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Sure.. when you have Photon running and Buddypress running as well, when you go to add an avatar for your profile or for a group, you can’t just upload an image or grab one from your library, Buddypress always forces you to CROP the image, so in essence you are forced to edit the image every time. Unfortunately, the second you upload the image Photon has then taken over the URL of the image and you end up at a broken image cropper tool, and you can’t just save the image as Buddypress wants you to crop that image first, then save it.

Here are screenshots of what I’m talking about:

Buddypress Group Avatar Add page WITH your SKIP filter running. – Works perfectly.

Buddypress Group Avatar Add page WITH Photon running and NO SKIP filter. – Broken.

Here is a screenshot of the page source of the image URL of the broken avatar edit screen.

When you guys created Photon, you probably had the same issue happen in the WP- Admin area of WordPress while uploading images, so you probably temporarily disable Photon while in the WP-Admin area, unfortunately, Buddypress stuff occurs on the Front-End of the site, so the WP-Admin disable is not kicking in. (My guess)

Wow, that works perfectly! I can even disable photon on all pages if I want with – is_page() (not sure why you’d do that)… BUT.. and this is the whole reason why I found this issue in the first place, since PHOTON breaks uploading or editing avatars in Buddypress, this solves the problem! By putting the above function in your functions.php (or bp-custom.php one or the other) customized as such:

function jeherve_disable_photon_on_page( $skip, $src ) {

	if ( bp_is_group_admin_page( 'group-avatar' ) || bp_is_change_avatar() ) {
		// Skip the images
		return true;
	}
	return $skip;

}
add_filter( 'jetpack_photon_skip_image', 'jeherve_disable_photon_on_page', 10, 3 );

This fixes the problem with Buddypress and allows you to use Photon on your WordPress site without breaking the avatar functions in Buddypress! Yeah!

Jeremy, do you want to pass this info on to the Buddypress people? Or should I post this solution somewhere to let Buddypress people know this? Or is it good enough being here in the post?

Thanks for your help!

Charles

Yes.. I had Photon turned off.. sorry about that. I just turned it back on.

I have this in my functions.php right now:

function remove_jetpack_image_downsize() {
	global $post;
	if ( is_single(2282) || is_page(198) || is_single(1614) )
		return true;
	else
       return false;
}
add_filter('jetpack_photon_override_image_downsize', 'remove_jetpack_image_downsize');

You’ll see that the filter has properly turned off Photon for the posts listed:

http://underground.net/?p=2282 & http://underground.net/?p=1614 but not http://underground.net/?p=198

Thanks
Charles

Cancel this.. it appears that Jetpack was not resizing the image as it was buried in CSS of sorts, I guess… so I tweaked things and it works great:

$style = '';
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
	$thumbnail_url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id() );
	$style = esc_url( $thumbnail_url );
}
?>

<section id="intro" class="marquee"style="background-image: url(<?php echo apply_filters( 'jetpack_photon_url', $style, 'resize=1260%2C700' ); ?>)">

Works great now!

On a side note.. it looks like I broke the forum somehow!