I am using bbpress in conjunction with buddypress and I noticed that the forums have different avatars for users than their profile avatar. Is there a way to use the avatars from buddypress and not from bbpress?

I found this topic and its exactly what I’m referring too, but it was never marked as resolved and the answer was only for replies. The code snippet in this post works for me, but I need it to go further and apply to all avatars. I tried adding a filter to ‘bbp_get_current_user_avatar’ but I can’t get it to work.

Wordpress, buddypress, and bbpress are all up-to-date – I also have the Youzer plugin installed

Thanks in advance!

[@jbrandsma Participant 5 years, 3 months ago]

Welp.. I figured it out. Here is the code that I placed in my theme’s function.php file so that all avatars are rendered correctly:

function jb_get_bp_user_avatar($avatar, $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt)
{
    if (is_numeric($id_or_email)) {
        $id = (int) $id_or_email;
        $user = get_user_by('id', $id);
    } elseif (is_object($id_or_email)) {
        if (!empty($id_or_email->user_id)) {
            $id = (int) $id_or_email->user_id;
            $user = get_user_by('id', $id);
        }
    } else {
        $user = get_user_by('email', $id_or_email);
    }
    if ($user && is_object($user)) {
        $avatar = bp_core_fetch_avatar(array('item_id' => $user->ID));
    }
    return $avatar;
}
add_filter('get_avatar', 'jb_get_bp_user_avatar', 10000, 5);

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 3 months ago]

great – thanks for posting the solution

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

Hey this doesn’t seems to work for me.
Currently I am using following plugins.
* bbPress
* BuddyPress
* Ultimate Member

For all bbPress widgets and shortcode I am unable to force BuddyPress user profile pic.
Can anyone please guide me what am I missing?

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

Hi,
Any update on this…
Thanks

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @robin-w
Any comments from you would be really helpfull.
Thanks

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 9 months ago]

so it works except widgets and shortcode? (and which shortcode?)

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

I have just found that it works perfectly if I disable Ultimate Member Plugin.
I don’t even require above code and all the user profile pics seems to be working properly.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 9 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed !!

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you @robin-w

[@vinoj Participant 3 years, 9 months ago]

Hi
I have received solution from UM support.
If you want to use UM plugin with bbPress & BuddyPress you just have to remove filter to disable UM avatar
Checkout this link for more details.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-bbpress-widget-shows-different-profile-pics-with-um-plugin/