Cant get profile photos working (user avatars)

#1 · February 6, 2018, 11:00 pm

Hi guys,

I love the simplicity of this product. Thanks so much for your efforts its really appreciated, I’ve just donated $20 to you Thomas.

One issue Im faced with after installing however is that I simply cannot get user profiles to show, no matter what I seemingly try. As suggested in this thread I have installed Simple Local Avatars, and added the following script (as suggested in the mentioned thread) to my functions.php file, but its still not showing?

I also tried removing the plugin and using just Gravatar, but that didnt work either.

Im currently testing this plugin here – you can see I have no profile photo for the test user I have setup.

Personally I think it would make sense just to add user profile photos as a feature within the forum.

Can someone please help?

PS – Ironically user profile photos are showing here lol

#2 · February 6, 2018, 11:52 pm

I think your problem is that you do not have profile turned on in your settings. When I compare you to myself in the member profile, mine shows the avatar icon (which I can’t seem to get to work because it is not picking up the avatar I have in Gravatar) and yours does not.

See attached for what I am talking about.

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#3 · February 6, 2018, 11:54 pm

Hello John,

first of all: Thank you for your support! 🙂

Have you enabled avatars in your general WordPress-settings (Settings -> Discussion)? If so, you can also try the following avatar-plugin, because Simple Local Avatars seems not working 100% anymore:

WP User Avatars

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#4 · February 7, 2018, 12:11 am

Quote from Asgaros on February 6, 2018, 11:54 pm

Have you enabled avatars in your general WordPress-settings (Settings -> Discussion)?

Bingo!

That’s what it was, cheers.

I’m going to try that plugin as not everyone has a Gravatar account 🙂

#5 · February 7, 2018, 12:14 am

I am glad to hear that its working now!

Yes, this plugin should work fine. The profile-background-images were not working anymore with Simple Local Avatars so I had to look for this alternative.

If you want to support the development of Asgaros Forum, you can leave a good review or donate. Thank you very much!

#6 · February 7, 2018, 12:42 am

Problem solved.

I had to enabled Avatars as you suggested Thomas.

Ive now installed the plugin you recommended and its working also.

I didnt have to add any code to my functions.php file

Hopefully this thread helps someone else 🙂

Cheers