Custom Profile Picture: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Custom Profile Picture still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

Updated recently. The last release was 4 months ago.
Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Custom Profile Picture alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Author Profiles & Bio Boxes. Custom Profile Picture itself ranks #46 of 53. How plugins are grouped.

#1

Simple Author Box

simple-author-box 90K installs · 4.3 stars #2

User Profile Picture

metronet-profile-picture 40K installs · 4.6 stars #3

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors

publishpress-authors 20K installs · 4.9 stars #3

Standing

More installed than 76.7% of the directory

Ahead of 36,610 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

76.7% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

36,610 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

11,123 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

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