BP Local Avatars

Do you have members or groups on your BuddyPress site who don’t have an Avatar?
And you don’t want to show the generic default avatar?

Or maybe you don’t want each page view to include a lot of calls to gravatar.com to load avatars?

Then this free plugin can solve your problem.

It will create Gravatar Avatars and store them locally.

And it will do so for:

• each member sign-up
• each member log-in ( if they don’t already have an Avatar )
• each member created from the back-end
• whenever you decide to Bulk Generate avatars for all members and groups

If a member already has their own Gravatar, it will store it locally.

Members and Groups can still upload and crop their own avatars.  They will not be overwritten.

The plugin uses the existing BuddyPress avatar directory structure. It also conforms to your full and thumb size settings for avatars.

Here are some examples:

After you upload and activate this plugin, go to Dashboard > Settings > Discussion and scroll down to ‘Default Avatars’.  There you will see a new option.

Select the option and Save.  If you don’t, this plugin will not do anything. 

After saving, you will see the Bulk Generate section which includes a link you can use whenever you like.

This plugin also supports Gravatar’s Wavatar and MonsterID options.  See the readme.txt for more info.

BP Local Avatars requires WordPress 4.0 or higher and BuddyPress 2.0 or higher. It is compatible with the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress.