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It’s not that hard to add user avatars to the activity stream, but it involves core-hacking. So as always, be warned that you won’t be able to update your BP automatically after changing core funcionality.

This takes place in bp-activity-templatetags.php

This is what your could should look like at the moment:

function bp_get_activity_content() {

global $activities_template, $allowed_tags;



if ( bp_is_home() && $activities_template->activity_type == 'personal' ) {

$content = bp_activity_content_filter( $activities_template->activity->content, $activities_template->activity->date_recorded, $activities_template->full_name );

} else {

$activities_template->activity->content = bp_activity_insert_time_since( $activities_template->activity->content, $activities_template->activity->date_recorded );

$content = $activities_template->activity->content;

}



return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', $content );

}

You’ll have to add these two lines of code at the end of the else-part

$content = bp_core_get_avatar($activities_template->activity->user_id) . $content;

return $content;

The first line adds the avatar-image, the second line returns the content.

Second line is necessary because the

return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', $content );

in the last line of the function filters out any images.

Remember: The BP-Devs had something in mind when implementing this functionality, so you may encounter security-risks…