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Well, okay then. You have the same GD library that I’m using.

Have you always had this problem or did it start happening after you updated BuddyPress?

The function that takes care of avatar cropping is a jQuery function. I’m not sure, but I think it relies upon PHP’s GD library. Perhaps this could be your issue.

I’m all out of ideas on this one. Andy or someone with more inside BP knowledge will have to take it from here.

I do know what you mean!

I’ve tried recreating your problem. I develop on a Mac and cannot replicate this issue in either Safari of Firefox (tried multiple versions of both). I’m running WPMU 2.7 and BP r1286.

Are you developing locally? Or are you on a remote server?

Has this always been an issue? Or could you properly crop before but not since a recent BuddyPress update?

I also assume that you cleared your browser’s cache and cookies, relaunched your browser and tried again. In years past, some people had issues with avatar cropping in IE. That trick seemed to usually work. However, since you’re also seeing this behavior in Firefox, that’s probably not what’s happening here.

Finally, which version of PHP are you running? Can you also check which version of the GD library is installed?

Okay, I looked at the screenshots again. It does indeed seem like you selected a square image.

On more thought, I guess it would not be possible to select anything but a square image using this feature. So, you select a square area of your image but it chops off a part of the selected area.

I assume this happens with any image you try. Have you tried using a different browser?

Socialpreneur-

I saw your screenshots in trac. Please tell me if I understand what you’re trying to do.

Based on those screenshots, it appears you are trying to crop an avatar and make it a non-square size. Is that true?

If so, avatars (as used in the WordPress world and many other places) have a square dimension. That is why the extra black bar got added to your crop. The Image processing code for changing your avatar is set to output a square-dimensioned image.

it’s buggy and needs some work!

Still work in fire fox.

it only gets the job done and it\s rather annoying to use

I too have an issue with avatars for groups… i upload the image and the intial thumbnail one works fine but the main image crop goes all funny and gives a look like this….

http://spotskenya.com/groups/another-test-group-3

it was a gif i uploaded..

both images have been inverted which is strange..

Oh, I was looking at the get_avatar() and wp_crop_image() which do handle avatars, but you are right that the crop feature is a BP enhancement. Regardless, there’s still no built-in minimum size feature in BP so that needs submitting as an enhancement suggestion – but I’m not sure if that upgrade would go better in the WPMU or the BP codebase.

I ran into a big problem with avatars: images could be uploaded, but the crop box couldn’t be adjusted (it could only be found up in the lefthand corner of the image), when you cropped anyway and went ahead the image literally bounced around the page, and the uploaded images wouldn’t show up — I’d just get a black box.

The solution, as it turned out, was to look for plugins that might be causing the conflict. For me, the Litebox plugin for WordPress was causing the problem — deactivating it enabled everything to work just fine.

Check the permissions and more importantly the ownership rights for the stuff in /blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/1

Everything from /wp-content down. Does your apache user have create rights in that dir chain? apache might be ‘nobody’ or ‘apache’ or something else entirely. Depends on your server setup.

Or like nicola suggests you’ve got some other js loading that is conflicting with the cropper.

I can’t reproduce this. I know this issue has cropped up before. I remember it now. Did you update your themes also?

There is currently an open ticket for this problem on the trac site… Andy’s working on it!

I’ve found that customized themes tend to be where the issues with avatar cropping start, and am guilty of this myself.

It usually comes from one of two things.

1. A JavaScript error in something you’ve tried to add is causing the JavaScript for the crop tool not to function.

2. Applying a CSS style to your theme that also ends up encompasing the crop tools position, so that it is out of the visible area of the photo container.

Experiencing the same problem, I’m sure there is a fix for this … but I can’t find it!!! Can someone advise?

@gpo1

Yes. In particular, if anyone is still using Windows, it would be useful to know if this problem crops up with Internet Explorer.

was this ever resolved? I’m having the exact same issue. When I go to upload an avatar, the picture shows up perfectly, however when i try to crop the image, the “crop” button just takes me to the next screen to “crop” the smaller image…when i click that, both avatars turn black, and that’s it.

I’m having the same issue. But I have another problem (sorry for my bad english) … the other problem is that after croping the large image, and hit “continue”, it sends mi to a error page http://www.example.com/activate?key=7eceeb07e9659d4a&cropped=true … If i refresh, it goes back to homepage the user is registerd ok, and the avatar is ok …

the solve: “kkkforkkk: you are missing wp_nonce() calls. ” said Andy, but … where can i find this nonce calls? … i have uploades the latest version of bp and templates!

thanks!

Hi! … first of all, sorry for my bad english!

I’m on a linux server, y have MU 2.7.1 and BP last svn, so i have all the last versions.

Mi GD library (i think):

GD Support enabled

GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)

FreeType Support enabled

FreeType Linkage with freetype

FreeType Version 2.1.7

T1Lib Support enabled

GIF Read Support enabled

GIF Create Support enabled

JPG Support enabled

PNG Support enabled

WBMP Support enabled

XBM Support enabled

BUt…

I’m having a problem with de avatars at the registration of a new user, and at the creation of a new group. It’s strange because:

At registration, every works fine, but, when i must select de mini avatar something strange happens with the arrow to chosse my part of selection … but i can continue … then, i chosse the big avatar without problems … but, after this, when i continue to finish registration, it goes to this location http://www.example.com/activate?key=7eceeb07e9659d4a&cropped=true and doesn’t find any page there … So, I refresh the page, and it goes to the homepage example.com, and the registrated user is ok! he can login, he has the avatar fine … everything! whats can happen?

With de groups happen this:

When i create a group, in the step of uploading an avatar every works fine, the upload, the the mini avatar selection is fine too, and finally when i choose de big avatar selection and click on “continue” to last step (invitation steps) it sends me a 505 error sometimes or a “are sure? try again” page. (it happens in here: example.com/members/admin/groups/create/step/3). So i must use a default group avatar to create, is the only way to create the grupo.

After this if i go to config of this group i just create, and i go to change the avatar for a new one (not a default one), i can do it without problem…

The change of avatar works with this: example.com/groups/groupname/admin/group-avatar, and it works fine … the error of the gruops aparently is with de step 3 of group creation (but what can i do with it?) and the error of registration avatar i have no idea.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

LEandro from Argentina!

GRACIAS!