Ok, this worked for me (I hope it fixes evrybody else):
Go to Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings
Set “Store uploads in this folder” to “wp-content/uploads”.
Set “Full URL path to files” to the REAL FULL PATH of your uploads.
Then change bp-core-avatars.php line 389:
Replace:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;
With:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;
else $path = ABSPATH . $path;
It fixes the problem.
Source: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-issues/page/2
Windhamdavid, your post got marked as spam by askimet (spelling?). I’m just going through the spam bin atm.
David, actually I don’t have MU installed, just regulat WP single…
mu or single user wordpress? the version info is not in the <head> but the /blog url indicates it’s MU. at first I thought PHP GD library, it’s not ~ you’re on a (gs) at media temple and I’ve tested there, and seem to remember running into this so I registered on your site to test (I like the cure anyhow) and I notice that your image url path is off ~ if you running from the sites/ directory with mu are there any other custom configurations to accomodate not running it from the root folder that might effect this url?
~ you may try “Settings” >> “Miscellaneous” Clear “Store uploads in this folder”-path
or ~ https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1970
or ~ https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-issues/
or ~ https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-11864
otherwise, try to make sure that your wp-content/blogs.dir/ have the proper permissions and that your uploads url settings are correct.
I actually got the bp-template-pack installed for integration into an existing WP theme. Also have bbPress installed and running.
The site I am working on is http://cureuphoria.com/activity
Thanks Andy.
Does it work with the default theme?
Tried Group Avatar, just in case. Same proble as for profiles.
I got the same exact problem.
WP 2.9.2
BP 1.2.2.1
…too!
Any help is appreciate. It’s not cool when a memeber try to upload his/her picture and it just doesn’t work.
@DJPaul – Sorry. I’m just trying to keep things organized.
I’m trying to avoid making people working with translation to have to scroll through hundreds of posts of requests discussion to find an answer to a question like “Can you describe the concept of a cropped thumbnail versus a resized thumbnail so I can translate it into Spanish”
I can copy this discussion into the feature requests topic and you can delete this topic if you think it will be better. … 
Groups will be *awesome* it will make organizing things soooooo much easier!
^F^
Re: *applies text-transform:lowercase* …. lol. . Too much RedBull before writing. Could you maybe edit the topic to lowercase for me… I think the all caps looks kind of unprofessional on second look.
@agrunder
I have added the feeds idea to my list of requests. If I get a bunch of requests I will consider adding that feature.
Link avatars are already stored in a separate directory under wp-content/blogs.dir/files/link-avatars. I wonder if maybe this is not the case for single WP? I still need to do a bunch more testing.
The thumbnails that are uploaded are handled very much like the other BuddyPress avatars, and nearly all of the functionality for handling them is re-used as far as code goes. Right now the original “should” be getting resized down to 450×450 on upload, and then a copy down to 150×150 and 50×50 after the crop. All of these dimensions are determined by BP constants.
The thumbs are scaled down via CSS depending on the situation. For instance the 50×50 is used exactly as is.
I have not received much feedback at all regarding real world spam issues with Links, but I know eventually there will be a problem. I want to wait to tackle spam when there are real world use-cases to solve, not hypothetical ones.
What you described is very similar to Digg, and I think would be a cool feature, but maybe not to handle spam. I have planned from the beginning to allow users to set a threshold for negative rated links that would prevent them from showing up, for instance anything rated -5 or lower, don’t show me. The admin could set the default value.
Thanks for taking the time to submit some valuable feedback.
@hnla – Deciding how to dimension thumbnails, based on images with widely varying aspect ratios, and then present them in a grid, has been a problem that has dogged graphic designers since the earliest days of the Internet.
Tell me about it , our main concern are estate agent web sites, and have continual headaches with image resizing and agents trying to upload portrait images that need to fit to a specified width and blocks; as a frontend layout coder it makes me want to cry when my layouts get destroyed.
However regardless, thumbnails need to resize original to a specified width regardless of aspect ratio to a degree.
I happened to grab a rectangle wider than high to test with and would have had to accept that being resized proportionally to ~50px wide ending up with some minuscule height of around 10px
We had a property portal site that members could upload company logos to a profile page we needed to produce a listing for those profiles and a thumbnail of the logo and the problems we had with users uploading hopeless aspect ratios for resizing were ultimately defeating and no we didn’t provide cropping as the users would have been too confused by that.
Deciding how to dimension thumbnails, based on images with widely varying aspect ratios, and then present them in a grid, has been a problem that has dogged graphic designers since the earliest days of the Internet.
The two most popular way to do this are “Facebook Style”
http://foxly.ca/facebook-style.jpg
and “Flickr Style”
http://foxly.ca/flickr-style.jpg
I’m actually writing code for *both* options *right now*, and after some back and forth with @francescolaffi we’ll probably get it set up as an option in the administrator backend.
We could probably add the ability for users to manually crop the thumbnail for each picture in their gallery using the avatar cropping tool, and I will look at the feasibility of doing this. Experience has shown that most users do *not* want to do this for every picture they upload …and that’s why neither Facebook nor Flickr include this functionality.
^F^
@_dorsvenabili – I’m glad you like our plugin.
