How to get user profile image URL in WordPress

In this post, you will find a step-by-step process that will retrieve the user profile image URL in WordPress.

The common way to get the image uses the get_avatar function.

The function itself returns an HTML IMG tag which makes it hard to customize.

But having a profile picture link enables to set the user’s image as a background picture.

And it is simple to customize the image.

In fact, you will be able to set the image width.

WordPress function for avatar URL.

It is the get_avatar_url function that retrieves the author image URL without HTML image tags.

get_avatar_url takes the user id as an argument to return a required avatar link of the author.

The WordPress framework provides the author id using get_the_author_meta.

$theAuthorId = get_the_author_meta('ID');

$getUserUrl = get_avatar_url ($theAuthorId);

A function can set the image size.

The size value is defined in the array by an element with a key of ‘size’.

The array forms a second argument in the get_avatar_url function.

$getUserUrl = get_avatar_url($theAuthorId, array ('size' => 500));