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changing default avatar – codex info not working

hanza3
Participant

@hanza3

6 years, 1 month ago
I’ve setup my bp-custom.php file in the plugins folder, and inserted the code defined on this page of the codex to change the default avatar but nothing changed.

Here’s the specific code to change the default avatar:
```
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', 'http://example.com/default-avatar.jpg' );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'http://example.com/default-avatar-thumb.jpg' );
```
It seems I’m not the only one who has experienced an issue with this, any thoughts why it won’t work? Is gravatar somehow to blame?

Tested with wordpress “twenty” theme, no change.

Buddypress version: 2.9.3
Wordpress version: 4.9.4

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Venutius
Moderator

@venutius

6 years ago

Yep this looks like it’s broken, I’ve raised a trac ticket for it here.
Jonas
Participant

@jonaskjodt

6 years ago
You could probably do something like the following to achieve it as well
```
function hanza3_add_default_avatar( $url ){
	return get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/images/imagename.jpg';
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_mysteryman_src', 'hanza3_add_default_avatar' );
```
Jonas
Participant

@jonaskjodt

6 years ago
Digging into it a bit more, it seems gravatars influences it. You can disable the gravatars like so

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

followed by using your original code
```
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT', 'http://example.com/default-avatar.jpg' );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB', 'http://example.com/default-avatar-thumb.jpg' );
```

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