Thank you for your help, my problem has been solved. For anyone else who may be following this, it turns that displaying the avatar is tied to email, so if you’re setting up accounts without emails, it won’t work.

I’m bumping this again because I replied to your email indicating that you did not address my problem but the issue was closed anyway. I’m seeing that at least one other person on this forum is having the same issue.

Again, my problem is that theme is displaying the default, fallback image for users rather than the user’s chosen avatar. If this is an issue that you cannot address, perhaps this plugin should be removed from the list of plugins known to be compatible with the theme?

This is the same problem I am having, but they closed my request without fixing the issue!

I have sent you the email as instructed. Thank you for your help with this!

Sorry. The way the WP User Avatar plugin works, you can set a fallback image to display whenever a particular user does not have an avatar set. In this case, this user *does* have an avatar set, but the fallback image is displaying instead (and this is the case for every test user I’ve created and added an avatar to). Since the plugin seems to work correctly without the Newspaper theme, I’m wondering if there’s an incorrect hook or something somewhere in the theme causing the fallback image to display instead of the user’s image. Since this plugin is listed as being compatible, I was just wondering if anyone else had come across this yet.