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Hi,
There is a filter code already written to modify this:

return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_avatar', bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(
			'item_id' => $item_id,
			'object'  => $object,
			'type'    => $type,
			'alt'     => $alt,
			'class'   => $class,
			'width'   => $width,
			'height'  => $height,
			'email'   => $email
		) ) );

You can use this filter to write your own code to modify the class parameter.

Thanks

Just tested it, create a bp-custom.php in your plugins directory and add the following:

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', 'http://example.com/default-avatar.jpg' );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'http://example.com/default-avatar-thumb.jpg' );

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

Digging into it a bit more, it seems gravatars influences it. You can disable the gravatars like so

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

followed by using your original code

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', 'http://example.com/default-avatar.jpg' );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'http://example.com/default-avatar-thumb.jpg' );

Hi I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but if you’re looking to get the profile image associated with a group or user, you can use the avatar-fetching function that BP uses in its templates, bp_core_fetch_avatar():
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.3/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L99

As an example, you might use

bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(
			'item_id' => $user_id,
			'type'    => 'thumb',
			'width'   => false,
			'height'  => false,
			'html'    => true,
			'alt'     => sprintf( __( 'Profile picture of %s', 'buddypress' ), 'user name' )
) );

Hi @VentureCore-

It seems like you can make avatars work remotely. Check bp_core_fetch_avatar() for some filter opportunities. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L98

I’ve not done what you’re trying to do, but it seems that the filter points bp_core_avatar_folder_url, bp_core_avatar_folder_dir could be useful, but there’s a filter on the final result at bp_core_fetch_avatar for the “html” output version and bp_core_fetch_avatar_url for just the url.

Cover images should actually be easier to manage. Take a look in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-attachments.php#L28

Alternatively, you could filter the other plugin to ignore avatar and cover image requests. Lots of ways to solve this, I’d bet.

Hey,

The fix for that is coming in the next release of buddy press. Or at least for the part of the problem.

You most likely get 50% of your problem from these two in my case with 6k users these amounted to the respective query execution times (from new relic), I also run buddypress + rtmedia (which is the source of this problem) as described in this ticket:

bp_friends_prime_mentions_results() – Used by the Activity component’s @mentions to print a JSON list of the current user’s friends.

bp_friends_prime_mentions_results – 10,000+ ms
bp_core_fetch_avatar – 6,000+ ms

Here’s a fix:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11561

You’ll still likely stay with this massive query even for logged out users:
WP_User_Query::query on average right now it’s at around 7,500ms.

Good news is that with HHVM site runs much faster due to object caching straight after enabling it.

I’ve also played around with various hosts, flywheel & wpengine sucked. What works well is Kinsta with HHVM enabled, they can also check your database and help you move to InnoDB if you’re using another one.

Anyway man hope this helps.

Best,

M.

define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB’, $img_url );

This was not working for me either, in the end this combination did. Turning off gravatar (first filter), and then a default bp image filter.

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );
add_filter( 'bp_core_default_avatar_user', 'override_default_avatar', 10, 2 );
function override_default_avatar( $default, $params ) {
	if ( !empty($params) ) {
		if ( 'thumb' == $params['type'] ) {
			return  get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/img/avatar-thumb.jpg'; 
		} 
	}
	return  get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/img/avatar.jpg'; 
}

Several topics are related to your question on the forum.

https://buddypress.org/support/search/bp_core_fetch_avatar/

So what you’re looking for is to use a custom user avatar instead of BuddyPress’?

Try the following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php or wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

remove_filter( 'get_avatar', 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_filter', 10, 6 );

Update – That code snippet only reverts the avatar in WordPress posts and comments.

To override BuddyPress avatars in BuddyPress content with a custom avatar solution, you would have to hook into the 'bp_core_fetch_avatar' filter:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.3/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?marks=534-549#L534

You could be using the thumb sized avatar. Check your theme to make sure the full sized image is being used. bp_core_fetch_avatar() is the function used by BuddyPress to display avatars but there’s also get_avatar() so check for that too (it’s a WordPress function).

See if this helps. http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/2.4.3/functions/bp_core_fetch_avatar/

Hi @etavio

Your custom plugin is most likely filtering get_avatar to display your custom images. BuddyPress actually bypasses that filter through the use of bp_core_fetch_avatar().

Ref: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/master/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L192

You will need to use a different filter.

Hi,

default avatar is ‘gravatar’ ‘s mytery man. To use your own avatar, you have to deactivate gravatar in addition to constant. Try this in bp-custom.php

add_filter('bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true');
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'YOURIMAGEURL' );

If it’s a BuddyPress page then I guess the bp_core_fetch_avatar() function should display the local avatar if no Grav exists. Are you saying this doesn’t happen?

You could disable Gravatar?

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

bp_core_default_avatar_user will fire only if you have disabled Gravatar via the bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav hook.

We do not store avatar data in the database.

We do a look up at the files level instead.

If you want to show an avatar based on a custom avatar stored in the database, you’ll need to use the 'bp_core_fetch_avatar' filter to override how BuddyPress shows avatars:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.4.0/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?marks=531-546,660-664#L531

If you just want to display a user avatar, use the bp_core_fetch_avatar() function:

echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(
    'item_id' => USER_ID_TO_GRAB_AVATAR_FOR
) );