BuddyPress

I have just noticed since upgrading to 1.2.6 that in my activity stream next to a notification of a new post there is now a generic avatar??? Is that right or am I going mad and has it always been there? I really don’t remember seeing it though! If it is a new feature of BP where can I change the avatar to something better?
Thanks

some changes added to the avatars in the activity stream

http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2578

though i don’t know if related to this problem… what notification? screenshot?

@nuprn1
Hi Rich,
Here’s a link to the activity stream on a site I am starting to build

http://www.actonthis.co/activity/

Notice the avatar next to the updates that mention a new post. There is now a generic avatar next to them???

[deleted]

@rogercoathup weird isn’t it Roger! Surely we can change them somewhere if they have decided to put them in?

you can remove it via the filter bp_get_activity_secondary_avatar

or even better just remove this filter that is used in the functions.php
remove_filter( 'bp_get_activity_action_pre_meta', 'bp_dtheme_activity_secondary_avatars', 10, 2 );

@rogercoathup – no idea… seems if a trac report is submitted the request is made if possible. (maybe not enough discussion is made in the ticket comments to counter – generally speaking for any enhancement)

I don’t think it’s unfair that we revise the theme and any of the bundled widgets with each release. We need to be able to iterate on all areas of the theme (and other presentational elements) in order to continue to improve and add new features to BuddyPress. As Rich says, to remove the secondary avatar, put this into your functions.php:


remove_filter( 'bp_get_activity_action_pre_meta', 'bp_dtheme_activity_secondary_avatars', 10, 2 );


@DJPaul I don’t mind them being there Paul I just wondered if we could change them anywhere to fit with the theme of our sites?

@djpaul

OK, apology in order – my temperature sizzled, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were being added in the core, and not as a filter in the default theme (which is a damn good place for them!).

Now, if only you could tear half the other activity presentation stuff out of the core – or leastways create some more granular template tags / functions – so that we’re not stuck PHP unlocking those monolithic activity strings. That would be really lovely.

Apologies again, bit of humble pie for me, and @nuprn1 .. thanks for pointing out the filter

@rogercoathup
No harm done If you, or anyone else who works with BuddyPress themes, have issues like this with the template tags, and would like them done in a different way, I’d love to see an enhancement ticket filed on trac.buddypress.org with an example of what you’d like it to work like. Make up function names, etc.

It’s much easier to implement something you’d love rather than something we’d love

Better that individuals don’t just pile in to trac adding enhancement tickets wily nily for this sort of area. We need a task group set up to tackle this that looks at what is required, and draws up a list of things to tackle, template tags that are needed etc.

@djpaul -

Can we happily run the 1.2.5.2 default theme (and children thereof) on the 1.2.6 core? Thereby allowing all our existing child themes to continue to behave the same without any mods at all?

And, as a corollary to this… is there an install option for 1.2.6 that won’t overwrite the 1.2.5.2 theme (other than copying it somewhere pre-install, and then re-instating)?

I really like that we’re now showing the group avatars in the activity stream updates. But I’ve noticed a “bug” in the Recent Site Wide Posts widget.

As you can see the blogs are just showing random avatars and aren’t showing the users’ avatars like 1.2.5 used to. Any ideas?

It’s not a question of whether you like it or not, the problem is that it breaks the design of existing sites – because their themes are using bp-default as a ‘much touted future proof’ parent theme.

You expect bug and compatibility fixes in a theme upgrade, not presentation and design changes.

If you’re changing the actual design, you’d expect that in a new theme. Much as you’ll expect WordPress to release 2011, and not simply overwrite 2010 with something different that changes the look of every child theme based on it.

Here’s another discrepancy in the activity stream: