<p>You want to use the default blank user SVG from the Control Panel on the front-end of the site when there is no photo selected?</p>

<p>If so, it's probably easiest just to copy it from <code>vendor/craftcms/cms/web/assets/cp/dist/images/user.svg</code> to a place in your public HTML folder and reference it there.</p>

<p>Something like:</p>

<pre><code>{% if entry.author.getPhoto() %}
    {{ entry.author.getPhoto().url }}
{% else %}
    {{ url('path/to/user.svg') }}
{% endif %}
</code></pre>

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2018-12-03T01:18:35.863Z
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<p>I'm calling user photo's from my template, but it error's out when trying to obviously call a user photo which is empty. What I'm trying to achieve is </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><em>if there is no user photo, use the default placeholder image craft supplies</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>The problem I'm having trouble getting to the bottom of is, how to access the default user photo?</p>

<pre><code>    &lt;img class="img-fluid rounded-circle" src="{{ entry.author.getPhoto().url }}" width="100" height="100" alt="{{ entry.author }} Picture"&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Any help would be great</p>

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Access Default User Photo
# Access Default User Photo

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-02)

I'm calling user photo's from my template, but it error's out when trying to obviously call a user photo which is empty. What I'm trying to achieve is 

if there is no user photo, use the default placeholder image craft supplies

The problem I'm having trouble getting to the bottom of is, how to access the default user photo?
    

Any help would be great

**Tags:** templating, users

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-12-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

You want to use the default blank user SVG from the Control Panel on the front-end of the site when there is no photo selected?
If so, it's probably easiest just to copy it from vendor/craftcms/cms/web/assets/cp/dist/images/user.svg to a place in your public HTML folder and reference it there.
Something like:
{% if entry.author.getPhoto() %}
    {{ entry.author.getPhoto().url }}
{% else %}
    {{ url('path/to/user.svg') }}
{% endif %}


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