[jbrandsma]

I am wondering this as well! I would like for people to message any member of the entire platform – not just their friends!

[jbrandsma]

Welp, I couldn’t wait so I just spent hours trying to figure this out – with SUCCESS. If anyone stumbles upon this, here is the code I placed in my theme’s function.php file.

function jb_get_bp_user_avatar($avatar, $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt)
{
if (is_numeric($id_or_email)) {
$id = (int) $id_or_email;
$user = get_user_by(‘id’, $id);
} elseif (is_object($id_or_email)) {
if (!empty($id_or_email->user_id)) {
$id = (int) $id_or_email->user_id;
$user = get_user_by(‘id’, $id);
}
} else {
$user = get_user_by(’email’, $id_or_email);
}
if ($user && is_object($user)) {
$avatar = bp_core_fetch_avatar(array(‘item_id’ => $user->ID));
}
return $avatar;
}
add_filter(‘get_avatar’, ‘jb_get_bp_user_avatar’, 10000, 5);