How To Change Author & Comment Box Gravatar/Avatar Image Size

Need to change the size of your Gravatar image in your author box? If you’re using the fanciest author box plugin, here’s a short and easy tutorial about how to change your author avatar size.

First, you need to edit line 16 in /includes/ts-fab-construct-tabs.php. It says this, you just need to change the number (64) into whatever you want avatar size to be in pixels:

$authorimg = get_avatar( $author->ID, 64, '', esc_attr( $author->display_name ) );

Then, in you child theme’s style.css file, add this (presuming you want to set avatar to be 96 pixels:

.ts-fab-avatar { width: 96px !important; height: 96px !important; }
.ts-fab-text { margin-left: 120px !important; }

The left margin for .ts-fab-text should be your avatar size plus the spacing between avatar and the text, in this case spacing would be 24 pixels.

Change Comment Gravatar Size Genesis

If you don’t use the Fanciest author box plugin and simply want to increase the size of your Gravatar using the Genesis design framework, you can use this code.

Add this code at the end of your child themes functions.php file using a text editor like Notepad++.