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The intrim solution I have been advised is to put this into my header: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/ie8-compatibility-mode (can’t get the code to show) – you can see it at this link.

This forces (sort of) IE8 to use compatibility view. Now the cropping tool appears without user intervention.

I have the same problem with IE8, however if the user enables compatibility mode the crop tool becomes visible. I have tried the instruction from odiggy and it never sorted the IE8 without compatibility view. This is just annoying as I have to tell people to enable compatibility view to use my site.

Same problem.. WP Multisite with the latest version of BuddyPress.. I will look up the exact javascript error and report back!

+1 .. all of a sudden I’m having this problem too. Current versions of WP and BP + multisite enabled.

@amanson: The part you mention with the avatar image sounds like it might be the normal behavior. On mine (child of bp-default), when editing the avatar for a group, it lets you crop in the top picture, while the bottom picture is a preview of what the cropped & resized image will look like…. I always assumed that’s just how BuddyPress does things, haven’t tried to do anything with my avatar or a group avatar here on this site, though.

I am also having this problem.

Cool, glad you figured it.

Actually, turns out it was a conflict with the jquery.tools script.

I was using jQuery Tools for tabs on my site – they were much easier to implement than the UI ones for some reason and I also wanted to use their scroller for something else. Problem is, it’s causing a conflict with the avatar cropper. As soon as I stop including the tools library, the cropper works. Very frustrating.

I have the same problem, IE8 doesn’t display the crop tools with an uploaded avatar image. The crop tool works fine in Firefox and Safari. Have you ever solved this issue, I can’t seem to find an answer anywhere on the forum?

Thanks

@DJPaul Oh heck, how stupid. I can see the javascript now. Now to figure out how/when/where to add that. Thanks!

You shouldn’t need to download JCrop, as it should already be called when you’re on the crop avatar page.
I’m guessing that you’re using another JS script that is interfering with it.

Okay this fixed it for me:

1. Download Jcrop (http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html)
2. Put the jquery.Jcrop.js file on your server in your theme /js folder
3. Link jcrop in your header.php in the header

@miri
If you switch to the default theme (BP-Default), does it work?

I am having this problem with WordPress 3.0.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.2. I’ve disabled every plugin except for BuddyPress and I keep getting this error in Firefox’s error panel:
Error: jQuery(“#avatar-to-crop”).Jcrop is not a function
Source File: http://www.bladdyblah.com/groups/test/admin/group-avatar
Line: 38

Viewing the page source, I do see that the following js is being included:
http://www.bladdyblah.com/wp-includes/js/jcrop/jquery.Jcrop.js?ver=0.9.8

The uploaded avatars are there an in multiple sizes, but the crop tool doesn’t appear on the page (thus the javascript error). This happens with both user and group avatars.

Any ideas?

Ugh yeah this sucks… I got it working on a fresh blog install with the default theme. On the blog I desperately need it working on no go. I’ve disabled numerous plugins/removed any jquery includes etc. to no avail. Just can’t seem to figure out why it works one one blog and not the other. *sigh*

OMG… why can’t we get this issue resolved?

Somebody… anybody please come up with a fix for this.

My website is experiencing the same issues my new users can’t crop their avatar!
http://www.rawbreakfeast.com

I don’t think it’s a plugin issue. I just tried in Chrome browser and the crop selection tool for avatar is still not visible. It preselects and you cannot change it. The funny thing is, I started a new group, and that avatar was selectable before cropping. Then I went back to the old group,, and it was not. Same browser.

http://blog.davidhthomas.net

I’d like to be able to change/update my group avatars.

Thanks,
David

@crashutah
That’s a good point. Incase we want different size for groups and members the only good way is to override the “bp_core_avatar_handle_crop” and may be in extreme case “bp_core_avatar_handle_upload” and that will give you enormous flexibility.
After overriding it, we can filter on “bp_core_fetch_avatar” and that will be all we need.

well, The very first thing is
1. define the 2 size(bp allows only 3 sizes of avatar at this moment) using the constants BP_AVATAR_(THUMB/FULL/ORIGINAL_MAX)_HEIGHT and BP_AVATAR_(THUMB/FULL/ORIGINAL_MAX)_WIDTH if the original avatar sizes(50×50,150×150,450×450) does not fit your requirement.

Then use bp_core_fetch_avatar, it supports the width,height property and thumb type
You can fetch an avatar of different size using different width/height value but again, It will not crop, it will constrain the avar using the width/height property in the img tag. so i don’t think it will be of much use .

But if you want only 2 sizes of avatar, as you mentioned above, define one as Thumb,other as full and fetch thumb using “type=thumb” and the other using “type=anything other than thumb” in bp_core_fetch_avatar and it will work.

Hey people, i have figured out what was the problem. I have recently installed plugin called Lightbox 2 which makes pics appear in pop-up box. This plugin uses jquery and error said that some jquery problem occured.

After i deactivated this plugin crop worked normally in IE8. So my advise is to search for plugin that conflicts with BP crop func.

It seems like IE8 crops upper left corner of the pic and doesn’t allow to crop it by yourself. Strange. Anybody found any solution for this problem?

I also have this problem. It crops the pic before you do then expects you to crop it another time.