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@vapvarun I’m not recognizing any of the filters containing resize_args from the posted code snippet, do they ring a bell with you? Also, I think there is some misunderstanding about Avatars and Cover Images, i.e., the process thereof. I’m also thinking instead of all this coding requirement for end users, maybe a configuration screen would help facilitate the setting of the various parameters.

Furthermore, we (BP Team) should revisit this process because it is not possible to regenerate the Avatars or Cover Images because, I believe, the original images are deleted. Thoughts?

@whyknott There are no CONSTANTS specific to Group Avatars; meaning an Avatar is an Avatar, regardless if it is used as a User Avatar or a Group Avatar, they just reside in different directories/folders. Additionally, there are 11 CONSTANTS that are associated with Avatar (if my count is accurate), you may find them in a list, along with other BP related CONSTANTS at the following URL:

BuddyPress Constants

As to setting the “quality” level for when a resize is triggered, I’ll have to get back to you after I confirm that the filter you should be using for resize ‘quality’, does what it should. However, I need to build a tool to grab the resized image before it gets deleted, so that I can verify the ‘quality” level.

To validate file type fields before saving to the database, ensure you are using the correct hook and validation logic. The xprofile_data_before_save hook is intended for profile data in BuddyPress, but your issue might be with the validation function itself. Verify that your validate_required_unshared_fields function is properly defined and hooked. Additionally, check that you are correctly accessing and validating the file type fields within this function. Ensure your function looks something like this:

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function validate_required_unshared_fields($field) {
// Add your validation logic here
if (/* validation fails */) {
// Handle validation failure
}
}
add_action(‘xprofile_data_before_save’, ‘validate_required_unshared_fields’);
Make sure to replace the placeholder comments with your actual validation logic.

We have a fix in progress: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9221

Currently, there isn’t any updated documentation regarding Avatar’s. There is some outdated info/documentation which is missing some information and is inaccurate with other information. A goal of the BuddyPress Team (BP) is to make documentation available that is current and accurate. That stated this will be on my TODO list to release documentation regarding Avatars, although what I’m covering here would be considered a “developer” handbook chapter.

In the meantime, there are a number of CONSTANTS that define the size (Width x Height) of various aspects of an Avatar, some of which you already know. There are other parameters that specify the “quality” during a resize and/or cropping process and these processes utilize WordPress to accomplish these tasks.

For example the CONSTANT – BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH – default set to 450 – triggers a resize of an uploaded image that exceeds the size defined by this CONSTANT at a “quality” level of 90 (default). In your case, the 610 x 610 image is resized to 450 x 450 at a “quality” level of 90. Assuming defaults for thumb (50) and full (150) the image (450 x 450 @ 90) is cropped based on the cropping boundary box to the sizes for thumb and full at a “quality” level of 82 (default). In this example, your 610 x 610 image has undergone 2 processes that has reduced the “quality” twice.

To mitigate the degradation process, you could set BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH equal to or greater than 610. The point being this would be the max width size before triggering a resize. This now leaves the cropping process at a “quality” level of 82, of which, you could mitigate by setting the JPEG “quality” level to something greater than 82 (max would be 100), assuming that you are uploading a jpg/jpeg image. This is defined at the following URL:

jpeg_quality

I’ll assume you know how to create a filter with a callback to return the desired “quality” level. Whether what I’ve outlined will satisfy your requirements for not being “horribly blurry” is yet to be determined because there may be another reason for “horribly blurry” and this just represents another “process of elimination” step/stage.

Hi @whyknott,

I’m a bit confused because I’m not sure what you mean by:

I need to change the quality of the images to 100%

Is this in reference to the JPG compression value? Additionally, I find this confusing, as well:

How do I tell BuddyPress to use the full image size and just scale it down to fit the image size vs. using the thumbnail size

As your code snippet indicates, there are 2 (two) image sizes (full & thumb) for Avatars and the default sizes are 50 x 50 for thumb and 150 x 150 for full, both are in pixels. So, if you wish to change the sizes, then you need to change the numeric values to something other than the default values. These are the sizes after a crop of the original image.

To help clarify some things, what is the size (width x height) of the original image that you are using to upload as an Avatar? Let’s start here and see if we can find a solution to your “quality” issue.

Can you share the error and which version of BuddyPress you are using?

Hello BP-developers,

I also want to thank you for maintaining and developing Buddypress!
We have been using it for almost 10 years and never had issues when updating to a new version.

Passing to 14.0.0 was different. Thanks for the BP Classic that fixes many issues for us but as Lars we still cannot have the translation working yet.

