About this plugin
Your WooCommerce customers are faceless. Reviews come from anonymous silhouettes, the My Account dashboard greets returning shoppers with a generic placeholder, and every account in your store feels like a transaction instead of a person. Faceless reviews are trusted less, and anonymous accounts give your customers no reason to feel connected to your brand. Advanced User Avatar gives every WooCommerce customer a real profile photo, uploaded from their device in seconds. The avatar appears on the My Account dashboard and the Account Details page automatically, and you choose which other parts of your store show it — product reviews, order history, checkout and wishlists. Every photo is stored on your own server. Your customers need no Gravatar account, and the picture shows up everywhere WordPress renders an avatar: comments, author boxes, the admin bar and the Users list. For BuddyPress communities, it replaces the default avatar uploader with a faster flow. For WP-Members sites, it adds the uploader to the profile form. For any other WordPress site, drop the uploader anywhere with a shortcode or the Gutenberg block. Features WooCommerce integration My Account Dashboard avatar — customer’s profile photo displays on the dashboard the moment they log in Account Details upload field — customers update their photo from the same page they manage their account Product review avatars — reviewers show as real people on product pages instead of Gravatar silhouettes Choose where avatars appear — My Account dashboard, Account details, order history, product reviews, checkout and wishlists, each switched on or off independently Secure upload handling — file types are validated from the file’s contents rather than its name, uploads require a logged-in customer, and your size and type limits are enforced on the server whatever the request claims Page builder compatible — works alongside Bricks Builder and other builders without duplicate template rendering Upload experience Crop interface — customers position and size their photo before saving Webcam capture — take a photo directly in the browser, no file needed EXIF orientation handling — phone photos stay upright after cropping File type validation — you choose which of JPG, PNG, GIF and WEBP are allowed Max file size control — set the upload ceiling from settings Media Library picker — optionally let customers choose an image they already uploaded, off by default Auto-generated image sizes — 32, 64 and 96 pixel variants created on upload, so a small avatar downloads a small file Placement options for developers and site builders Shortcode: [wpmake_advance_user_avatar_upload] renders the full upload form on any page Shortcode: [wpmake_advance_user_avatar] outputs the current user’s avatar Gutenberg block for drag-and-drop placement in the block editor Profile screen field at Users > Profile, the place most people look first Bulk avatar manager — every user with their current picture, searchable and sortable, on the Users > Users Avatar screen Theme template overrides, action hooks and CSS custom properties for anything the settings do not cover BuddyPress integration Replaces the default BuddyPress avatar uploader with the same upload, crop, and webcam flow used across your site Displays on member profile pages and the member directory so communities feel populated by people, not placeholders Better Messages integration Custom avatars appear in the Better Messages chat interface automatically, replacing the default Gravatar with the user’s uploaded photo WP-Members integration Avatar uploader added to the WP-Members profile edit form — members update their photo from the same page they edit their profile fields No template editing — the field is inserted into the existing form when the integration is switched on No Gravatar, no external data sharing Gravatar sends a hash of every visitor’s email address to an external server to fetch their photo. For EU stores and any site under GDPR scope, that third-party request is a compliance question your legal team would rather not answer. Advanced User Avatar stores every photo on your own server. No outbound requests, no hashed emails leaving your site, no third-party dependency. Install the plugin and give your customers a face on your store.