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Unable to update user avatar as user

  • @carpoa

    Participant

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Dear Community,

    I’m new to BuddyPress and by the look of it, it’s a powerful feature within my community but… When I’m signed in as a user (not admin), I’m unable to upload/update my avatar through the edit profile page. As admin I can change everyone’s avatar, but that’s far too much work. I’ve done some Google search but can’t find the solution yet. Most of the answers are like “You have to enable it in the BP options menu”, but I’ve done that (see screenshot). Other answers were that some people were missing the bp-xprofile.php file, I don’t have that file either but can’t find where to download it. And this is strange for me as well because I’ve downloaded it directly from this site and from the WordPress Plugin search engine.

    So does anybody know the answer to this matter?

    Screenshots:

    The available php files from the buddypress plugin
    The available php files from the buddypress plugin

    No overlay when I want to update avatar
    No overlay when I want to update avatar

    I got the proper options enabled
    I got the proper options enabled

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  • @danbp

    Participant

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    not clear what is your issue.

    First screenshot is related to Core bp-xprofile folder. No interest for this case, we have already BP installed.

    Please read Getting Started guide and ensure anything is correctly setup first.
    Use one of WP built-in theme while installing/testing BP.

    As of 2.2.3, BP use a new feature for users profile phot, so you can’t find much related informations about this feature on Google or elsewhere…

    Also, note that users can modify their photo on front-end from their profile page, whithout accessing WP’s dashboard.

    Getting Started

    @carpoa

    Participant

    10 years, 7 months ago

    @danbp I mean’t the front-end upload. But I’ve found the issue. In the custom theme I bought is another Buddypress folder which overrides (I guess) the plugin, because when I remove the folder from the theme, I get a seperate menu item which links to uploading a new avatar.

    The custom theme is Blackfyre by Skywarrior, did anybody else had this issue or knows the solution? Maybe like which function I need to include in the custom BuddyPress?

    @shanebp

    Moderator

    10 years, 7 months ago

    The theme author is over loading the BP templates.

    Sounds like the theme hasn’t been updated to work with the latest BP.

    Instead of deleting the whole [your-theme]\buddypress
    Try just deleting this file:
    [your-theme]\buddypress\members\single\profile\change-avatar.php

    If that doesn’t work, try deleting some more profile related files in [your-theme]\buddypress.

    And tell the author about your issues.

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