wp-admin layout - blank spaces and avatar area strange floats

[iosconsultancy]

With a fresh install of wordpress 3.3.1 and buddy press 3.5.5 on wordpress with networking enabled there are a couple of layout bugs in wp-admin. Please see video at this URL for demonstration of complete (out of box) setup to demo bug

​http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GV3-Y_9vtw

[DJPaul]

I can't recreate. Can you check for any message in your server's PHP error log (ask your host for support if you do not know how to do this)? Are you able to use Developer Tools in any modern web browser to 'inspect element' on that extra space, and figure out where the extra styling is coming from?

[boonebgorges]

The avatar bug is due to a problem in WordPress which is now resolved. ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19539

The whitespace issue happens when you are using the BuddyBar. At this point, I think we are not doing any more substantive updates to the BuddyBar code (and fixing this would require a bunch of conditional logic to check for WP versions) because BuddyBar support is going to be phased out starting with BP 1.6. So I'm going to mark wontfix for that part of the issue.

If someone wants to take the time to produce a non-destructive, non-obtrusive patch to fix the whitespace issue (and can verify that it works on all relevant WP-BP version combos), feel free to reopen the ticket.

Thanks for the report, iosconsultancy.