Best avatar plugins for WordPress
The most popular avatar plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Gravatar Enhanced leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Local Avatars (100K+) and One User Avatar (100K+). All 132 plugins tagged “avatar” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 avatar plugins
- 1.
Gravatar EnhancedThe most installed avatar plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.Simple Local Avatars
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 89 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
One User Avatar100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 41 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
User Profile Picture40K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 59 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 5.
Basic User Avatars20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 42 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.
WP User Avatars20K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 29 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 7.
Simple User Avatar20K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 19 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 8.
Meks Smart Author Widget10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 9.
Leira Letter Avatar6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 28 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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User Profile Picture4K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
All 132 plugins tagged “avatar”

Gravatar Enhanced
Up in the last 7 days:4#283by Automattic8 days ago
The official Gravatar plugin, featuring privacy-focused settings, easy profile updates, and customizable Gravatar Profile blocks.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 240/day
Simple Local Avatars
#312by 10up2 months ago
Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar!
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.6(89)
- Downloads
- 888/day

One User Avatar
#443by One Designs2 months ago
Use any image from your WordPress Media Library as a custom user avatar or user profile picture. Add your own Default Avatar.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(41)
- Downloads
- 483/day

User Profile Picture
Down in the last 7 days:1#894by Cozmoslabs4 months ago
Set a custom profile image (avatar) for a user using the standard WordPress media upload tool.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.6(59)
- Downloads
- 234/day

Basic User Avatars
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,187by Jared Atchison2 years ago
Add an avatar upload field on frontend pages and Edit Profile screen so users can add a custom profile picture.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(42)
- Downloads
- 70/day

WP User Avatars
#1,295by John James Jacoby24 days ago
Allow registered users to upload and select their own avatars.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.5(29)
- Downloads
- 190/day

Simple User Avatar
#1,306by Matteo Manna6 days ago
Simple User Avatar helps users to add or remove their avatar using images from his Media Library.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.6(19)
- Downloads
- 397/day

Meks Smart Author Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,688by Meks2 years ago
Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 47/day

Leira Letter Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,737by Ariel10 months ago
Automatically generate beautiful user avatars based on their initials.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(28)
- Downloads
- 23/day

User Profile Picture
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,342by Dew Technolab15 days ago
Replace Gravatar with a custom profile picture from your Media Library, shown everywhere WordPress displays avatars. Lightweight, no settings.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 63/day

Author Avatars List/Block
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,585by Paul Bearne3 months ago
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(32)
- Downloads
- 40/day
Disable User Gravatar
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,271by Marcus (aka @msykes)4 years ago
Stops WordPress from grabbing a user avatar using their registrated email from gravatar.com.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Better Recent Comments
Down in the last 7 days:21#4,502by Kestrel2 years ago
Provides an improved Recent Comments widget and a shortcode to display your recent comments on any post or page.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(16)
- Downloads
- 20/day
Easy Author Avatar Image
Up in the last 7 days:9#5,607by Mukesh Panchal5 months ago
Upload an author image right from your profile page with the click of a button.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 20/day
Avatar Privacy
Down in the last 7 days:35#6,640by pepe3 years ago
Enhances the privacy of your users and visitors with gravatar opt-in and local avatars.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 14/day

User Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:56#7,567by Saad Iqbal3 years ago
Use any image from your WordPress Media Library as a custom user avatar or user profile picture. Add your own Default Avatar.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

WPAvatar
Up in the last 7 days:19#8,293by 文派翻译(WP Chinese Translation)1 year ago
Use WPAvatar to speed up your website, switch gravatar to Chinese source, and support automatic acquisition and display of QQ Mail avatar.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

