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Only administrator can change avatar…

@joshanderton

Participant

8 years, 11 months ago

Hello,

My website that is using BuddyPress (not using BBPress) is not allowing subscribers to change their avatars in their BuddyPress extended profile (getting the error message: “An error occurred. Please try again later.”). Only users with the Administrator user role are able to change their avatars.

I have tried deactivating all plugins and this did not fix the issue. I have even installed a user role editor plugin and matched the subscriber role with all of the capabilities of the admin role (only for testing).

What makes it even more strange is that I have aa “preview” site running in a subdirectory of the main site where only subscribers are unable to upload an avatar (Contributors, Authors, Editors, etc. are all able to upload avatars).

The only other possible cause that I can think of is a file permissions issue (anybody know which file(s) would be the problem in this case).

Any help would be so appreciated!

Thanks,
Joshua

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@danbp

Participant

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

review BuddyPress settings page for:
Profile Settings
Profile Photo Uploads [x] Allow registered members to upload avatars

@joshanderton

Participant

8 years, 11 months ago

Thanks so much for your response.

I spoke too soon though, the problem was due to a redirect I had created so that non-admins could not view the admin panel.

Thanks again!
@andrewgtibbetts

Participant

8 years, 11 months ago
Oooooh, this must be my issue.
Here is my current redirect:
```
// keep the 'normies' out of the admin
add_action( 'admin_init', 'custom_admin_init', 1 );
function custom_admin_init() {

	if ( is_user_logged_in() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {

		wp_redirect( home_url() ); die();
	}
}
```
Were you able to figure out how to keep the redirect but allow the uploads?

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