We used to use the buddypress-fr_FR.mo file to change the by default translation of “groupe” (French word for group) in “Expé” for expédition on our site. But changing the buddypress-fr_FR and re-uploading to wp-content/languages/plugins as we were used to do at each update, does not seem to work.

Here is a link to our website with both public and registered users : where the blue button close to the title should be “Créer une Expé” instead of “Créer un groupe” and the other blue buttons next to each group “Rejoindre l’Expé” instead of “Rejoindre le groupe”.

Thanks for your help.

WP 6.6.1
BP 14.0.0
Theme : a minimally customed child version of Boss

This is something I’m working on in the plugin I’m building as a result of this thread: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-rss/

I already have the code to remove stuff from wp search in another plugin I have, I just need to put that into this new plugin and update it specifically for this task.

I should have some code in the next week.

Will do! That sounds great. I feel like BuddyPress has so many features and is great but lacks more UI and setting options so web designers/developers can customize easier to help clients.

Perhaps I need to create a new post for this or find the relevant one, but the Avatar and Cover images are showing blurry. I tried adding this code to my functions file (via snippets plugin) and it did nothing. I need to change the quality of the images to 100% not be so blurry. How do I tell BuddyPress to use the full image and just scale it down to fit the image size vs. using the thumbnail size, since typically in WordPress those images are horribly blurry.

Here’s the code I added which only alters the image sizes not QUALITY.

<?php

// Define Buddypress Avatars Dimensions.
if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH' ) ) {
    define( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH', 50 );
}

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT' ) ) {
    define( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT', 50 );
}

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH' ) ) {
    define( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 150 );
}

if ( ! defined( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT' ) ) {
    define( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT', 150 );
}
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Thanks Venutius, I spent some time using your code along with ChatGPT and this seems to have worked for me, all the feeds are gone….maybe this will help someone else!

function disable_all_rss_feeds() {
    // Disable all WordPress feeds
    function disable_all_feeds() {
        wp_die(__('No feed available, please visit the <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>!'));
    }

    add_action('do_feed', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_atom', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss2_comments', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_atom_comments', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);

    // Remove RSS feed links from the header
    remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links', 2);
    remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3);

    // Disable BuddyPress feeds
    remove_action('bp_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_activity_sitewide_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_member_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_member_feed', 'bp_dtheme_activity_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_feed', 'bp_dtheme_group_activity_feed');

    // BuddyPress Nouveau template pack feed removals
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_header_meta', 'bp_nouveau_group_meta', 50);
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_header_meta', 'bp_nouveau_group_meta', 50);
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_action_activity_content', 'bp_nouveau_activity_feed', 5);

    // Disable BuddyPress members feeds
    remove_action('bp_members_directory_members_feed', 'bp_members_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress groups feeds
    remove_action('bp_groups_directory_groups_feed', 'bp_groups_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_activity_feed', 'bp_group_activity_custom_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress blogs feeds
    remove_action('bp_blogs_directory_blogs_feed', 'bp_blogs_feed');
    remove_action('bp_blog_comments_feed', 'bp_blog_comments_custom_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress forums feeds
    remove_action('bp_forums_directory_topics_feed', 'bp_forums_feed');
    remove_action('bp_forums_topic_feed', 'bp_forum_topic_custom_feed');
}
add_action('bp_init', 'disable_all_rss_feeds', 1);

// Disable BuddyPress Nouveau feeds
function disable_buddypress_nouveau_feeds() {
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_activity_feed', 'bp_nouveau_activity_feed');
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_feed', 'bp_nouveau_group_feed');
}
add_action('bp_init', 'disable_buddypress_nouveau_feeds', 1);

// Disable pingbacks and trackbacks for privacy
add_filter('xmlrpc_methods', function($methods) {
    unset($methods['pingback.ping']);
    return $methods;
});

add_filter('wp_headers', function($headers) {
    unset($headers['X-Pingback']);
    return $headers;
});

add_filter('pings_open', '__return_false', 10, 2);

// Remove RSS feed div by ID and class using jQuery
function remove_rss_feed_div() {
    if (is_buddypress()) {
        ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
            $('#activity-rss-feed.feed').remove();
        });
        </script>
        <?php
    }
}
add_action('wp_footer', 'remove_rss_feed_div');

add_filter( 'bp_rest_api_is_available', '__return_false' );

@briebree I’ve been developing a plugin which you may want to check. It doesn’t give option to choose different avatars, but it does allow members to join groups anonymously.

BuyddyBoss & BuddyPress Anonymous members Plugin

It is not in the wordpress.org plugin repository yet, thanks to a huge list of plugins awaiting review.

If you don’t get the issue with astra, then it’s not an issue with BuddyPress, it’s Elementor that is the issue. That’s the reason why we ask you to try with another theme.