[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

I’m just listing a possible solution.

If you’re not satisfied, please post a new enhancement ticket on Trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Login with the same credentials you use here on bp.org.

Or you can also contact Andy Peatling (author of the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin):
https://buddypress.org/community/members/apeatling/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Did you add a “buddypress” tag to your theme’s stylesheet?

eg.

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress Dusk
Theme URI: http://example.org/themes/dusk/
Description: Dark theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: John Doe
Author URI: http://example.org/
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-column, grey, dark
*/

Notice the “buddypress” tag.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Bookmarked!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

You need a “global $bp;” call if you’re going to be checking for the displayed user’s ID.

Also you might want to add the filter on $avatar_dir just in case anyone is overriding it!

$avatar_dir = 'avatars';
$avatar_dir = apply_filters( 'bp_core_avatar_dir', $avatar_dir, $object );

Give it a shot!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Erich, have you tried adding some code to your child theme’s header.php?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

If you check the code that you just posted by itself, you’re missing a bunch of variables like $avatar_dir, $item_id, $object, which is why your code isn’t working.

Just declare them manually:
$avatar_dir = ‘avatars’;
$item_id = THE USER ID YOU’RE CHECKING
$object = ‘user’;

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

What would be better is if you created a page with video and tutorials, then you could use something like this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-44729

Just change bp_core_redirect() to the page you want to redirect your users to if they’re not logged in.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

@moddedlife – Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-41850

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Do you have $avatar_folder_dir defined?
You’ll also have to make modifications on the code you copied over from bp-core-avatars.php.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Unfortunately, this is a known bug:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2055

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

How did you install the plugin?

Can you try removing BuddyPress and re-uploading the files manually via https://buddypress.org/download ?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

You’re talking about on buddypress.org, correct?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

You’ll have to manually remove the “forums” tab from the theme’s header.php.

Also, I see that you simply copied over the default theme to your themes directory. Please create a child theme to make your changes. Read the linked article to find out why!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

@dfcppnfounder – Your directory structure should look like this – “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/”. BP files reside in this folder and not in “wp-content/plugins”.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Check out how BP checks for avatar folders in /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php.

If you need some additional help, let us know.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

I just replied to a topic about Virtual Multiblog. It treats each WP blog separately – including userbase, themes, plugins, login. So you could potentially have multiple, separate BP installs running on one set of WordPress files.

It does require a little knowledge of symlinks and vhosts, also not sure how things like the new multi-site functionality in WP 3.0 will work with Virtual Multiblog… but it’s an alternative!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

There’s currently no way that BP can tell if you’ve uploaded an avatar for the first time.

Actually, there is one way… BP never deletes any avatars! So you could potentially check the avatars folder and see if a user_id folder exists. If it doesn’t exist the user has never uploaded an avatar before.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Virtual multiblog is in a way like MU, but different; MU shares the userbase, themes and plugins, while VMU treats each install totally separate.

The reason why BP doesn’t really work with VMU is BP requires pretty permalinks and alterations to the .htaccess file; VMU doesn’t like plugins that try to modify the .htaccess file.

You might be able to get away with the following tip about custom permalinks in VMU on different VMU blogs:
http://striderweb.com/wp-content/multiblog/multiblog-readme.htm#permalinks

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Hmm… you shouldn’t need to add this to /bp-themes/bp-default/, if you upgrade, you’ll lose your changes. Try using the same snippets in Cosmic Buddy’s functions.php and header.php.

Anyway, Cosmic Buddy is not a child theme of the BP default theme, so I don’t see why it would work if you paste it in /bp-themes/bp-default/.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

@jeffsayre – the bp.org reviews are separate from the wp.org plugin reviews; not sure if this is the original intention

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Just tried it on my install and it works.

Can you paste the full contents of your functions.php on Pastebin?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

@foxly – Come into the #buddypress-dev irc room on Freenode and let the team know what you have in mind!

You can also use a java web version of IRC if you don’t have a client:
http://java.freenode.net/?channel=buddypress-dev

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Have you guys tried setting your permalinks to something other than the default?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_SubPanel

When you’ve tried a different setting, also see if a .htaccess file is generated in your WordPress root directory.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

@jbarr – I linked to a solution above. Please take a look and try it out! Paste the snippet in your theme’s functions.php file.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 6 months ago]

Try this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/avatar-cropping-after-upload-image-and-cropper-dont-appear-fails/#post-43770