Allow users to upload their own profile pictures (stop forcing Gravatar)

You can also deactivate the Gravatar integration without any plugins or programming. See: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-disable-gravatars-in-wordpress/

There are numerous plugins to enable users to create their own avatars. You can find a selection here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/tags/avatar/

Thanks for you reply.

I’m just noting that your response doesn’t speak to the purpose of the post, i.e., removing the baked in reliance on Gravatar, and/or giving users a built-in option to use the media library instead. This stands.

I wlil respond to your particular points:

You can also deactivate the Gravatar integration without any plugins or programming. See: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-disable-gravatars-in-wordpress/

Not relevant to this post. Post is about using profile pictures, not disabling profile pictures.

There are numerous plugins to enable users to create their own avatars. You can find a selection here:?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/tags/avatar/

Already aware of this. This post is about WordPress core making provision for user profiles using the media library (Gravatar should be an option, not the only built-in way to do this… it’s just silly).

Thanks again for providing some valuable side notes for the meantime!

If you would like a functional change in the core in this regard, you are welcome to create a ticket in the core trac so that the core developers can evaluate and respond: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/newticket