I’m using the wordpress theme Academy which uses the wordpress profile and gives the ability to upload an avatar. I want this same avatar to carry over to the user’s bbpress avatar. Therefore, when a new uploads a new avatar to the wordpress profile, it’s automatically displayed in bbpress.

ONE IMPORTANT POINT. When I click “edit” on my bbpress forum profile, it does show the wordpress avatar as the “profile photo” with a browse button, but the main avatar in the upper left-hand corner still shows the default gray image.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

You’ll need to refer this to the theme authors as it’s a paid theme, so we can’t load it and look at what it’s doing.