[stephonomon]

Is there a way to tell BBPress to use an advanced custom field image instead of the default user image?

[Robin W]

bbpress uses the wordpress default avatar as set in

dashboard>settings>discussion

There are plugins that let you add additional defaults eg

Add New Default Avatar

or use code in your functions file or a snippets plugin (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/) such as

add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'mytheme_default_avatar' );
function mytheme_default_avatar( $avatar_defaults ) 
{
    $avatar = get_option('avatar_default');

    $new_avatar_url = get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/default_avatar.png';

    if( $avatar != $new_avatar_url )
    {
        update_option( 'avatar_default', $new_avatar_url );
    }

    $avatar_defaults[ $new_avatar_url ] = 'Default Avatar';
    return $avatar_defaults;
}