I just want that users who have uploaded a cropped photo or avatar via buddypress should be able to show the same in all posts and comments across blog posts in wordpress mu. Those who have no such upload or are non-registered commentators should have gravatars. I wish this was an easy option automatically available.

If there is any plugin that lets wordpress mu users to upload cropped avatar to show in buddypress too, that will also do. At present the two plugins wpmuavatars and add-local-avatar are broken, the later one gives complete error with latest versions of buddypress and wordpress mu.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 6 months ago]

If you activated BuddyPress sitewide, this should work across all sites.

[@kaberi Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Buddypress is activated sitewide. User uploaded photos show up across all activity streams. Except in wordpress mu blog posts and comments. Not sure whether this is a problem with the latest Buddypress.
Are you using the latest buddypress ?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 6 months ago]

I’m running BP 1.2.4.1 and it’s working for me.

[@kaberi Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Hmmm … I have other buddypress and wordpress mu plug ins, not much but few.
When I downgrade to Version 1.2.3 of buddypress things work okay.
But using the 1.2.4.1 version causes problem. Did they introduce some bug somewhere ? ( Maddening for me!)

Have you got a working site with BOTH buddypress 1.2.4.1 and WordPress -mu-2.9.2 ? Any web link please ?

[@kaberi Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Retested and retested. With 1.2.3 things okay … with 1.2.4.1 user uploaded photos show in bp activity streams etc BUT NOT wordpress mu posts eg. comment posts

[@pauld123 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Kaberi,

Same problem here. Has anyone got any idea how this might be solved? Everything else seems to be working perfectly.

Perhaps there is a setting somewhere I have not got right, but given you testing, seems that it is not me or my settings.

Love BuddyPress but this is quite a big issue IMHO, any suggestions to solve it would be warmly welcomed.

Paul

PS Am using subdomains for guest blogs, could that be the issue?

[@terryhallbiz Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@r-a-y I have BP on several installs of WPMu (all latest versions) with the same results. http://terryhall.biz (root site) & http://wp4seo.com (secondary site) – the avatars are not active links but the user name has a link ~ http://geeky.terryhall.biz/author/mrcleam which is not pulling avatar from http://terryhall.biz/members/mrclean –
Comment avatars are working. This was not a problem in BP 1.2.3 ~ is the “bp_root_blog” a new feature? Seems to be related to capability….

[@kaberi Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@MrD
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2426
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/is-there-any-critical-risk-or-any-other-problem-if-the-previous-bp-core-avatars-php-is-used/#post-new

[@pauld123 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks Kaberi,

You are doing a great job chasing this down. I will try using the older file although there must surely be some knock on affects that we are unaware of yet. Will try it now.

It is kind of mission critical because the whole blog thing is clearly not working from a user perspective.

Thanks again.

Paul.

PS The old version of bp-core-avatars.php seems to do the trick – thank you for that. Have not noticed any drawbacks yet but there must be some. Hopefully a fix for the new file will appear. In the meantime, thank you again.

[@kburnett Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

I am also having this problem and I see no new information. Is there a fix?

[@sortofme Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

ehh.. still no fix for this??
WP3.0.4
BP 1.2.7
BP-default-child theme
And I have the same issue// seems more erratic though… some users display correctly

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve been having vanishing avatar issues over the past couple of days, and a little research points to a possibility that in some instances BP is generating bad avatar paths, not relative to the root of the site. I found this, it provided a fix, and might help some of you: http://theandystratton.com/2010/buddypress-avatars-not-displaying-with-wordpress-3-0/

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

Scrap that. The fix is only superficial. It fixed user avatars, but destroyed every other type.

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

Solved my issue. It turned out to be related to directory permissions, and pilot error in not noticing my user avatar directory chmod changed to 755 when overwritten from a local > remote upload. Avatar directories have to be write-enabled for avatars to display… Hope this helps someone.