apply_filters( 'get_avatar', string $avatar, mixed $id_or_email, int $size, string $default, string $alt, array $args )

Filters the HTML for a user’s avatar.

Parameters

$avatar

(string) HTML for the user's avatar.

$id_or_email

(mixed) The avatar to retrieve. Accepts a user_id, Gravatar MD5 hash, user email, WP_User object, WP_Post object, or WP_Comment object.

$size

(int) Square avatar width and height in pixels to retrieve.

$default

(string) URL for the default image or a default type. Accepts '404', 'retro', 'monsterid', 'wavatar', 'indenticon', 'mystery', 'mm', 'mysteryman', 'blank', or 'gravatar_default'. Default is the value of the 'avatar_default' option, with a fallback of 'mystery'.

$alt

(string) Alternative text to use in the avatar image tag. Default empty.

$args

(array) Arguments passed to get_avatar_data(), after processing.

More Information

The “get_avatar” filter can be used to alter the avatar image returned by the get_avatar() function.

There are two tricky parts to using this filter:

  1. get_avatar() can be passed a user ID, user object or email address. So we will not know what we are looking at and will need to check for them all.
  2. It returns the entire image html string with classes, alt, and src. So you need to recreate the entire thing, not just send back the image url.

Source

File: wp-includes/pluggable.php

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Used By

Used By Description
wp-includes/pluggable.php: get_avatar()

Retrieve the avatar <img> tag for a user, email address, MD5 hash, comment, or post.

Changelog

Version Description
4.2.0 The $args parameter was added.
2.5.0 Introduced.

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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_avatar