{"id":795,"date":"2026-10-20T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/change-user-avatar-banner-admin\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:04:57","slug":"change-user-avatar-banner-admin","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/change-user-avatar-banner-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change a user’s profile picture and banner from the admin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Admins can upload or replace a user’s UsersWP profile picture and cover banner from the user’s edit screen in wp-admin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Go to Users > All Users and click Edit under the user.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Scroll down to the UsersWP Account Details section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Click Upload Avatar (or Change Avatar if they already have one) and choose an image. Crop it and save.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Do the same with Upload Banner or Change Banner for the cover image.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Click Update User at the bottom of the page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The WordPress Profile Picture field higher up on the same screen is not the UsersWP picture. WordPress takes that one from Gravatar, and UsersWP leaves it alone inside wp-admin. On the front end, UsersWP shows the uploaded picture instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Users can change their own picture and banner on their profile page while logged in, by clicking the camera icon on the avatar or banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The image sizes UsersWP crops to are set on UsersWP > General > Profile. More about the blocks that show these images: UWP > User Avatar<\/a> and UWP > User Cover Image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Admins can upload or replace a user’s UsersWP profile picture and cover banner from the user’s edit screen in wp-admin. The WordPress Profile Picture field higher up on the same screen is not the UsersWP picture. WordPress takes that one from Gravatar, and UsersWP leaves it alone inside wp-admin. On the front end, UsersWP shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[41,7],"class_list":["post-795","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-how-tos","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}