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Hello BuddyPress,

First of all thank you for your work on creating the plugin.

Second, I have a problem with a client’s website I’m currently building. We have run into an issue that when, uploading avatars by mobile, it compresses down the picture so much that it becomes blurry. It is not because of the image used. I have made sure I’ve uploaded a huge resolution photo to discard that.

Where I see the problem is, BuddyPress somehow compresses the image to make it fit the phone screen, (it maybe makes it 150×150 for what I’ve read so far in the documentation), and then gives you the option to crop the image.

The expect behaviour should be that the image retains the original “full” size, but shrinks down so it fits the mobile screen and you can crop/select whatever you desire.

I hope I am explaining myself.

I see that this bug is not new and has been around for several years, and so far, I haven’t been able to find any fix other than what is explained here, but then it stops the image from being responsive. (Anything further than 600 breaks the image hence you can’t see what you’re cropping).

Changing default avatar size cropped/used by BuddyPress

Is there a way to fix this, so the image retains the full quality when uploaded? I’ve set in place filters to retain 100% of quality image so wordpress doesn’t reescale them either (But you can give me more tips regarding this as well). An alternative solution would be to just disable the cropping part when uploading avatar.

Currently I’m using the theme called Gwangi, but it doesn’t matter, because it also happens with Twenty-Twenty-One, and the forked version of buddypress Buddyboss. I’m guessing all the webpages built with buddypress have the same issue, as the ones I’ve checked so far run into the same problem. I’ve disabled CDN and everything else that could cause caching and rendering of images.

Thank you for your time.

Hi,

Members are suddenly unable to upload a profile picture. I tried for them and then I get the following error: “There was a problem cropping your profile photo.” I tried to disable a whole bunch of plugins but that doesn’t seem to resolve the problem.

This happens on http://www.aspie-singles.com

With kind regards,

Douwe

I noticed that many users have problems to upload their userpic,
because they have to crop it before it will be uploaded to their profile.
Many users do not understand it right and, to be honest, it is very tricky to do it on a smartphone.

Is there a way to avoid the cropping?
The image should be used as it is after the upload…

is there a way which allows skipping of avatar cropping

Hi

When I upload a profile picture it will upload the picture but will not allow me to crop it. The is a tiny black box in the top left corner which when hovered over gives the ‘change size’ arrows, but when clicked it gets even smaller and the arrows do not appear.

I am using the latest versions of WordPress and Buddypress.

I have tried the following:
* Used default 2017 theme
* Disabled all plugins except buddypress
* Used different browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari

When searching this forum I have seen that this is a known problem but have been unable to find any solution.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

As a Web Designer, am currently building a social networking site for a client of mine and we were initially using Buddypress..

However along the line, we discover the profile photo part seems like an issue as people would have to crop their photo (which is a pain) before it works

Any code on how to skip the cropping photo part?

Hi everyone hope this may help other members. Concerning cropping image problem: if you have installed in your website any lazy loading image plugin this may get conflicts with Buddypress image cropping system.
Disable that plugin, in my case BJ Lazy Load, and Buddypress cropping and uploading image system works fine.

Now my question is: what are the CSS classes about images cropping objects in Buddypress? Cause BJ lazy load allow us to exclude some images via CSS and that is perfect to get BJ lazy load plugin back ad Buddypress a both.

Thank you guys! 🙂