Initials Avatar

[FincaUrbanaApp]

Good afternoon.

How can I make django-avatar generate a circular avatar with the user's initials using the InitialsAvatarProvider(object) provider?

I have studied the code but I cannot implement the get_avatar_url method of that provider InitialsAvatarProvider.

Thank you so much.

[StanislavJPG]

@FincaUrbanaApp, Hi! have you figured it out?

[christianwgd]

The documented method for changing the avatar provider is to put the provider class into the settings:

AVATAR_PROVIDERS = ( "avatar.providers.InitialsAvatarProvider", "avatar.providers.DefaultAvatarProvider", )

You can even create your own provider class and configure it in the same way, maybe because you would like to have the InitialsProvider as some backup provider.

[StanislavJPG]

@christianwgd, thanks :)

[danilo-botelho]

InitialsAvatarProvider seems not to be documented and is also missing size value in the context passed to the template (avatar/initials.html).

I can't make it display correctly. Am I missing something here?

The use of user.first_name and user.last_name is also a potential problem (it is to me) since not everybody uses that pattern around the globe.