WordPress has many useful plugins to increase author and user interaction. Having a good author profile page is one of them. One of the most important part of the author page is author’s profile photo, so users can associate a picture with them. User Photo plugin allows a user to associate a profile photo with their account through their “Your Profile” page. Admins may add a user profile photo by accessing the “Edit User” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page. A thumbnail image correspondingly is also generated. User photos may be displayed within a post or a comment to help identify the author. To see the documentations on how to implement this plugin, see the WordPress Plugin page.
Hi
Can you help, I had this plugin working fine on a test site but not on the live site – the user pictures appear in the user back-end but not on the post or author pages?
Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen?
thanks
Kat
Extremely hard to tell without looking at the site.
So I have to download the plugin to get the image to show on google searches, am I correct? I have everything else setup and linked with google+ profile, email verification etc. I was thinking the image would show up from my google+ profile. But it sounds like I need the WP plugin as well. Can you please confirm?
No, this is for WordPress itself. If you want to show author picture next to google search results, then you need this article:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/
Is there any way that a non wordpress user can use an image while commenting on my blog??? whenever people comment on my blog , if they are non-wordpress user no display picture is shown
Most WordPress themes come with Gravatar support. If your users are signed up with Gravatar, then their picture will show up. Like your picture did in this comment.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-gravatar-and-why-you-should-start-using-it-right-away/
A better and more updated plugin: Simple Local Avatars (search wordpress plguin reposiroty)
No need of editing any files.
Joey, that plugin you posted is useless and very broken. The User Photo plugin is the best one out there right now and works perfectly!
joey is the best, it’s working perfectly…
thanks dude…
Thanks Joey! Simple Local Avatars was awesome! For anyone downloading this plugin, there plugin settings are not in the “settings” or “tools” section. Just upload the plugin and go to the “Users” section. The upload form will be in the users information where you put the bio, email, and other social media contact info.
Thanks Joey, it works… perfect… saved me from frustration
The image is not displaying in all user lists. Can any one help ?
@Sham You have to make sure that you have the php code to display the image in your template.
We have a theme that has a registration/profile page on the front end. any idea on how to add the upload image option to the front end? thanks.
really helpful post
Hi
I have successfully uploaded user photo plugin. Successfully imported image. But image does not display. What is missing?
@ArsalanTosifi me also have the same problem.
@Rahoof PM @ArsalanTosifi You do not have the code in your theme to display it. You have to add the user photo code. Click on the plugin page, they have the code there.
Hi!
Thank you for this post and plugin! I have been searching for something and am so happy to have found my answer!
Thanks again!
Ruth M
Any idea on how to integrate this with bbpress discussions?
thanks
Nope. We haven’t really looked into bbPress yet.
Hi,
I have about 200 jpeg photossaved, and I would like to put them in the userphoto folder and have them become that person’s photo, and the user can come back and change it if they wish. I tested this out by placing a photo admin.jpeg in the folder, but it did not take effect. do you know how I can do a mass upload of photos for userphoto?
Thanks,
Aaron
You can’t just FTP stuff because the value is also stored in the database. It is better to ask all your editors to add the pictures by themselves.
Yeah this is nice good wp plugin to share author’s picture.
Thankyou for this Useful plugin
Thank you for highlighting this plug-in.
Thank you, this is one thing that has stressed me out.