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We have not ported this plugin, nor are there any plans to do so. We only support using a Joomla Fields in the user profile as the source of the avatar with a fallback to Gravatar.

You should talk to the EasySocial people. They should either implement their own field plugin or let you sync the avatar with a field in the user profile. That's the preferred way to provide additional user profile information in Joomla 3.7 and newer.

The old plugin — still available in ATS 4 — will NOT work with ATS 5, even if you update its code. As I told you, we changed how avatars work in ATS 5. We no longer go through plugins.

You would have to do two layout overrides.

• administrator/components/com_ats/layouts/akeeba/ats/common/user.php => administrator/templates/YOUR_BACKEND_TEMPLATE/html/layouts/akeeba/ats/common/user.php
• components/com_ats/layouts/akeeba/ats/common/user.php => templates/YOUR_FRONTEND_TEMPLATE/html/layouts/akeeba/ats/common/user.php

In both files find the line

$avatarUrl = Avatar::getUserAvatar($user_id, $avatarSize);

Change it to read

if (class_exists(\ES::class)) {
	$easyUser = ES::user($user->id);
	$avatarUrl = $easyUser->getAvatar();
}
$avatarUrl = $avatarUrl ?? Avatar::getUserAvatar($user_id, $avatarSize);

This would use the EasySocial avatar instead of whatever else you have configured in ATS.

Again, this is not an ideal solution. The best solution would be for EasySocial to provide a Field plugin for Joomla.