I just realized that it also turned everyone’s uploaded avatar to a default avatar. Also changed all the group avatars to default avatars 
I came across this on a search, https://svn.buddypress.org/tags/1.1-rc/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php and this code got my avatars working again. Now the only problem I’m having is when you try to upload an avatar, no matter what size it is it says it’s too big and won’t upload it. Any suggestions?
nevermind, I just installed Rays plugin named “BuddyPress Usernames Only”.
Thanks Ray !
quote marks are ok, it just forum glitch. I dont know how to try generate different salt??! I use WordPress 3.0.
@travel-junkie Great idea for a plugin but I’m having an issue with it.
It seems to be demanding a mailchimp api key even when I don’t have the mailchimp section set up.
I only want to use the TOS section but it won’t let me save ANYTHING if I don’t supply the mailchimp stuff.
Can the TOS be used on their own without activating the MC stuff?
I’m using WP 3.0 and BP 1.2.4.
Cheers!
Your left-opening quote marks are curly quotes, not straight quotes (copy-paste from the closing quote marks). However, if that’s just a forum glitch, try generating a different salt.
on line 71 is:
define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, “![x>+2v]&?8&fvQ|Rzg0pdNka7!PrVMIuE,+pQ08$s[yK!0E+bV&gLZ>x<.RE2w*");
ok. I wanted to see if the problem is here (. htaccess). I think yes. Pay attention to punctuation.
@myjive, did you find a solution? I am having the same issue here and can’t work out how to fix it.
I’m not sure where back copies blogs.php is. Where is it located? I’m an amateur at this. Thanks for your help.
BuddyPress really seems to be slowing down when following its TRAC and I have followed it for more than a year now. The only thing I am seeing are Andys updates on his Twitter-page talking about soccer and his iPad. For my understanding, this is an indication that BP is (slowly) dying.
There are only a few major features which need to be developed in the BP-Core-Code in order to make BuddyPress a proper Social-Networking-software:
– Privacy features
– Properly working Private-Groups (I do have a TRAC-ticket out there regarding this)
– Blog-Posts from the Front-End
And most of all: BuddyPress needs to be made much simpler in terms of User-Interface (Navigation & Activity-streams).
Less is More !
KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid)
@nuprn1
thanks for the new code! I have this working now!
the only thing that is happening now is that the widget is displaying a ? in a black diamond before the title of each topic in the widget.
I am using WP 3.0.
Is this something to do with an unrecognised character or something?
Cheers.
I do agree with you Peter. The BuddyPress.org website has become so complicated, I am actually very confused when using it. It was much simpler before with the old design. Also I do not understand why Private-Messages have disappeared ? The “Followers” and “Following”-stuff is quite complicated as well and not thought through at all.
Anyway, for my website I am going to strip-out the Forums-component, as both Forums and Activity make it quite confusing for my users.
I am actually quite disappointed of BuddyPress due to the promised but missing features e.g. “Privacy”, “Properly Working Private-Groups” and “Blog-Posts from the Front-End” and am thinking of using another software than BP. Also feedback and information from the Core-developers on the status of implementation of those features is lacking considerably.
Once again: KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid)
Burt’s definitive absence is exactly why I brought it up 
So, you think the changes in BP from 1.0 to 1.2 are too vast to consider simply bringing his plugin up to date for the latest version of BuddyPress then?
What’s on line 71 of that file?
xCache and W3 Total Cache are totally different kettles of fish.
@rustybroomhandle …kool nickname BTW!
I also think looking first for child-theme/style.css (then _inc/css/default) would be the goof-proof way to go.
And please, oh pretty please, add the features for profiles too
@tfblogs Like I mentioned above – those are the only pages explicitly where the widget won’t load up. If you grab just the widget code off my demo site – then you can modify it to suit your needs. (hard for me to know what is causing your problem – tested with frontpage set as activity stream or blog posts and it works fine here)
@rossagrant – i updated the code on my demo site with a different naming schema – just grab all the code from there again. (as the same name with the forum extras plugin would cause a WSOD)
I gave up on it…even with just database caching, the extra files it installs prevented sign-ups on my site. Time to figure out xcache…
I don’t understand this site myself since the latest changes. I have no clue which messages are internal mail, or part of a group, or a forum post. I have a hard time finding my previous posts or threads I’d like to follow.
I’ve argued this before: Bolting old-fashioned forum logic (bbpress) on top of the newer social networking structures has thrown Buddypress into disarray. Flame away…
@pcwriter The colour selector thingy is almost done. For your purposes you’ll be able to switch off the advanced css stuff and just have the colour selector and/or the wallpaper thingymaboo available to your users. It works by loading a css template with 6 custom colours. I’ll work on making it such that if you choose to customise the template and the preset colour schemes, it will be upgrade-proof. The way I am doing that is by having the plugin look for your (site admin) custom stuff in the currently active BP theme folder, which I assume for most sites will be a customised child theme anyway. If there’s aaaany issues with that, let me know.
@gregfielding Yep, see above… also almost done. It’s taking a bit longer because I don’t want to accidentally create a security crater in someone’s site and then be driven out by a mob with flaming torches and pitchforks. 
@paulhastings0 That would be the very plugin of which I am speaking. And am considering a version for profiles. But one thing at a time.
back copies blogs.php
put
RewriteRule ^(.*/)? /(.*) wp-content/blogs.php files? File = $ 2 [L]
and see if there avatars
here’s to seeing this plugin appear in the plugin directory
So I just add that line into my .htaccess file?
