# Willekeurig een avatar toewijzen als profielfoto

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2 oktober 2020 om 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013 "2020-10-02T13:07:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![peterakkies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peterakkies/32/188523_2.png) [@peterakkies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peterakkies)
#### Post date: [2 oktober 2020 om 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/1 "2020-10-02T13:07:40Z")

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Hey folks,

Is there a plugin that has a collection of avatars—graphic, cartoon-like ones—and that can randomly assign one to each user who has not yet uploaded a profile photo?

I find the avatars with just the first letter of the user’s first name pretty boring.

— Peter

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### Author: ![R\_X](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/r_x/32/142155_2.png) [@R\_X](https://meta.discourse.org/u/R_X)
#### Post date: [2 oktober 2020 om 13:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/2 "2020-10-02T13:33:50Z")

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You can upload photos to be random set. Check settings

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### Author: ![peterakkies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peterakkies/32/188523_2.png) [@peterakkies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peterakkies)
#### Post date: [2 oktober 2020 om 13:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/3 "2020-10-02T13:53:42Z")

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Cool! I didn’t know that. Thank you.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4 oktober 2020 om 01:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/4 "2020-10-04T01:08:46Z")

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Do we have a howto topic on this @rishabh? Maybe we should have one? 🤔

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### Author: ![P2W](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/p2w/32/304345_2.png) [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [4 oktober 2020 om 01:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/6 "2020-10-04T01:58:01Z")

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Please do! I’d love to tinker with

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### Author: ![rishabh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rishabh/32/179446_2.png) [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [5 oktober 2020 om 07:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/randomly-assigning-an-avatar-as-profile-photo/166013/7 "2020-10-05T07:36:28Z")

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> [@Selectable avatars](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-avatars/92656):
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> Avatars are a big part of anyone’s online identity. Discourse already supports 3 options when it comes to avatars: based on the first letter of your username, your Gravatar or any images you want to upload. But what if you want to provide your users with a limited set of avatars to choose from? It’s now possible thanks to the “selectable avatars” feature! As an admin, if you click Edit next to the selectable avatars site setting, a modal will pop up and ask you to start uploading ava…

We already have a detailed #feature:announcements topic for it, thanks to @zogstrip - should I edit it slightly and move it over to #howto?

> [@peterakkies](#):
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> Is there a plugin that has a collection of avatars—graphic, cartoon-like ones—and that can randomly assign one to each user who has not yet uploaded a profile photo?

@P2W, have a look at [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-avatars/92656/12) to set up a randomly-assigned, default avatar set.
