Wrong Avatar and Gravatar after BP update

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This post details the saga, but basically since 1.2.3, all gravatars default to the AUTHOR avatar. Which is bad :)

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/wrong-avatar-and-gravatar-after-bp-update/

Solution #2 is the best one IMO

Also, http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-1-2-4-custom-bp_avatar_url-change/ from R-a-y.

First pass at fixing broken avatars

Please test this fix possibly for 1.2.4.2.

This has fixed avatar issues for me on single and multisite installs, in both subdirectory and subdomain installations.

The problem was the method used to check the existence of avatar files was never upgraded, even though the surrounding code was.

On WP 3.0 it does not fix the problem where blog comments show the avatar of the post author and NOT the commentor.

Wrong gravatars in blog comments

This sounds really similar to bug #2288 (currently set for milestone 1.3), which describes how BP "breaks some themes that pass a user email address to get_avatar() for comments, causing the comments to display the avatar for the blog post author rather than the comment author."

I attached a patch for that bug. I don't know if it will fix this one as well.

Like rvenable said, this is a duplicate of #2288.

Confirming this is fixed after 1.2.5 update. :) Cheers!