[wp-hackers] Change the user avatar url to a user meta field url?

[Nikola Nikolov]

You can still use a plugin for that. For instance this plugin -
http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-avatar/ . It's very simple since all it
does is add interface in the edit profile page in the admin that allows you
to upload a photo to the media library(I think) and then use that as your
avatar. It also allows you to crop the photo. What I'd advice you to do is
to simply download the plugin and go through it's source - it's basically
three .php files, one of which is timthumb(yeah, I know - that's not good
in a plugin :) ).


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:03 PM, BenderisGreat
<greglancaster71 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I know there are plugins for handling a local user avatar, but it seems
> like
> a giant pain in the ass to code something myself for this.  I even asked
> around and was told to just use a plugin, but I cannot package someone
> elses
> plugin with what I am making.
>
> So, I am wondering if there is a way to replace the user avatar with a user
> meta field that points to a url.  I know it wont technically be an avatar
> in
> wordpress' eyes, but this would be much simple to allow front end avatar
> uploading.  Just select an image, store the url in a custom field, and then
> have the avatar call redirected to look at the users avatar meta field.
>
> Is this a realistic solution?
>
>
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