Can I use the default wordpress avatar for the message plugin?

Hi there!

If you are using 3rd party plugin to set avatars, that may be not supported out of the box and you need to integrate it customly using this hook:

https://www.better-messages.com/docs/development/php-filters/better_messages_rest_user_item

Thanks!

I have no clue how to set the hook to use default wordpress avatar lol

Hi there!

By default WordPress does not have functions to change avatars, so it does not makes sense that you are saying that you are using default wordpress avatar.

Thanks!

Well i mean im using the default wordpress profile picture function not a custom one and i use a plugin to change your actual wordpress profile picture if that makes more sense and i have no idea how to write a code snippet which fetches avatars from wordpress itself

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by unbelievable.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by unbelievable.

I managed to write a working functions snippet code which fetches original wordpress profile picture here is the code if anyone needs it

add_filter('better_messages_rest_user_item', 'custom_user_meta', 50, 3);

function custom_user_meta($item, $user_id, $include_personal) {
    
    // Fetch the avatar HTML for the user
    $avatar_html = get_avatar($user_id);

    // Check if the avatar HTML is not empty
    if (!empty($avatar_html)) {
        // Extract the URL from the avatar HTML
        preg_match('/src="(.*?)"/', $avatar_html, $matches);
        if (isset($matches[1])) {
            // Set custom avatar URL
            $item['avatar'] = $matches[1];
        }
    } else {
        // If no uploaded avatar is found, fall back to the default WordPress avatar
        $item['avatar'] = get_avatar_url($user_id);
    }

    return $item;
}