90
One User Avatar | User Profile Picture
Pure relief for anyone escaping the old WP User Avatar.
HealthyGrowing
90/100
It is a reliable and lightweight fork that solves a specific profile need.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.7★
41 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+47%
Growing fast
217 → 319 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +47% in the last year
217/day a year ago→319/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayOne User Avatar is a well-regarded fork of WP User Avatar that earns praise for being lightweight and functional, though a small number of users report performance and UI polish concerns.
What people like
- +Works reliably as a drop-in replacement for the hijacked WP User Avatar plugin, preserving existing profile images during migration×3
- +Easy and fast to set up×3
- +Responsive and helpful developer support×2
- +Works with WooCommerce via shortcode integration
- +Seen as filling a gap that WordPress core should cover natively
Common complaints
- −Setting a default avatar causes high CPU and memory usage, slowing down the admin area
- −Plugin icon is considered visually intrusive and out of place in the admin sidebar and editor toolbar
- −At least one user reports the avatar upload field does not appear on the user profile page at all
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.72★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 41 total
Latest reviews · 41 analyzed
- 2024-07-01★★★★★Slows down sitediraph
- 2023-12-16★★★★★Just doesn't work unless you like 1×1 imagesDennis Bareis
- 2023-11-12★★★★★works!holdportals
- 2023-10-14★★★★★Works wellAndrzej Klasén
- 2023-10-05★★★★★Slick and simple.Ancient Tom
- 2023-03-22★★★★★Great plugin, BUT… hideous icon.aszx
- 2023-03-21★★★★★Sweet plugin that gets the job done!Christian Saborio
- 2023-02-07★★★★★It does exactly what it saysdanielepais
- 2023-01-06★★★★★Finally – tank you!Nemokapitany
- 2022-12-16★★★★★excellent pluginEric Malalel
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
280
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
326
Prior 7-day baseline
209
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
347
Mean release-day peak (30d)
331
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-14.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.73 → 4.72★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered