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There is no selling or ripping of credits.The CSS header and all the comments still state “Originally done by, modified and changed by”
What you stated makes me look like I am taking the work for my own, when in fact I am sticking with GPL and still giving credit where required.

it does, in my mind – I would rather have it associated with the theme name I gave it so that people who are looking at the backed see my “branding” as you put it, instead of the default. In no way am I trying to say – I created this.

Also from my experimenting bp_ has to stay it calls core functions from the plugin. where as buddypress went and became social

@r-a-y I tried that with no luck.

i am adding the page by going to the pages section in the dashboard and simply adding a new page. In the html for that page i embed a php file. That makes the php page independent of buddypress.

I guess a better way of looking at it would be, if i accessed an independant php page, how could i make it return the user id of buddypress.

i created a buddypress page and that page embeds a php file to display, for testing purposes i just want that to display the users id. the file is called myphp.php and i have it in the buddypress directory.

im new to php so i’m not sure how to do this. i feel like im supposed to include one of buddypress’s php files in order to call the function.

so to answer your question, i guess neither?

Yes as Brandon says

The solution is to add

define( ’BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );

to the top of the define list in the wp-config.php file. Fixed for things like john.smith not sure about other characters.

Thanks Brandon – though I figured it out a wee while ago from a similar problem posted in BuddyPress Trac.

Oh wow, this is GREAT News!
Thank you Boone for addressing this issue, it was really frustrating.

I tried implementing the patch, but there are 2 files I can’t find (bp-members/bp-members-functions.php) & (bp-members/bp-members-template.php). I don’t even have these directories in my version of BuddyPress.

I am using Buddypress 1.2.8

Am I missing something?

@djpaul: Thanks Paul, I would really appreciate any thoughts and feedback when its out, as I can imagine the coding will be a little hazy in places. Should be fairly easy to understand though.

Good news all… I’ve finally got this working as intended, and I’m currently in the process of packing it all together in to a plugin for release to the community over the next few days. Just creating a small webpage where people can download it, and I’ll hopefully have an online user guide.

Screenshot:
http://www.obscuresounds.com/obscureavatar-beta.jpg

For now it works like this:

1. designers can create transparent png “parts” of an avatar divided in to 3 sections (body, face, head).
2. the plugin can differentiate between male and female by parsing in a string (m, or f), so again designers can create gender specific avatars based on needs.
3. users who upload avatars via BP will bypass obscureavatars, and the plugin will only use gravatar as a last resort for groups, and blogs.
4. it works for both wordpress, and buddypress.

Essentially it sets out to do what I’ve wanted – to make the avatars a bit easier to work with for designers. Although I mainly develop backend stuff I love UI design, and one thing I’ve noticed is that pretty much all wordpress projects either use gravatars tacky generated content, or the dull wordpress avatar. Not only that but they fail to facilitate basic gender styles, which is essential for social network propagation now-days.

I want to continue developing this in to something more sophisticated (I’m thinking it would be cool if designers could zip their parts in to packs, so that people can interchange them in an instant), but I will only be able to do this based on its popularity and support.

I have just talked to 1&1. They told me that the memory tricks don’t work and that I am not allowed to do that. And if I want to solve that problem I can change to a better product with more memory, the new and more expensive ones have 60 and 90MB.
The thing is that I have no clue how much memory I need… I want to install buddypress and create some profiles. The web is going to be a city guide for Madrid with reviews and photos.

Do you know if 60 MB or 90MB is enough?? Any other hosting supporting WordPress, MySQL databases, more memory and a reasobale price?

Thanks