FV Gravatar Cache
Up in the last 7 days:39#8,454by FolioVision1 year ago
Speeds up your website by making sure the gravatars are stored on your website and not loading from the gravatar server.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.9(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Add New Default Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:3#8,853by Kailey (trepmal)10 years ago
Add new option to the Default Avatar list.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
BuddyPress Default Cover Photo
Up in the last 7 days:17#8,893by SeventhQueen6 years ago
The plugin adds DEFAULT Profile and Group cover settings in WP Admin - Settings - BuddyPress - Settings.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.8(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WP Avatar
Up in the last 7 days:10#10,063by tomiup7 years ago
Allows you to use any photos uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar instead of using Gravatar.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Profile Picture
Up in the last 7 days:24#10,982by Iftakharul Islam4 months ago
Replace default Gravatars with custom profile pictures! Upload from media library or device. Bulk manage all users from one beautiful admin page.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Harrys Gravatar Cache
Down in the last 7 days:27#11,876by Harry Milatz4 years ago
Accelerates the site speed by simply and effective caching Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars).
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Local Avatars by Nocksoft
Up in the last 7 days:9#11,905by Rafael @ Nocksoft2 years ago
Adds support for local avatars as an alternative to Gravatar.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WP Social Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:176#12,764by Maruti Mohanty10 years ago
This plugin gives the users the option to use their social profile picture as the WordPress Avatar
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Redirect Gravatar requests
Down in the last 7 days:8#13,267by Bart Kuijper4 years ago
All requests to load an avatar from gravatar.com are redirected to a local image, preventing Gravatar from potentially gathering data about your site …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AP Gravatars
Up in the last 7 days:21#13,392by Josh Maxwell14 years ago
A simple plugin that adds the gravatar photo associated with the user's email to their profile page... MultiSite compatable!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Gravatars
Down in the last 7 days:47#14,024by Dougal Campbell17 years ago
Add Gravatars to your comments without modifying any template files. Just activate, and you're done!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravatar Favicon
Up in the last 7 days:13#14,955by Patrick Chia14 years ago
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar favicon for your blog and admin logo included Apple touch icon.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Optimum Gravatar Cache
Up in the last 7 days:99#16,404by José Miguel2 years ago
It stores optimized copies of gravatars locally, reducing the total number of requests. This will speed up site loading and consequently improve the u …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Social Profile Frame Generator
Down in the last 7 days:9#16,619by Jose Varghese2 months ago
All-in-one profile picture frame generator. Allows users to upload their photo, apply a frame, customize with zoom/rotate/bokeh, and download.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 9/day

Cat Generator Avatars
Down in the last 7 days:374#16,852by abnerchou6 years ago
This plugin integrates the Cat Generator Avatars avatar into WordPress, BuddyPress and Ultimate Member.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wapuuvatar
Down in the last 7 days:111#17,134by Lee Willis2 months ago
Uses Wapuus from the Wapuu archive as your site avatars.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Minotar
Down in the last 7 days:64#20,128by clone101813 years ago
Minotar enables the use of Minecraft avatars in WordPress.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CodeablePress
#20,333by codeablepress10 months ago
A simple, lightweight, and secure way for users to upload profile pictures directly from the WooCommerce My Account page or via shortcode.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Author Image(s)
Up in the last 7 days:156#20,658by Scott Reilly15 years ago
Display image (if present) and/or name for the author of a post, or for all authors on the blog.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display Avatars
Down in the last 7 days:355#20,741by D'Arcy Norman7 years ago
Displays the avatar for a post's author, without having to hack it into the theme.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravatar Signup Encouragement
Down in the last 7 days:10#21,317by Milan Dinić14 years ago
Shows a message with link to Gravatar's signup page to commenters and/or users without gravatar.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DT Author Box
Up in the last 7 days:115#21,478by DigitalTweaker7 years ago
Easily add an author box bio signature with custom profile image and social profile buttons to the end of each author's posts
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Default Gravatar Sans
Down in the last 7 days:127#21,531by raohmaru9 years ago
Disables Gravatar.com avatar, and allows one local default avatar image for users without avatar in his profile.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

HiDPI Gravatars
Down in the last 7 days:63#21,828by Robert Chapin11 years ago
Enables high resolution Gravatar images on any browser that supports them.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

GITST CUSTOM AVATAR
Up in the last 7 days:7#23,301by Haykaz Kotanjyan10 years ago
Set custom AVATAR (User Profile Image) and store avatars into Database as base64 string.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Profile widget
Up in the last 7 days:126#24,417by Ryan Hellyer11 years ago
A WordPress widget for displaying user profile information on single post pages.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Manage User Avatar
#24,653by escaleta5 years ago
WP Manage User Avatar plugin allows you to set your users avatar and select a uniform avatar theme for all users. You can set a avatar from the initia …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Frontend User Avatar
#24,684by Albert Tarres1 year ago
Effortlessly manage and display your user profile avatar from the frontend
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ChargeWP
Up in the last 7 days:397#24,988by ChargeWP11 months ago
Change your profile picture instantly from the front end. Simple, fast, and built to feel like part of WordPress.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

User Avatar For Woocommerce
#25,940by Roberto Bottalico5 years ago
Aggiunge un semplice avatar al tuo woocommerce riguardo i clienti e al tuo wordpress riguardo l'admin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Simple Google Authorship and Avatar
Up in the last 7 days:58#25,963by Mark-k13 years ago
Enables users to easily claim google authorship on their content and use their google profile picture as an avatar
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Unstoppable User Profiles
Up in the last 7 days:29,603#25,981by Unstoppable Solutions4 months ago
Let logged-in members edit their own profile and upload a profile photo from the front end. No media library access. Works with any membership plugin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Author or User Image
#26,311by Alimuzzaman Alim24 days ago
Allow registered users to upload a local avatar image and set an optional default image for the site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day