Adds a shortcode that echos the current Twitter avatar for a username. Image URL is cached.
As of April 2026, Twivatar is a WordPress avatar plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles….
Adds twivatar shortcode. When also passed a Twitter handle as the name attribute, the plugin will get the current avatar from Twitter, and store the URL for 24 hours. It then echoes out an image.
Attributes (optional unless marked otherwise):
name – Twitter handle. Required.size – One of ‘mini’, ‘normal’ or ‘bigger’ Default is ‘normal’.link – Whether to link the image to the profile page on Twitter. Default is true.linkclass – class attribute value of the link. Default is none.rel – rel attribute value of the link. Default is none.class – class attribute value of the image. Default is none.title – title attribute value of the image. Default is none.Please report all issue via https://github.…
| WordPress | 2.8.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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