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@techknowledgic
I have never heard of anyone losing data by activating a different theme. That sounds kinda nuts to be honest. You may have to re-assign your menu though if you have made a custom menu and switch themes. I personally don’t know that theme and I shy away from anything that would make my content reliant on a particular theme. Just my opinion, but when push comes to shove it is a lot easier to transition from theme to theme when a theme uses WP standards. Activating twenty twelve is simple just go to dashboard/appearance/themes and activate it. If you decide to re-activate that other theme it should retain the data you previously had in the database. No harm no foul!

@techknowledgic
Sounds like a theme issue. Have you tried activating twenty twelve theme to see if you can isolate it down to the theme? It sounds like a jquery issue at first glance. So try that and report back your findings.

@romandaily
Not sure what theme your using because of the cropped image but you could try adding something like this to the themes style.css

ul, li {
  list-style-type: none !important;
}

Have you checked to see if these bullets show up when activating Twenty Twelve Theme or bp-default?

Are you able to upload images through the WordPress media library?

@dswd you would go with the jQuery version that current WordPress version is using because that’s what BuddyPress and other updated plugins are using. That’s a major reason why themes should not be dequeueing WP jQuery and enqueueing their own – bad form really.

@dswd current BP/WP versions are using jQuery 1.8.3 while there are themes and plugins who either use old versions of jQuery and some which enqueue version 1.9.1 and therefore not kosher. Check that.

@dswd it could be a theme or plugin conflict with BP. What have you done to troubleshoot issue?

Hi there,

it should be pretty straight forward 🙂 All you need to do is to go to your media library and then you click on the image you would like to crop. You click on the edit button under the image and that should take you to where you can crop the image then. Let me know if you need my further assistance.

Kind regards

@stiligececilie

You might find google search better. Preface your query with site:buddypress.org to search this site only. ie site:buddypress.org change avatar

The gravatar upload works for me with bp 1.7.2. I can click on browse and then the upload button. Once uploaded I can crop the image.

Have you tried the usual troubleshooting of disabling all plugins and changing theme to either bp default or 2012 and see if it works. If so then re-enable individually until you find the culprit….

@jeffp808 looks like conflict with jcrop. Change to Twenty Twelve theme and check if cropping is corrected. If not, deactivate other plugins batch by batch except BuddyPress to check which is interfering with cropping.

having lots of plugins isn’t “bad” but the more you have, the more problems that can crop up, load times, compatibility etc etc etc

to locate your themes footer, go to your dashboard>appearance>editor and locate footer.php you’ll probably find wp_footer(); on its own, it needs to be <?php wp_footer(); ?> @chase8705

On my Server is the newest PHP Version.

@serververwaltung and what is your PHP version? Have you tried setting avatars using the BP Default theme to check whether it’s a theme JS/CSS issue? Do you see any other errors aside from what you posted? Have you tried deactivating plugins except BuddyPress to check for plugin conflict/s?
EDIT – Can you upload images in Posts > Add New and choose thumbnail image for example and insert it to post?

Please give more details before asking for help !
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

BP use the standart WP process to upload pictures. The default user avatar is set in the WP settings > discussion where you can choose between different avatar services. The default avatar shipped by BP is Mystery Man.

When a custom user avatar is uploaded by a member, the picture goes to wp-content/uploads/avatars/ into a folder named by the user ID. The original image is handled by the process to result in 2 different size, and BP rename each file to something unique with a MD5 name, and a human comprehensive name, such as c3f55cb7f3beaa22f7463132f5e0878d-bpfull.jpg and c3f55cb7f3beaa22f7463132f5e0878d-bpthumb.jpg

Internally BP use 3 default sizes for the user avatar: 50×50(small), 150×150(full) and 450×450 (max original file size).
These sizes can be changed. Read here how: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/avatar-sizes-in-1-7/

Each user can modify his profile and change his avatar so many times he want. The avatar upload process contains also an avatar cropper. The default cropping size is related to the avatar define “full”. By default it’s 150×150 and the original image is fixed to 450, even if it’s bigger on the user side.

Depending the placeholder of a profile avatar, those size are adapted to fit the template part fixed in the theme you use. On activity stream under bp-default theme, the avatar is 20×20, on members directory it’s 150×150, etc

The signup process is conditionned by registering. As long as a new user has not activated his account, he cannot upload or modify something, or even loggin to the site. That’s why there is no option for pics at this stage.

And yes, you can embed a profile pic into a sidebar or any other place. But this is only possible if you’re familiarized with BP and if you have some basic PHP knowledge.