How to change your Default avatar in wordpress

Adding a new avatar image to the default wordpress avatar called mystery man was always a new bloggers problem, Follow our tutorial and choose avatar which is more suitable to your theme.

Open your theme’s functions.php file and add this new function.

add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'newgravatar' );
function newgravatar ($avatar_defaults) {
$myavatar = get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/my-gravatar.jpg';
$avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "My Avatar";
return $avatar_defaults;
}

We are done. Using the add_filter function we changed the avat_default function a little bit, with newgravatar function. We added our new avatar in default wordpress avatar list. Change my-gravatar.jpg with your own. This file must be located in /images/ folder of your theme.

Now in order to change your default avatar go to Settings>Discussion and choose your image.

Cheers, Joshu

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9 Responses to “How to change your Default avatar in wordpress”

1. Web design Hyderabad says:

   November 9, 2009 at 8:35 pm

   Exactly what i was searching for.
   Also do you know can these be done automatically by any plugins ?

   Do let me know ….

   Reply
   • admin says:

     November 9, 2009 at 8:37 pm

     Hey !

     Infact this is the simplest method, And plugins are there, they will only allow your memebrs to add local avatars at the time of posting. (as far as i know)
     Do this and easly add more and more avatars !
     Cheers, Josh

     Reply
2. Web design Hyderabad says:

   November 9, 2009 at 8:35 pm

   Exactly what i was searching for.
   Also do you know can these be done automatically by any plugins ?

   Do let me know ….

   Reply
   • admin says:

     November 9, 2009 at 8:37 pm

     Hey !

     Infact this is the simplest method, And plugins are there, they will only allow your memebrs to add local avatars at the time of posting. (as far as i know)
     Do this and easly add more and more avatars !
     Cheers, Josh

     Reply
3. Kevin Ronnie says:

   February 3, 2010 at 11:13 am

   i did not quiet get this working on changing the mistery man avatar, could you help me a lil further josh, ?

   -kevin

   Reply
4. Kevin Ronnie says:

   February 3, 2010 at 4:43 pm

   i did not quiet get this working on changing the mistery man avatar, could you help me a lil further josh, ?

   -kevin

   Reply
5. AutoInsuranceGroup says:

   March 14, 2010 at 6:14 pm

   The webpage is actually full of outstanding detail and is actually really exciting to read.

   Properly done.

   Reply
6. AutoInsuranceGroup says:

   March 14, 2010 at 11:44 pm

   The webpage is actually full of outstanding detail and is actually really exciting to read.

   Properly done.

   Reply
7. ♥nodame♥ says:

   April 2, 2010 at 2:29 pm

   Out of all of the sites that I've been too, this is the only one that actually made sense, and got my site to show custom avatars without messing up the code x_x

   THANK YOU!

   Reply