Topic: Avatars aren’t shown after the upgrade

Avatars aren’t shown after the upgrade

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Hi. I know there are other topics about that issue but this is new. Because I tried everything to solve that avatar issue but it still has a problem.

I’ve upgraded to 1.2.5 from 1.2.4.1 and now some of the group and member avatars are gone.

I tried to fix with .htaccess but it didnt work.

How can i solve that? thanks.

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years, 5 months ago

For BP_AVATAR_URL, try:
http://example.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files

For BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH, you can try the snippet posted by 3dperuna:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-1-2-4-custom-bp_avatar_url-change/#post-56257

But in some cases, that isn’t accurate. Only you can enter in the correct filepath.

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

I tried several snippets. It’s not working

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

May it be because of I have two blogs installed? The other blog doesn’t use BP. It’s just a blog to post our new developments and news. May it be the reason?

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@r-a-y The second blog has another upload directory for itself. So it’s ok to have another blog. But what’s the problem with my root blog?

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

I have made fresh, clean installs of WP 3 as multisite and Buddypress 1.2.5. While everything works OK avatars uploaded at BP are not shown in WP blog, blog comments etc

I posted a demo link at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-bp-avatars-in-wordpress-blogs/

Does the demo version ay buddypress.og works okay with WP multisite blogs – is there any demo?
This bug is actually making Buddypress 1.2.5 unusable.

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Still has the same problem…

@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years, 5 months ago

@ronia , @alierkurt –
Try the newest release — BP 1.2.5.1 — and see if that works:
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.2.5.1.zip

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

I applied the patch but it didn’t work

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@r-a-y I also applied 1.2.5.2 and nothing changed…

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Wordpress 3
Buddypress 1.2.5.2
Fresh new installations
(No upgrades, no conversions, just Multisite/multiblog and subdirectory from the beginning)
Sample blog post – http://kmela.net/kc/newdemo/2010/07/06/new-post-one/
Sample activity stream – http://kmela.net/kc/members/newdemo/activity/

User newdemo is confused as she uploaded her avatar from BP but cannot see that in her blog comment

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Well ronia, at least you can see the avatars I can’t see my own.

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Yep Alice but that does not solve the problem. This bug was not there prior to 1.2.4 perhaps so users who were using those cannot upgrade now because the members will be critically affected at loss of their photo in blog posts, comments etc.

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

Since Activity streams and Friends are out of the box features these days in popular soft-wares whether complex like Elgg or simple like Vanilla forums, I think it is high-time BP is integrated out of box in WP 3 now that WPMU and WP merged. It should not be too difficult where Matt and Andy are there – if they sit together this can be solved even by today evening

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

yeah and im having the problem since yesterday. i had to shut my site down and its now useless because of that issue. i really need a solution

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

14 years, 5 months ago

The pictures aren’t physically lost or deleted. There is something in the configuration that is causing it to miss where the image is, and it’s falling back on the gravatar.

I’m mobile right now, but I’d like to personally help one of you fix this, so that we can get avatars resolved asap.

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@johnjamesjacoby Yeah John. I see the files in the directory but there is a problem to reach them. When I try to go to the url files/avatar.jpg it says “Not Found”. I try to go to the wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatar.jpg it says “Not found” again. So there’s a huge problem and ? really need to fix it. Hope you help me asap because my site is still down.

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

OK. I’ve uploaded my all subdomain fiels to the root and it works now. I’ve upgraded to 1.2.5.2 and now it works. But I still have some avatar issues. For example, I can’t see some of my group and member avatar thumbnails. When I try to re-upload an avatar, it works.

@dougdaulton

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@john-james … I have the same issue. Here is the thread in question if you find it helpful.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/missing-avatars-with-wp3-0-bp1-2-5/?_wpnonce=5fc194c962&topic_page=2&num=15#post-62071

@bennadler

Member

14 years, 5 months ago

It has to do with where Buddypress is looking for your uploaded avatars. By default, it is pointed to the right place. I don’t remember the exact code to fix it, but I’ll look it up right now to help you out. It fixed the issue for me, so hopefully it will for you. Be back soon.

@bennadler

Member

14 years, 5 months ago

Here is the code I used. Put this in bp-custom.php in your plugins folder, and it should correctly display your user’s BP avatar across an entire WordPress MU install. Lemme know if it works!

function nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct($path){
if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){
$path = ABSPATH . get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘upload_path’ );
}
return $path;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_upload_path’, ‘nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct’, 1);

function nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct($url){
if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){
$url = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘siteurl’ ) . “/wp-content/uploads/”;
}
return $url;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_url’, ‘nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct’, 1);

Originally found here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-avatars-arent-shown-on-single-blogs-in-wpmu/

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@bennadler – Thanks! But it is not WordPress MU – it is WordPress 3 as multisite (sub directories) – the code is not working.

@bennadler

Member

14 years, 5 months ago

Sorry, that is what I meant. I am using WordPress 3.0 with multisite activated. That is the exact code. I am running WordPress 3.0 and Buddypress 1.2.5. I have this code installed in my bp-custom.php file and it activates the avatars across the whole domain. Are you absolutely sure you have this all in the right place? Did you put wrapped around the code I provided?

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@bennadler – Thanks again. Where exactly you have put bp-custom.php ? I tried in all the documented paths, and yes php code wrapped around. My test site is ** subdirectory ** based and cannot get to work. A link to your active site will be appreciated.

@alierkurt

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@ronia you should put bp-custom.php file into the wp-content/plugins folder. Don’t put it into plugins/buddypress. Becasue bp-custom is a custom file which runs before your BP plugin. So that’s how it works.

@bennadler I didn’t use your code but I re-uploaded all files into the root directory and it worked.

@ronia

Participant

14 years, 5 months ago

@alicethewonder – I did . Still no luck. I am using *subdirectory* type of Multisite. BP Avatar works fine in activity, BP profile etc but Gravatar still shows up in WP blog comments. Can the php gurus pleaseee help!