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@arturol WP/BP versions?

I just checked the issues you mentioned as a regular user (not admin) in a site using the latest WP/Versions:
a) Friendship Request and Accepting
b) uploading and cropping updated avatar
and both are working fine.

Without knowing anything about your set-up or if you’ve made any customisations, my thoughts are:

• jCrop isn’t working properly
• CSS might be causing the problem
• Your theme might be causing the problem

You can add the following code to your theme’s functions.php and change the crop size (FULL_WIDTH & FULL_HEIGHT, here set to 1920 x 1111) and also the thumbnail sizes to whatever you like, along with specifying maximum limits on the images uploaded.

// Resizes avatars
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH', 50 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT', 50 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 1920 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT', 1111 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH', 2000 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_FILESIZE', 819200 );

please somebody help me I want to remove avatar cropping process from my site. I would like to make it auto crop as it’s in userpro pluging. Thanks

Great Scott!

These time issues crop up every blue moon, so any insight you can provide into the following time settings would be awesome:

• Your physical timezone
• The timezone setting of your server(s)
• The timezone setting of your PHP configuration
• The timezone setting of your WordPress installation

Seems somewhere down the line, there’s a problem with our calculations in a certain configuration. It could be the math, could be daylight savings time, could be a WordPress bug, a BuddyPress bug, or a rip in the space-time continuum!

@cukeving Let’s keep discussion in the forums. Could be a theme issue or conflict with a second plugin. What theme are you using? Have you tried changing to Twenty Thirteen theme and checking if the same issue crops up or otherwise?

The more reason I would like an android app for buddypress site is in the cropping of photo when changing the profile avatar. For sometime now this has been giving me a serious headache seeing my website filled up with the default mystery avatars, I sort to find out while and the response I got from everyone was that they could not crop their images on mobile especially when using mini version of some mobile browsers like opera mini, uc browser mini and others which of course is good for minimizing data usage.Even with the normal mobile browser the experience is still very poor. It’s time the developers at buddypress take the issue of mobile version a serious issue. It would be okay if the cropping process in buddypress can automatically detect when on mobile and use the phone hardware to crop the photo before upload. It’s generally best to crop on phone hardware than on mobile browsers, beta still to auto resize and upload would be great. I pray someone can develop a plugin for this.

I was having this same issue and none of the posted solutions was working. In the end, it turned out that it was because the filename of the avatar image was the problem (I presume too long).
Basically, I was testing uploading an autogenerated filename (32203c6ae1bc3723a3432a38b1185490-bpthumb.jpg).
This failed with the non-descript error: There was a problem cropping the avatar.
I shortened the filename, and BAM! all works fine.
In that none of the posts I’ve seen around this problem suggest the filename as being a problem, I thought I’d post my solution.
(May be worth adding an error check to bp-core-avatars.php ?)

I was having this same issue and none of the posted solutions was working. In the end, it turned out that it was because the filename of the avatar image was the problem (I presume too long).
Basically, I was testing uploading an autogenerated filename (32203c6ae1bc3723a3432a38b1185490-bpthumb.jpg).
This failed with the non-descript error: There was a problem cropping the avatar.
I shortened the filename, and BAM! all works fine.
In that none of the posts I’ve seen around this problem suggest the filename as being a problem, I thought I’d post my solution.
(May be worth adding an error check to bp-core-avatars.php ?)

I think you will find that it is to do with your image naming. Try uploading a single worded image name with no dashes etc and see if the cropping tool works then

You could try adding this to your theme’s functions.php:

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'bp_core_add_cropper_inline_js' );

It’s a quick and dirty approach – just removes the script necessary for the cropping to happen. You’ll still be shown the image crop step – they’ll just be no way for the user to actually do the cropping.

Note: Untested.

looks like bp_core_delete_existing_avatar isn’t firing because the file path to new image isn’t right. I’d use bp_core_avatar_handle_upload( $file ) as this will copy and resize the image for use by bp_core_avatar_handle_crop

I would use bp_core_avatar_handle_upload( $file ) because you are not doing a import from one folder to another you are just skipping the default bp cropper.

> After form gets submitted, both cropped versions of the image are put in the avatars / user_id directory.

Are the old avatar images there too? Where are they being served from?

yeah that will be great if the avatar can be auto-crop to default buddypress size without mandatory the user to do it.

Do you want avatars to be uploaded? If there is no user cropping then an image will get cropped on upload.

I will like the plugin to still give the website administrator an option to allow or disallow avatar croping in any case. Thanks

Whatsapp is native and doesn’t need to deal with browser inconsistencies so you can’t really compare it to BuddyPress

I’ll create a plugin to make the crop work on mobile and have an upload image only in browsers that jcrop won’t work on

croping avatar on mobile phone not supported on all mobile browsers especially operal mini and the mini versions of other mobile browsers. Also low end smartphones cannot handle this thereby, given the user no ability to change their avatar on mobile phone.work great on PC, but as we all know these days users uses their mobile phone to access internet more than PC. It would have been great if buddypress was coded specifically to allow croping on mobile phone media library before uploading to the web just like the way whatsapp does. In whatapp user must first crop the image in media library before uploading.This is the reason why I will like disable avatar croping in buddypress avatar upload.

There is not a built in way to disable the cropping part, no. Interested to find out why you seem to want to allow avatar uploads but not let people size them?

@modemlooper

I can’t figure out how to get this working. It’s actually been on my ‘todo’ list for weeks but I can’t seem to crack it. I even opened a bounty on the problem on Stack Overflow 4 days ago 🙂

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21138253/how-to-make-the-avatar-preview-image-fluid-when-using-jcrop

Any hints on what I should be doing to make the crop preview image fluid? 🙂

@modemlooper

Is it a CSS fix or did you make changes to jCrop? I’ve been looking through BuddyMobile but can’t find the fix?