Integration with Ultimate Member plugin?

Hi there,
I haven’t tested my plugin with Ultimate Member and unfortunately, currently I don’t have much time to look into it. If Ultimate Member plugin is doing something to user avatars, maybe try to experiment with my plugin filter priority? Go to my plugin settings and change the Filter priority value from 10 to 9.

WP First Letter Avatar works well with Ultimate Member if you have the right settings.

The issue is that Ultimate Member uses a priority of 99999, so you need to change the Filter priority value to 100000 or higher.

I don’t know if you want gravatars to be working too, though. I have found that you also need to uncheck the Use Gravatar Default: check box to get WP First Letter Avatars to show with Ultimate Member. That suits me fine, because I don’t want to use gravatars, but I realize that it might not suit everyone.

Thanks for the info @kts915! 99999, haha, that’s a nice value!
Well, that’s the problem with using multiple avatar plugins. It is very likely they will get into each other’s way, it all depends on how the plugin is constructed. Sometimes it can be solved by changing the filter priority, but sometimes plugin goes very deep into WordPress mechanisms.

Yes, @dev49.net, it’s clear that the Ultimate Member developers want to be in control of avatars when their plugin is activated!

The UM plugin appears to be constructed in such a way that, unlike other plugins, it won’t allow another one to provide a fall-back or default option if no specific avatar has been uploaded. So you either accept the UM way completely or else completely override it.

Thanks for the heads up, but just to let you know, I gave up on Ultimate Member.

You can’t use Gravatars if you want to use the social login addon. You can either use Gravatars or social profile avatars. Not both. The developers never told me why this is. I’m not sure they know why this is. They gave me a refund.

There are also lots of other incompatibilities. W3 Cache doesn’t work well with UM conditional logic.

Also, UM doesn’t work with single-sign-on providers. I had my developer customise the UM code, and got it working, but eventually decided the plugin was too much hassle.

It’s a shame because despite all this, UM is in my opinion the best of all the third-party WP login providers. However, at the moment, it doesn’t play ball very well with a lot of the established plugins.

@hillofbeans,

Yes, I hear you. I think UM is really designed to be used as a more-or-less standalone plugin.

However, I’d never use it just for its login capabilities. In my view, the best login plugin is actually Clean Login.

I haven’t come across Clean Login, I’ll check it out. Thanks

I’ve heard some good words about Clean Login too. Haven’t used it personally, though.
Regarding Ultimate Member, it really is a powerful plugin, so it doesn’t surprise me it wants to remain in control of everything that is going on.

The issue is that Ultimate Member uses a priority of 99999, so you need to change the Filter priority value to 100000 or higher.

I have the same problem. Where do you make this setting change?

Thanks

Go to Settings -> WP First Letter Avatar.

In the box marked Plugin filter priority Default: 10 change the number to 100000 and hit Save Changes.

You will probably also need to uncheck the Use Gravatar Default: check box.

I had a similar problem.

I made a function to lower the prority of the “Ultimate Member”-Avatar-Function.

add_action( 'init', 'lower_um_avatar_priority' );
function lower_um_avatar_priority() {
	remove_filter('get_avatar', 'um_get_avatar', 99999, 5);
	add_filter('get_avatar', 'um_get_avatar', 4, 5);
}