Topic: Avatars / profile-pictures

Avatars / profile-pictures

Ezd
Participant

@ezd

15 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

I think its nice that BB uses Avatars, but since you have to goto a whole different site, sign-up for a user name (Which has to be unique) it can really take som time to get through that process. Especially finding a username which is unique.

Is it possible to make it more easy, just using a profile picture that you upload from your computer? Maybe even have an upload-profile picture box at the sign-up form so your picuture is already there when you login the first time?

Regards

ezd

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Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

15 years, 8 months ago

You can upload an avatar image of your choosing either during the signup process or afterwards by going to your profile > change avatar. Did this change somehow and I haven’t noticed?

Ezd
Participant

@ezd

15 years, 8 months ago

Hi Burtadsit,

Your right, on the RC-1 I can upload an avatar during signup, I can also change it afterwards with a new image in my profile… Funny I didnt see that!

I guess it confused me a little that I was unable to change my avatar on the new buddypress.org layout without going to gravatar.com. (Not like RC-1)

It says:

Your avatar will be used on your profile and throughout the site.

Avatars on BuddyPress are controlled by the globally recognized avatar system (Gravatar). To change or create a new avatar for your account, please login or signup at: http://gravatar.com.

If you are signing up for a new Gravatar account, make sure you use the same email address that is registered with your WordPress.org account.

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So I would have to goto gravatar.com and upload a new avatar instead of just uploading it on the buddypress site. I guess the avatars on the new layout is all controlled by gravatar.com.

Andy Peatling
Keymaster

@apeatling

15 years, 8 months ago

This is only the case on BuddyPress.org.

Ezd
Participant

@ezd

15 years, 8 months ago

Ok Andy,

Anyways, thanks for all your fantastic work on BB. Love the new buddypress.org layout. There’s some issues with the tables breaking here and there in my browser (IE7) but I guess your already aware of that.

Maythil
Participant

@maythil

14 years, 8 months ago

I have a Gravatar account with me photograph, but for the heck of me I don’t know how to put it here

michaelmarian
Participant

@michaelmarian

14 years, 8 months ago

I see that buddypress stores the images in the wp-content directory. I however cannot for the life of me find a reference in the database to the image. It simply stores the avatar a directory based on the member ID. Am I missing something?

Many thanks.

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 8 months ago

Avatars are not stored or referenced in the database.

Dudeski
Participant

@bikesbeijing

14 years, 3 months ago

Hi people, I hope you guys can help me a little bit, even though the topic is old quite old. Mine BP says exactly the same thing as EZD described. I have to go to gravatar.com etc etc. BUT, I have wordpress.com. This is really bugging me out at the moment so please help!

Ralf

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

14 years, 3 months ago

Ralf
The post you refer to is over is 16 months old(!). Please would you make a new topic with full details of your install so we can try to help. Thanks.