How does one get rid of or change the Event Gravatar? What is the rational for it?

[Joe Hoover]

I have been looking through the documentation but have found nothing
on it. Is it suppose to be there or am I doing something wrong?
Example:
http://discussions.mnhs.org/mnlocalhistory/events/council-for-minnesota-archaeology-2011-conference/home/

[Kunal Bhalla]

The gravatars are used as placeholders instead if Event post thumbnails. You could upload a thumbnail for the event and that would be used instead.

Kunal

[Joe Hoover]

Hmmmm, where do I add the event thumbnail? I have tried adding it to
the "Set featured image" and all it does is put it at the bottom of
the post and the Gravatar is still there. Also I see nothing when
creating a new event to add a thumbnail it appears I can only add it
to an event that is already created.
Is there a way to disable the gravatar or change the default image to
something of your own choosing?

> >http://discussions.mnhs.org/mnlocalhistory/events/council-for-minneso...

[Kunal Bhalla]

Hmm—there might be some trouble with the theme working properly with the front end event post editor. Try setting the featured image thru wp-admin.

Kunal

[Joe Hoover]

Where? Through the "Add an Image" icon/link? It only inserts in into
the event copy (at least for me).

On Feb 9, 9:39 am, Kunal Bhalla <bhalla.ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm—there might be some trouble with the theme working properly with the
> front end event post editor. Try setting the featured image thru wp-admin.
>
> Kunal

> ..

[Joe Hoover]

FYI: I am not seeing any "Thumbnail -Set featured image" box like on

front end event post editor.

[Kunal Bhalla]

Try switching themes temporarily. Your current theme might not be enabling post specific images and that would be causing the problem.
Otherwise you should be getting a featured image box at the very least while editing an event through wp-admin, though it should also be appearing on the front end editor.

Kunal

[power programmerx]

Set featured image does not work,  when you click it, your media box  opens but you cant set featured only insert to post

i modified the custom posts  tab.php  to include my own default image (but they are all the same) but it gets rid of silly avatars

// Set gravatar type

if ( empty( $bp->grav_default->{$object} ) )

$default_grav = '/images/gcalendar.png';

else if ( 'mystery' == $bp->grav_default->{$object} )

$default_grav = apply_filters( 'bp_core_mysteryman_src', BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT, $grav_size );

else

$default_grav = $bp->grav_default->{$object};

$email = "{$itemid}-{$object}@{$bp->root_domain}";

// Set host based on if using ssl

if ( is_ssl() )

$host = 'http://faithnet.gonetweb.com';

else

$host = 'http://faithnet.gonetweb.com';

// Filter gravatar vars

$gravatar = apply_filters( 'bp_gravatar_url', $host ) . $default_grav;

[power programmerx]

even though in my limited knowledge of php i fixed this, i would still like to use a custom field point to an image url and then resize the link to width 50 height 50

[Mienrado Acosta]

Thanks for this. Where is this .php file located that I need to add your code to?