Topic: Better avatar crop function

Better avatar crop function

@ikzitop

Member

15 years, 9 months ago

Is there a better avatar crop function / plugin available?

Buddypress uses a crop function in 2 steps but why not only use a single one?

I’m getting complains about this and want to solve this problem for my users.

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@geekjon

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

I’m wondering the same. It’s very difficult to crop an image with the current crop function.

@apeatling

Keymaster

15 years, 2 months ago

1.1 uses a new cropper and only 1 step.

@geekjon

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

Do you recommend I wait until the official release of 1.1?

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 2 months ago

If you can help it, and you are comfortable porting your theme over (eventually maybe?) then I would suggest it, yes. Estimated release for 1.1 is September 30, so it’s only a few days away.

@djpaul

Keymaster

15 years, 2 months ago

*1, unless John lives in a strange timezone

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 2 months ago

Nope, just have no idea what day it is anymore. Haha!

@takuya

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

1.1 rc got better cropping function, I mean, fixed major bugs people were reporting, right?

@thomasbp

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

I’m running 1.1 RC and can affirm the other answers. The cropping in 1.0.3 was terrible but now it works like a charm.

@lsddesign

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

im having major issues with this unfortunatly, when i upload an image it does show up, but the quality is much lower then the original file quality, plus the image is too small to crop properly.

i suggest my users using Gravatar right now, but i want to give them the oppertunity to just upload an avatar.

here’s a screengrab: http://twitpic.com/ju16r

this is when a user uploaded a picture.

i think for some reason the crop function is not working properly.

is there a solution for this?

cheers,

aron

ps: i changed my theme, if it’s a CSS error which tags in what file should i change to get this to work? i’ve changed the standard BP theme

@jeffsayre

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

@lsddesign

Which version of BuddyPress are you running? Which version of WPMU?

@lsddesign

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

Buddypress 1.1 and the most recent version of WPMU… 2.8.4 i believe

thanks!

aron

@treblamah

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

I was wondering if you’ve seen a problem with 1.1 duplicating the jcrop-holder div. Basically it shows two crop panels and one preview panel when uploading any avatar. Running a clean install of mu 2.8.4 and BP 1.1.

Click here for a Screenshot

This also happens with the new default theme.

Any pointers would be appreciated!! Thank you.

@treblamah

Participant

15 years, 2 months ago

I figured my problem out. The front-end editor plugin, when the edit site name and description functions are activated (which they are by default), the header is duplicated, which loaded the crop js twice. Disable that or switch to inline editor and everything is fine.