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I need to get the post author profile picture link.

I know I can use get_avatar(); but it displays whole image markup

<img src="http://.../img.png" class="avatar img-responsive" alt="image">

But need only the src of the author profile pic.

How can I got that ? Maybe we can use some php or js to take out the only src value from the total output.

My second question is, how can I add that image as post_thumbnail if no thumbnail exist for that post ?

I need to get the post author profile picture link.

I know I can use get_avatar(); but it displays whole image markup

<img src="http://.../img.png" class="avatar img-responsive" alt="image">

But need only the src of the author profile pic.

How can I got that ? Maybe we can use some php or js to take out the only src value from the total output.

My second question is, how can I add that image as post_thumbnail if no thumbnail exist for that post ?

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Share Improve this question asked Sep 5, 2015 at 20:54 hkchakladarhkchakladar 33211 gold badge33 silver badges1313 bronze badges 4

• Answer is here: wordpress.stackexchange/a/188288/24875 You simply use the get_avatar_url() function. – Christine Cooper ♦ Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 21:24
• Oh, I see it is a new feature, so I didn't got it in codex. Any comment on my second part of the question ? – hkchakladar Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 21:47
• in The loop you can check if thumbnail exist with function has_post_thumbnail(). In case of false display your image. – Alexey Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 22:35
• Possible duplicate of How do I get the avatar URL instead of an HTML IMG tag when using get_avatar? – Andy Macaulay-Brook Commented Oct 8, 2016 at 10:52

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Putting the following inside loop should fulfill your needs:

<?php
$get_author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
$get_author_gravatar = get_avatar_url($get_author_id, array('size' => 450));

if(has_post_thumbnail()){
    the_post_thumbnail();
} else {
    echo '<img src="'.$get_author_gravatar.'" alt="'.get_the_title().'" />';
}
?>

just use the function get_avatart_uri() and pass in the user's email as the parameter it will give you the avatar image url

Beside using get_avatar_url, you can still use get_avatar. If I'm not wrong, this is what you're looking for.

Question 1

Get the post author profile picture link

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<?php 
    // only output if gravatar function exists
    if (function_exists('get_avatar')) { ?>

    <?php
    // Convert email into md5 hash and set image size to 32px
    $gravatar = 'http://www.gravatar/avatar/' . md5(strtolower($user_email)) . '&s=32';

    // Convert email into md5 hash and remove image size to use as post image
    $gravatar_bg = 'http://www.gravatar/avatar/' . md5(strtolower($user_email)) . '';
    ?>
    <!-- Output the gravatar as img src -->
    <img src="<?php echo "$gravatar";?>" alt="">

    <!-- Output the gravatar as background url -->
    <div class="avatar" style="background: url(<?php echo $gravatar_bg ?>);" ></div>

<?php } ?>

Question 2

Add that image as post_thumbnail if no thumbnail exist for that post

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<?php
    // Check if post has thumbnail 
    // if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {            // option 1
    if ( '' != get_the_post_thumbnail() ) {     // option 2

    // if has, output the thumbnail
      the_post_thumbnail();

    } else {
     // if not, show the gravatar image
     echo '<img src="<?php echo "$gravatar";?>" alt="">';
    }
?>

Hope this helps, good luck!

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Resources: Using Gravatars | hast_post_thumbnail

UPDATE(22 May, 2021) - I am using a plugin Simple Local Avatars to allow users to update images locally. The below solution will only work if you use this plugin.

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Just In case someone is looking for full image of author and not finding it. Here is a little hack.

Simple Method

$avatar_url  = get_avatar_url( $author_id ); //this will give 96x96 image.
$final_url   = str_replace('-96x96.', '.',$author_avatar_url);

Replacing the -96x96. with just a ., Just need to make sure Image name doesn't include this string. Alternatively you can look for the same string from reverse and do the replace using substr_replace() like:

More Accurate Method

$avatar_url  = get_avatar_url( $author_id ); //this will give 96x96 image.
$replace   = '-96x96.';
$pos = strpos($avatar_url, $replace, -(strlen($replace)+5)); // +5 for length of ext
$final_url = substr_replace($avatar_url, '.', $pos, strlen($replace));

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This is the first result on google while looking for full image of author so it might help someone.

This is all I do to add the registered user's avatar.

<img src="<?php echo get_avatar_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')); ?>" class="YOUR CSS CLASS">

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