Generated default avatar option?

  • Resolved Soprano

    (@soprano)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    I’ve been using Avatar Privacy to handle my local avatars and improve the load time from the many Gravatar connection requests.

    It lacks the ability to let users upload avatars from the front end like say from the My Account page of Woocommerce Memberships.

    One feature I do like however is that it generate different types of avatar family packs to make the local default set avatars more interesting, I presently use the “Rings” generated avatar pack which makes the website feel more dynamic when users haven’t set an avatar.

    Is it possible to add something similar to this plugin?

    Thank you!

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  • Hey @soprano,

    Thank you for reaching out.

    There is not like a feature like this, so I reached out to our team who advised to create an issue: https://github.com/strangerstudios/Basic-User-Avatars/issues/70. This has not been requested before, so our developers may look into this, but I cannot give an ETA if this will be added.

    Kind regards,

    Michael

    Thread Starter Soprano

    (@soprano)

    Thank you @michaelbeil.

    The ‘Identicon (Generated)’ default avatar comes close to this functionality from the Settings > Discussion page. The only issue I have with it though is that it seems to create connection requests to Gravatar.com (https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/35568d943ca9a4044662dff0a47d3bda?s=50&d=identicon&r=pg this URL has x2 requests) which kind of defeats the purpose of using this plugin to optimize load time performance by hosting local avatars.

    One thing I’m trying to find, and I’m not sure if I just assumed this plugin would do, is to set an uploaded image as the Default Avatar.

    If instead of using a Generated Identicon, I wanted to upload for example the logo of my business as the default avatar for users with no selected local avatar, how would I do this?

    Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Soprano.

    @soprano I have created a small snippet that helps you achieve this – https://gist.github.com/andrewlimaza/f696ee7b8727f07ca1f473a0096a87a9

    This assumes that you are using Gravatar (or one of it’s services) as the default avatar. If the avatar URL of secure.gravatar.com is found we assume that there’s no uploaded/linked Gravatar and the default avatar image is loaded.

    I hope this helps get you started.

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