There are actually two developers working on this plugin now, @francescolaffi, and myself @foxly; @francescolaffi is busy writing his exams right now, so I’m handling all the user support for the next few days.
BP Album is community-developed software! If you find it useful, please consider contributing code, translations, and ideas to the project. Helping answer new user’s questions on the forums is also helpful, because it means we have more time to work on writing code.
@hnla – Deciding how to dimension thumbnails, based on images with widely varying aspect ratios, and then present them in a grid, has been a problem that has dogged graphic designers since the earliest days of the Internet.
The two most popular way to do this are “Facebook Style”
http://foxly.ca/facebook-style.jpg
and “Flickr Style”
http://foxly.ca/flickr-style.jpg
I’m actually writing code for *both* options *right now*, and after some back and forth with @francescolaffi we’ll probably get it set up as an option in the administrator backend.
We could probably add the ability for users to manually crop the thumbnail for each picture in their gallery using the avatar cropping tool, and I will look at the feasibility of doing this. Experience has shown that most users do *not* want to do this for every picture they upload …and that’s why neither Facebook nor Flickr include this functionality.
^F^
Successfully uploaded and saved an image so all appears to be functioning correctly now.
Only possible issue I saw was that after initial upload the thumbnail is a clipped view of the full image and at no point did I see any means of cropping, and all thumbnail representations of the actual image are not resized but simply clipped; is this by design? or perhaps I have not addressed settings in backend correctly?
“Settings > Discussion” is only applicable to WordPress blog comments.
BP doesn’t offer threaded comments in the forum.
It could be done via a plugin.
Not sure about the cropping avatar issue.
When you crop your avatar, the image gets reduced to the width and height dimensions.
So yes, the filesize gets reduced.
Fixed
In fact the issue was in ALL upload/crop images in buddypress.
I get to upload the file but then at the cropping phase I see broken links and I can’t do anything with the images. If not cropped, the images then don’t show up.
The problem is still existing. But croping an avatar for bp-group was working without any problem.
I have removed the function for the custom header in function.php and implemented the header in my child style-css. But this isn’t a perfect solution, because i had to change the original function.php of the bp-default theme to get style-css excepting the new #header definition.
I have exactly the same issue. Am running BP 1.2.1 and the BuddyPress Template Pack 1.0.2 on an IIS7.
Whats really weird, is I just tried this in IE8 and it worked fine with a particialar file.
Then I tried it in FireFox 3.5.8 with FireBug enabled and I had the same problem you had, with a different file. I got “500 URL Rewrite Module Error” when trying to GET the picture name I just uploaded.
I through thats strange and so I went back to IE and uploaded a different file and it also failed.. so not browser related.. it’s something do do with the file itself??. I can’t figure out exactly what but several of the files I’ve tried don’t upload and show the crop – my guess after some experimentation is there is some rule about the minimu file size needed to crop?
Hey JJJ;
I would like to reiterate that @etiviti (rich!) posted a potential solution earlier, but I can’t figure out how/where to implement it in the bp core files.
I am having the same problem that the avatar image is not being displayed, but when checking the code, (and using firebug) it is clear there is a simple ‘/’ missing from the image url path:
PAGE SOURCE CODE WAS:
<h5>Crop Your New Avatar</h5>
<img id="avatar-to-crop" class="avatar" alt="Avatar to crop" src="wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/paul23.jpg"/>
<div id="avatar-crop-pane">
<img id="avatar-crop-preview" class="avatar" alt="Avatar preview" src="wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/paul23.jpg"/>
</div>
Notice there is no ‘/’ before the wp-content in the image src= call.
SOURCE CODE SHOULD BE:
<h5>Crop Your New Avatar</h5>
<img id="avatar-to-crop" class="avatar" alt="Avatar to crop" src="/wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/paul23.jpg"/>
<div id="avatar-crop-pane">
<img id="avatar-crop-preview" class="avatar" alt="Avatar preview" src="/wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/paul23.jpg"/>
</div>
When I add the slash in front of wp-content in the src= call, the image(s) appear. Problem is, I can’t figure out how to get the core files to display the src= url properly.
PLEASE HELP US ALL!!!
AH, believe I found the problem. Seems to be a conflict with the jquery dropdown menu plugin: http://www.phpinterviewquestion.com/jquery-dropdown-menu-plugin
Any ideas how to fix this conflict? I kind of need that plugin active.
Thanks
Hi,
As a newbie i first want to thank the community for buddypress – I hope I will get everything to work properly.
I cannot get images to work on my site http://www.nannys.dk
When trying to upload an avatar to a profile i get to a page where i can crop. The image is not visible, so unfortunately I cannot crop. Standard avatars work fine.
Also it does not collect Gravatar.
When inserting an image to a blogpost, i cannot get to show the image. The image is uploaded, but not shown.
I hope some friendly person can assist me?
Best regards
i tried this… but no use…
User profile photo also has some problem… Its not possible to upload at the registration time… but when i tried to upload from profile… then its work fine….
I had an issue with both group avatar and member avatar where it would upload just fine but the crop tool never displayed the image. I fixed it by changing the settings in:
Settings > Miscellaneous:
I emptied the field for “Store Uploads in this Folder”
and I used the full path field instead, ie:
http://domain.com/wp-content/uploads
That did it for me. Might help.
