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Hey, looks like a novel approach — I’ll have a play when you get the plugin out

If you’re trying to pull just the avatar from within a loop, this shows how to do that:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-a-gallery-of-members-avatars-in-buddypress/

If you’re trying to pull up someone’s avatar simply by ID, use bp_core_fetch_avatar() like this:

`
<?php
global $bp;
$the_avatar = $bp->displayed_user->id; //you’d put in whatever function you’re using to get the ID here, assign it to a variable
echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( ‘item_id=’.$the_avatar );
?>
`

Look up bp_core_fetch_avatar() as there are a lot more options than this. For example, do you want a thumbnail or full sized image? There is a way to specify. Hope that helps!!

Exactly what is your AJAX returning? Is the first part (span.searchheading) coming through OK?

You might try (just for the heck of it) switching your argument structure to an array, something like this:
echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'item_id' => $row ) );

Theoretically, it shouldn’t matter, but sometimes it does.

If you’re still having troubles, start dropping var_dump() statements into bp_core_fetch_avatar() itself. You can find that function in bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php.

You can easily change the default avatar in your dashboard under BuddyPress > General Settings. The reason it doesn’t use the WordPress avatar setting is because BuddyPress is designed to be it’s own site with it’s own settings. If you want to disable gravatar support completely you can set no_grav to true in your theme’s bp_core_fetch_avatar function calls. This will be made even easier when 1.3 is released.

BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH is used during the initial upload. However, during the cropping phrase, this original image is deleted.

It would be possible to do what you’re asking, but it would entail hooking into the avatar cropping process (so the original image isn’t removed) and filtering bp_core_fetch_avatar() to grab this original image when you want to call it.

Hope you do well with this, I would also be interested in using this.

I’m sure many others would too!

Hi I am looking to utilise something like this. Any progress?
thanks

Check out the “bp_core_mysteryman_src” and “bp_core_fetch_avatar” filters located in /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php.

This article details a little bit of how to do it:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/

@grimbog: This is interesting. Hope to hear good news soon.

@rogerwhitson – In response to this, you add the bp_core_fetch_avatar() function in your recent post loop.

It would look something like this:

` $user_id ) ); ?>`

I’m guessing that the recent posts loop is a widget; you’d have to add the code above into the widget’s code somewhere.

You would also have to pass the $user_id properly in the loop.

hi
here is the solution for getting the avatar image url
bp_core_fetch_avatar(array(‘item_id’ => $other_user, ‘type’ => ‘thumb’, ‘width’ => 32, ‘height’ => 32, ‘class’ => ‘friend-avatar’,’html’=>false));

html = false

Wait… do you mean a subnav? Like for instance, under profile, the subtabs are “Edit Profile, and Change Cignature?”

Could be done, wrap the bp_core_new_subnav_item call in a function which is hooked on xprofile_setup_nav action;

`/* Add the subnav items */
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘position’ => 10, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘friends-my-friends’ ) );
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Requests (%d)‘, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_friend_get_total_requests_count() ), ‘slug’ => ‘requests’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_requests’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘user_has_access’ => bp_is_my_profile() ) );

if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->friends->slug ) {
if ( bp_is_my_profile() ) {
$bp->bp_options_title = __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ );
} else {
$bp->bp_options_avatar = bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $bp->displayed_user->id, ‘type’ => ‘thumb’ ) );
$bp->bp_options_title = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;
}`

There ya go, 2 in one!

That’s the WP version of grabbing the avatar.

You can also try the BuddyPress way:
`echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $id, ‘width’ => $width, ‘height’ => $height ) );`

A list of full parameters can be found by looking at the source:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L50

@boonebgorges

I am a complete newbie when it comes to this. I tried to utilize the funciton you created above and it results in an error: Unexpected return.

I imagine I am missing something obvious but here is my code:
`function my_blog_avatar_1( $old_avatar ) {
bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => ‘1’, ‘type’ => $type, ‘alt’ => $alt, ‘width’ => $width, ‘height’ => $height, ‘class’ => $class ) ) // Do some stuff to get the avatar you want, then
return $new_avatar;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_blog_avatar_1?, ‘my_blog_avatar_1’ );`

Thanks in advance for your help.

Pass the user id as the “item_id” parameter in bp_core_fetch_avatar().

This function is located in /bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php.

@grimbog

Was there any progress on this? I was interested in the same thing, whether if it’s code or an actual plugin.

Thanks!

You will have te create a custom function, either in your theme’s functions.php or in plugins/bp-custom.php, that filters the output of that function and replaces it with the avatar of your choice. Eg, if your blog_id is 5,
‘function my_blog_avatar( $old_avatar ) {
// Do some stuff to get the avatar you want, then
return $new_avatar;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_blog_avatar_5’, ‘my_blog_avatar’ );`

The ‘do some stuff’ part will depend highly on your setup. If by ‘the associated group’ you mean that you are using bp-groupblog, then you will likely have to do some direct queries of the groupmeta database table to find the group that is associated with a particular blog (I don’t think that the plugin stores that info in a place that is easily accessible by blog_id). Then you will use some permutation of bp_core_fetch_avatar() to pull up the avatar for that group_id.

Good luck!

Hi @BuddyPresser,

I would like to add to Javier’s @arques post above. His method does work but it’s missing the initial sign-up screen where gravatar is being pulled. I also rewrote his path a bit. This should do the trick for killing all Gravatar calls. If someone has more time than I it would be great to have this in plugin form. Here is the code:

`
function bp_remove_gravatar ($image, $params, $item_id, $avatar_dir, $css_id, $html_width, $html_height, $avatar_folder_url, $avatar_folder_dir) {

$default = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .’/_inc/images/bp_default_avatar.jpg’;

if( $image && strpos( $image, “gravatar.com” ) ){

return ‘‘;
} else {
return $image;

}

}
add_filter(‘bp_core_fetch_avatar’, ‘bp_remove_gravatar’, 1, 9 );

function remove_gravatar ($avatar, $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt) {

$default = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .’/_inc/images/bp_default_avatar.jpg’;
return ““;
}

add_filter(‘get_avatar’, ‘remove_gravatar’, 1, 5);

function bp_remove_signup_gravatar ($image) {

$default = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .’/_inc/images/bp_default_avatar.jpg’;

if( $image && strpos( $image, “gravatar.com” ) ){

return ‘‘;
} else {
return $image;
}

}
add_filter(‘bp_get_signup_avatar’, ‘bp_remove_signup_gravatar’, 1, 1 );
`

The image that I am referencing doesn’t have to be a JPG. The size is 150×150. You may have to adjust the file name and/or path to your liking.

Thanks @arques for the initial code!

If you need to stay on BP 1.2.4, you could probably just copy the part of the bp_core_fetch_avatar() function that adds support for the ‘html’ parameter… but I’d strongly suggest upgrading when you have the chance.

See the codex article on upgrading:
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/upgrading-buddypress/

Try this:
`bp_core_fetch_avatar( ‘html=false’ );`

Be sure to check out the full parameters for the function in bp-core-avatars.php.