Changing Default User Avatar in WordPress

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Changing Default User Avatar in WordPress

September 28, 2016
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WordPress has a default avatar for users who register themselves on a particular WP site. Instead of using a default avatar, users can upload their own profile avatar. In this article, you will learn how to change the default user avatar.

Seven default avatars are available in WordPress; a user/admin can select any of them. From WordPress Dashboard admin menu, just navigate to Settings->Discussion.

In the screenshot above, default avatars are listed as follows:

Mystery Person
Blank
Gravatar Logo
Identicon (Generated)
Wavatar (Generated)
MonsterID (Generated)
Retro (Generated)

“Mystery Person” is selected by default. Additionally, you can see in the screenshot “PressTigers Avatar“, which is a custom avatar added by using the following code:

function pt_avatar_defaults($avatar_defaults) {
    $myavatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/assets/images/sa_default.jpg';
    $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "PressTigers Avatar";
    return $avatar_defaults;
}
add_filter('avatar_defaults', 'pt_avatar_defaults');

function pt_avatar_defaults($avatar_defaults) {

$myavatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/assets/images/sa_default.jpg';

$avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "PressTigers Avatar";

return $avatar_defaults;

}

add_filter('avatar_defaults', 'pt_avatar_defaults');

With this code, “avatar_defaults” filter will add a new avatar option in the list. The filter function has one array “$avatar_defaults“. This array contains the list of default avatars and you can add or remove any of them. To add a new default avatar in the list, following two inputs are required:

Avatar Image URL
Name of the Avatar

For the above mentioned case, we have the following URL and name:

$myavatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/pt_default.jpg';
$avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "PressTigers Avatar";

1 2	$myavatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/pt_default.jpg'; $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "PressTigers Avatar";

Now, create a variable “$myavatar” and assign the image URL to it. After that, add “$myavatar” to the “$avatar_defaults” array. At the end, this array will be returned and the new avatar will be added in the default avatar list.