The solution I posted worked and I don't know what to tell you... Maybe you can put a pop-up link instead of using thickbox/prettyphoto/any other overlay plugin.

1. In single-user-edit.php, Before

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'single-user-edit' ); ?>

add: http://pastebin.com/rfLFaRvq

2. In style.css add:

.bbp-single-user-edit { position:relative; }
#user-avatar-display { position:absolute; top:160px; right:20px; text-align:center; width:155px; }
#user-avatar-display a { color:#000; text-decoration:none; text-align:center; };

3. In functions.php add: http://pastebin.com/YfbiN65x

That's it.
Original solution: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-front-end-upload?replies=17#post-2186636
It works great for me. Cheers.

should edit avatar-upload.php
changing line 7, the following

do bb_auth (); / / logged in?

with

bb_auth ('logged_in'); / / logged in?

Please let me know, if this work for you, thanks

best,
Lesley

I've narrowed it down to the bb_auth call in the avatar-upload.php file line 7. The cookies - at least for me, an admin - seem wrong. I'm going to clear my cookies and try it again. I'm also going to test with a different user - not an admin and see how that goes.

I'm just setting up BBPress, as a first ever bulletin board and am beginning to think that this software is waaaayyy to complex/geeky. No Avatars on a web-forum software???

Grant

Anyone know why? Really need this plugin!!!

would be far better to start a new thread.

Please start a new thread!

PLEASE START A NEW THREAD.
This one started in February 2009, It's June 2010!!!

would be far better to start a new thread.

Please start a new thread!

...I'll let you know if I figure it out, lol.. if I don't give up shortly and go back to phpbb. ;)

4 Open bb-config.php (in the bbpress folder) do the same thing here. With the SAME keys you put in the wordpress file put in the bb-config file around line # 41-45. ***You have to add BB_ to the front of the names. Example: BB_AUTH_KEY to all eight.*** Save. Keep the file open for now.

I've not seen anything about messy cross-domain integrations, so I thought I'd share my method. I'm using WordPress 2.8.6 with BBPress 1.0.2. Your mileage may vary on other versions. I suspect this method is not valid for 2.5/0.9.

The setup:
- example.com/blog
- example.com/forum
- example.org/forum

With shared user tables and database.

The config AUTH_KEY/SECURE_AUTH_KEY/LOGGED_IN_KEY should be the same for all (remember to add BB_ to the forum config files). Within the BBPress admin intergation, have the same auth/secure/logged in values for all forums (remember it's the value shown within the WordPress options screen, not the values in the config files).

In this case cookiepath should be '/' ($bb->cookiepath = '/'; // in bb-config and, define('COOKIEPATH', '/'); // in wp-config). Set other $bb->style configurations as you wish.

Basically, everything is the same. Except: The Cookie Domain must be explicitly set**. And not always set to the same value.

In example.com/blog's wp-config add: define('COOKIE_DOMAIN','.example.com');

In example.com/forum's bb-config add: $bb->cookiedomain = '.example.com';

So far, so simple.

Now, in theory, example.org/forum can be set with $bb->cookiedomain = '.example.com'; // But I've not tried. Paranoid browsers would surely reject this. Instinctively having the forum rely on something that might look like a security risk is bad.

Instead, try adding this to example.org/forum's bb-config: $bb->cookiedomain = '.example.org'; // Users will still need to log in separately when they switch domain, but all the other integration features seem to be fooled, with no adverse problems.

I'd welcome any feedback on this method. I'm still not sure this is the best approach.

( ** Not setting the cookie domain appears to work, until the user switches between domains - example.com/blog doesn't simply fail to find a cookie set by example.org/forum, it may fail a fresh blog login until cookies are cleared. I'm not sure exactly what's happening, but it's messy.)

But i look very carefully into the cookies.

I found 2 differences!
First for wordpress cookies
login cookie is with name wordpress_logged_in_xxxxx and path /
and other cookies are with path /wp-admin, wp-content/plugins, /forum/bb-admin /forum/bb-plugins

and for the bbpress cookies are

wordpress_xxxxxxx and path /
and other cookies are with path
website.com/wp-admin
website.comwp-content/plugins
website.com/forum/bb-admin
website.com/forum/bb-plugins

I think this is the problem, but I don't knew how to fix it, to have path without the host in bbpress cookies...

delete what you pasted and follow these instructions

6 Login to your wordpress dashboard. Go to Plugins->Add New-> search for "bbPress Integration" it should be the first one. Install it and activate.
7 Go to Settings-> bbPress Integration. Enter the bbPress URL without the www. Your plugins URL leave blank. Click on Save Changes. On the bottom box you'll see some text copy it. Most likely it will say "define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );"

There should be only ONE line in both files. Make sure you have the correct checkbox that says wordpress not wordpressmu