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@venutius i think you may have missed my last comment before your plugin suggestions…just want to make sure, are you suggesting i use the front end (user profile page generated in buddypress) to change each user’s avatar….or are you suggesting i use the back end (from the dashboard) to change a user’s avatar after i “disable user profile uploads and see if you can change the avatar yourself from the users profile page”…??

@venutius btw…..i’m referring to the part where you said, “see if you can change the avatar yourself from the users profile page”

do you mean i should try to change the avatar from the backend, the ‘user profile’ in the dashboard or the user profile page generated in BuddyPress?

@venutius thanks!

you mean the user’s profile page in the dashboard, or the user profile page that is in BuddyPress?

@venutius if i could juuuust get BuddyPress to use the same avatar that bbPress uses, that would solve basically everything

that way i could use a plugin that changed the bbPress avatar, and then any change in bbPress’s avatar would show as the avatar for BuddyPress too

know how to do that?

@venutius agree…..

thing is, in bbPress there are plugins that easily, and in a lightweight fashion, allow for custom avatars for users

users can go to their profile in the dashboard and change it

now, because i also restrict access to the dashboard for users that are not admins, this works. it works because i am then the one, then, that can change the avatars for individual users this way, without having to allow users to change their own avatars, and without enabling the creation of user profiles in BuddyPress

simple dimple

but for some godawful reason, even though this means that bbPress avatars can be changed this way via various plugins, BuddyPress doesn’t accept the same change

i would think that bbPress is not that different, coding-wise, from BuddyPress

buuuuut hell, i don’t know 😀

if BuddyPress allowed the customization to happen like bbPress does, of individual avatars from the user dashboard, that would be great

isn’t there a way to allow BuddyPress to use a bbPress avatar? so i could use the plugin that changes the avatar in bbPress, and then any changes to a bbPress avatar…BuddyPress would show the same avatar???

@venutius ok, will test that code….but even if that code works to change the default avatar in BuddyPress, how would i change the avatar for each user on a case-by-case basis?

please note: i will not be able to go to the user’s profile to change their avatar, because profiles are disabled. they do not exist.

i want to be able to change a user’s avatar, but not allow my users to be able to change their own avatar.

@venutius glad to have helped — and awesome on updating the page, thanks!

btw, i’ve shut off user profiles; i do not want my users to be able to update their profiles at all….this is not a social site i’m building, even though buddypress is built with the idea that it resembles something along the lines of facebook…

my site is going to have groups for the sole purpose of discussion, but not for socializing; i’ve deliberately shut off user profiles so users can’t even see them

so enabling ‘extended profiles’…wouldn’t that require that i go to the user profile to update an avatar for a user? i’ve disabled that…so even if i were to turn on ‘extended profiles’ how would i be able to upload a user avatar for each user?

as to that plugin, it works GREAT to shut off gravatar access; it shows the blank BP default image person thing….but even when i pair that plugin with other plugins that allow avatar customization, only bbPress avatars are affected with other plugins; BuddyPress doesn’t work with other plugins that try to get local avatars to show — even if i’ve already shut off the Gravatar display with that fab plugin you linked to (‘disable user gravatar’)

the direct link to the Codex page if anyone wants to see it:

https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/guides/customizing-buddypress-avatars/

@prashantvatsh if you happen to have any idea how to get BuddyPress to use local avatars and stop trying to use Gravatars…while also allowing for certain classes of users (subscriber, participant, administrator, keymaster, etc.) to have their own default avatar, i’d greatly appreciate it

Alright, I’ve downloaded my entire WP directory and searched for bp_members_screen_display_profile with Notepad++ Search in Files. But the only files showing hits belong to Buddypress.

F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-members-component.php (3 hits)
	Line 329: 				'screen_function'     => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
	Line 346: 			'screen_function' => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
	Line 359: 				'screen_function'     => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-members-theme-compat.php (1 hit)
	Line 58: 			do_action( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile' );
F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\screens\profile.php (3 hits)
	Line 15: function bp_members_screen_display_profile() {
	Line 22: 	do_action( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile' );
	Line 31: 	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile', 'members/single/home' ) );

CRITICAL Cannot redeclare bp_members_screen_display_profile() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/profile.php:22) in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/profile.php line 32

How to go from here?

Best regards,
Alrik

Thanks!! Will do! I really like buddypress and bbpress, just gotta get a handle on the trouble makers. ????????