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I already checked /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php and everything is okay on there
What exactly did you check in that core file? It’s unlikely an issue with a core BP file unless someone has been editing it or unless a bug has crept in very recently which I doubt.

One thing you should have checked is whether the issue exists when you switch to a theme known to be generally ok with BP i.e twentythirteen or twentytwelve

This sounds like a classic theme issue really.

Thanks, I have the same config but the same problem; the avatars show up correctly in WP dashboard but are not shown in BP (the crop-function doesn’t work either). I’d like to know if there is a fix which can be implemented by upload…

Having same issue. Moreover I’m running multisite in which all 5 sites have all the same plugins activated + all use the same theme. Yet, on some sites cropping works and on half of them not. All sites have exactly same setup, same settings, same extensions and same functions. Nothing modified. Along with the crop function, the buddypress register function also fails on those site where cropping fails.

Theme issue? Don’t think so.
Other plugin issues, nope.

PS, on the sites that DO have a functioning cropping, when first time clicked on any area within the cropping module, the page jumps and users have to scroll up again.

WP 3.6.1 mlti network, latest buddypress, bbpress latest, cubepoints, set permalinks on %post-name%. Activated and deactivated rtMedia (which sucks for me since it conflicts with build-in media upload) but also gives same results.

@mirgcire
As of BP 1.7+ bbpress is a seperate install. Try following the below instructions.
1.) Go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/components and check the box “User Groups”
2.) Install and activate bbpress.
3.) In the front-end go to the groups page and click the button “Create a Group”
4.) Give the group a name and description, click “Create Group and Continue
5.) Select your privacy options then click “Next Step”
6.) Under Group Forum click the box “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” Click “Next Step.”
7.) Choose avatar for the group, click “Upload” then crop the image. Click “Next Step”
8.) Select friends to invite. If you dont have any yet just click “Finish.”
This should do it. Now you have groups with their own forum. Click the Groups nav button then click the group you created. Below the avatar you will see the tabs Home | Forum | Etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck!

A few things to add to the situation.
I have looked in the register.php file which I can modify in my child theme folder (Registration/register.php). The code to upload an avatar during the registration process exist at the end of the register.php file. The upload step however only displays when I have my suffusion theme active. It does not show up in the default twentytwelve or twentythrirteen themes or the buddypressdefault theme.
The final step of the registration process says “Your Current Avatar” and gives the option to choose a file and upload the image. When I select a file and click the Upload Image button the cropping tool should display but it doesn’t. Instead I get directed back to an empty registration page.
Please let me know if anyone has a fix for this. I would really like to use the avatar upload in registration and I think others want this option as well.

I am on BP 1.8.1 using extended profiles. At the end of my registration process a screen displays automatically asking for the new user to upload an avatar. I assumed that this was an addition with either BP 1.8.1 or part of extended profiles. This essentially adds the avatar upload to the registration process. Am I the only one seeing this?
Unfortunately when a new user clicks the upload button it does not work. Instead of allowing the new user to browse for an image and crop it and then upload it, the new user is just directed back to the registration page.
I posted a separate thread about this a week ago. Please let me know if anyone is also struggling with getting the avatar upload to work in the registration process.

@rimoreno
If you want to use an entire image then the dimensions need to be square. For example 400width X 400height, or 600width X 600height. There may be other ways that include editing code but I find this is the simplest way.

Thanx Mercime
Even I was facing the same problem.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5070490/buddypress-jquery-google-hosted-library-conflict-with-image-crop

@techknowledgic This solution doesn’t work for me, but if you made some customization as I did you can try it, but I would bet that in your case it is some old plugin issue related.

@mercime is right this is a javascript issue, cropping function conflicts with some code or plugin, happily I have discovered yesterday the same issue immediately after installing ajax message box in single.php from this site http://flintmaker.com/code/jquery-fade-message-in-or-out/ which I wanted to use to greet people with ajax message conditionally by knowing where are they from (using maxmind geoip which already works) and if they come from search engines, after removing that
line
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
from header.php cropping function start to work again, on wordpress.stackexchange.com are many answers (one of them cropping related and most of them speaks about this solution in code below in functions.php or bp_custom.php what are solutions which doesn’t work for me too 🙁

// Javascript conflict
function mytheme_enqueue_scripts() {
       wp_deregister_script('jquery');
       wp_register_script('jquery', ("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"), false, '1.4.2');
       wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'mytheme_enqueue_scripts');

Hopefully @mercime should help me how to avoid this js conflict, I am unfortunately not able to use ajax-admin.php instead jquery as most people there advice to use.
WP 3.6 and BP 1.8 beta2 and I use bp default theme

@techknowledgic looking at the theme demo, there’s no script like that in source code. So it could very well be an old plugin enqueueing the old jQuery version. Did you deactivate plugins batch by batch as I mentioned above?

@techknowledgic https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-cany-crop-my-avatar/#post-169257

@techknowledgic upon further check, the problem is that your theme is loading the old jquery 1.7.2 version from Google
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
while WP/BP are using jQuery v1.10.2
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.techknowledgic.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js'></script>

This is a theme issue. Themes and plugins should use the jQuery version packaged with WordPress. Please contact theme author.

@techknowledgic the link to the image in your first post leads to 404 page. Basic troubleshooting involves changing to Twenty Twelve theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress. I recommend setting up a development site if you’re going to grow and maintain your BP site with the same environment as your production/live site. That way, you could test plugins and themes before installing/activating them.

Back up your database, then deactivate plugins batch by batch to identify the conflict. Start with the avatars plugin you have activated in your site.

I am facing the same issue

please can you tell me exactly how you fixed it?

Thanks!

It will be something like:
$ chown domainuser:domainuser /whateverfolder/

but you need root access via shell , be in the directory above one needing changing or specify full path /var/home/… and possible a switch to specify to do change recursively on sub-directories, so don’t try the above without checking a tutorial first.

Do some googling on linux chown command.

alright, please give me your site name in personal message, i will try to fix it. thanks.