago

Just what the doctor ordered. something simple with a simple setup. All I need is a avatar plugin that just slips into the user settings and replaces the Gravatar requirement that depends on an outside avatar service. It actually has a compatibility with the Ultimate Member plugin. It can upload avatars directly using the browser instead of WordPress’s image uploader which gives everyone access to your WordPress image library.

Download Trends

Today: 284Yesterday: 437This week: 2KPeriod total: 143K

Compatibility

WordPress4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.5
85.5%
v2.4
9.2%
v2.3
5.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.5.3

  • Add compatibility for WordPress 6.9
  • Limit plugin tags to 5
  • Fix avatar class name
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
2.5.4
Last Updated
Jan 12, 2026
WP Requires
4.0+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
100K+
Downloads
498K+
Added
May 25, 2021
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

O
One Designs
1 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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