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My crop tool wasn’t working and it ended up being an error with the way I had enqueued the scripts and a JS error. After upload I was just seeing two versions of the image I had uploaded but no crop tool and nothing was interactive.

Be sure that jquery and jcrop are actually being called.
And check out those type errors. It could be stoping JS on those breaks.

I had wp-activate-users installed and there was a big typo in the JS that ended up being my main culprit for breaking a few other things as well.

Have you noticed a difference between the ones that crop and the ones that do not?

File size? File type? Animations?

What exactly happens when you can’t crop the image? Does the crop tool show up and work and it just doesn’t use your selection or does the tool not even show up?

No bp-custom.php has to run from plugins folder.

As much as one would expect functions.php to be too late in the proceedings to set a constant that is read it did/does actually work for me to change my user avatars ??

This issue of being able to effect default ‘stuff’ from themes does crop up from time to time, ideally a method that could ensure things could always be set from functions.php would be great but not sure how or if that is possible with something like Constants which by definition have to be set at earliest opportunity.

BuddyPress avatars have always been square since BP alpha version if I remember well
I was going to refer you to @sbrajesh but I see you’ve already posted there http://buddydev.com/buddypress/changing-default-avatar-size-croppedused-by-buddypress/

Re: Cropping Avatars

Change to bp-default theme and check if you can crop there. If you can, well and good. If not, check out some trouble-shooting tips https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

Re: Theme Compatibility

First thing’s first. Before making any WP theme (downloaded outside of WP theme repository) compatible with BuddyPress, make sure that it is secure. Download the Theme Check Plugin and see if there are warnings or required generated when you run the theme check. WP Theme Repo for example only accepts themes which do not contain warnings and required items.

I have just downloaded a copy of gamespeed per your link above and there are obfuscated code within 2 files I checked out so far – at the bottom of the theme’s functions.php file and all of footer.php file. Because of that, I can’t help you since I need all the HTML information in footer.php among other theme files for the BP Compatibility Process.

Crosswider, I fixed mine.
I also don’t have a BP theme, I used the BP template pack plugin.
I read where this image cropping issue often happens with a plugin conflict.
So, I first deactivated all my plugins (except BP), and voila! the crop worked.
I then systematically reactivated the plugins until I found the culprit.
In my case, it was the BP mobile plugin. It was an easy fix in my case, b/c BP mobile had an option to “lazy load images”, which loaded a conflicting jquery file. I just unchecked the option and everything worked fine.
I hope you can use this method to find your culprit too.

crosswider,, I feel your pain…
I can’t get the crop tool to work either.
I have the template pack installed, and followed all the instructions to a tee (which is the fix I saw recommended.)
Everything else works pretty well.

You might want to check the custom community forums to check if such issue has cropped up and any solutions or if no such issue was brought up, post in that forum about your issue.

If you want to check if the issue is corrected using bp-default theme, backup your database where the custom community theme’s options are stored. Then change to bp-default theme and check if you can post updates without issue.

@mrandrewaustria – i’d suggest a more positive approach over the above reply.

if you can reproduce the issue consistently (via bp-default theme and disabled third party plugins) – create a trac ticket with the steps/details. I doubt the main developers are looking downward on people reporting issues (why would they?)

if the crop/favorite actions are not working – sounds like a javascript issue

for email – there are several action and filters hooks to use and different ways (client side or extend a custom register page)

I’m coming across the same barrier… Pulling the group image at different sizes is fine, however when you try and modify the group avatar size from the group admin perspective, it get’s a bit tricky. Try and upload and small icon for a group and you will notice it puts the little logo on a black background and resizes it akwardly.

Looking for something to hook onto to modify this setting and I can’t see anything pertaining to size in the BP template set

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<input type="submit" name="upload" id="upload" value="” />

‘delete_group_avatar’, ‘component’ => ‘groups’, ‘wrapper_id’ => ‘delete-group-avatar-button’, ‘link_class’ => ‘edit’, ‘link_href’ => bp_get_group_avatar_delete_link(), ‘link_title’ => __( ‘Delete Avatar’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘link_text’ => __( ‘Delete Avatar’, ‘buddypress’ ) ) ); ?>

<img src="” id=”avatar-to-crop” class=”avatar” alt=”” />

<input type="submit" name="avatar-crop-submit" id="avatar-crop-submit" value="” />

<input type="hidden" name="image_src" id="image_src" value="” />

`

Any thoughts on how to modify size, right from the upload process?

Hi Fraser,

You should be given a crop screen after uploading your avatar where you can drag a square over the portion of the image you’d like to use.

If this is not the case it sounds like an issue with the theme you’re using – you’re best getting in touch with the people that developed it. Alternatively you can activate the default buddypress theme and try to customise that to suit your needs.

Hope this helps,
Laurie

– Did you also upgrade to latest BP Template Pack plugin for your custom WP theme?

– Have you changed to bp-default theme and checked whether same behavior applies? Or does it only happen when you have your WP theme with BP Template Pack?