Installing the plugin and placing the uploader

Install and activate #

1. Go to Plugins → Add New and search for Advanced User Avatar, or upload the zip under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
2. Click Activate.
3. Open Users → Users Avatar. The settings are there, not under Settings.

The plugin needs WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. Nothing else is required — WooCommerce, BuddyPress, WP-Members and Better Messages are optional integrations, not dependencies.

Activation is enough for avatars to start working: any photo a user already has, or sets from their profile screen, appears site-wide immediately. Placing the uploader is only about giving people a front-end page on which to change their own picture.

Option 1: the block #

Edit any page, click the inserter (+), search for Advanced User Avatar, and insert it. The block renders the real widget in the editor, so you can see what your users will get.

Option 2: the shortcodes #

Two shortcodes work anywhere shortcodes do — pages, posts, widgets and most page builders.

[wpmake_advance_user_avatar_upload]   the full upload form
[wpmake_advance_user_avatar]          the current user's avatar, display only

Both accept attributes for size and shape, covered in Styling the uploader and sizing avatars.

Option 3: nowhere at all #

Every user can set their own picture at Users → Profile in the admin without any placement, and administrators can set one for somebody else from the Manage Avatars tab. On a site whose users never see the front-end dashboard, that may be all you need.

If you run WooCommerce, switch on the WooCommerce integration instead: the uploader is added to the Account details page for you, with no shortcode to place.

Who can upload #

The uploader only renders for a logged-in user, and it only ever changes that person’s own picture. A logged-out visitor sees nothing at all — not an empty widget, and none of the plugin’s scripts or styles.