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How to Change Default Avatar / Gravatar in WordPress

Updated on by App  

As you all know, WordPress blog is among the best blogging platform. WordPress has a default gravatar for people on my blog that do not have their own gravatar.

Just in case if you want to change default Gravatar on your blog then simply follow below steps.

Step-1.

Open your theme’s functions.php  file.

Step-2.

Add below code at the end of file.

add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'crunchifygravatar' );

function crunchifygravatar ($avatar_defaults) {
    $myavatar = get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/avatar.png';
    // OR --> $myavatar = "https://crunchify.com/Crunchify.png";
    $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "Crunchify Avatar";
    return $avatar_defaults;
}

Step-3.

Head over to Settings -> Discussion -> Default Avatar  Section.

Step-4.

Select your new avatar and click Save Changes.

Choose your custom Gravatar in WordPress - Crunchify Tips

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  15 Comments...

  1. Trent says

    Looks like this dosn’t work anymore for some reason? Any ideas?

    I used the exact same code above and added the avatar.png to theme images folder. When I use Chromes Dev tools the image src= the below. For some reason the http://0.gravatar. com site is still being pulled in before.

    src=”http: //0.gravatar. com/avatar/3cd797eb8894e1f826d51deab7d2e176?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2Fstaq%3A8887%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fshopkeeper%2Fimages%2Favatar.png&r=pg&forcedefault=1″

    –

    Sorry think I figured it out as Im using a local setup currently

      • Trent says

        Not 100% if it was that or if I accidently deleted index from the server block. All the same fixed now.

  2. lemisstache says

    Is it possible to change the link on my current avatar from wordpress to a self hosted site? I changed my primary site on the settings but it still pulls up my wordpress link.

    TIA! 🙂

    • App Shah says

      Hi there – For all existing comments, you may not be able to change author URL. You could do it by changing URLs to DB directly.

    • App Shah says

      Hi Sam. avatar_defaults is a default WordPress hook and should work by default. Which theme are you using? Would suggest to check this on default WordPress theme TwentyFifteen.

  4. Nathan Swartz says

    I end up with a path to Gravatar preceeding the URL, like: src=”http:// gravatar. com/avatar/28d3b36956f2493a71a5bb61df1974f7?d=http://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/mytheme/img/default-avatar.png&s=75&r=G”

    • PIIANTOM says

      It will not work with localhost: In fact, what happens is that gravatar’s server will request your image url, and will probably check it can be accessed (or even maybe get it to send it back, I do not know)…
      But, for sure, gravatar’s will not access your localhost.
      Online, altough, it will work for sure

  5. Parajunkee says

    I have been searching the internet everywhere and this comment saved me. Thank you. 😀

  6. Komarik says

    Excellent!
    But if you use child theme, change (‘template_directory’) to (‘stylesheet_directory’)