Upload your own user profile picture rather than falling back to the default or having your users create a Gravatar account.
As of April 2026, Tismy User Profile Upload is a WordPress user plugin with 40 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: User Role Editor.
Sometimes handing your site over to clients or when you run a site with multiple users if can be a pain to explain how your
users can create their own profile picture for comments or any other custom functionality that uses the get_avatar() function.
Before they would have to create a global Gravatar account which is fine if that’s what you want however, with this plugin there
is no need to rely on your users having a Gravatar account.
This plugin will allow the users on your WordPress site to upload their own Profile Picture through the Media Library either by Uploading a new file or choosing one from the Media Library.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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