Change gravatar size in bbPress theme

Here is a quick post on how you can change the size of the gravatar size on your bbPress forums within your theme and not touching any of its core files.

By default the gravatar is of size 48px (image of 48 X 48) and here we are going to change it to something big, lets say a 100px gravatar (image of 100 X 100).

In your theme, open post.php for editing and if its not there, then copy post.php from the default theme to your theme folder and proceed.

In bbPress 1.0+ you will find the function post_author_avatar_link();

and in previous versions, you will find the function post_author_avatar();

Now change it to post_author_avatar_link($size=’100′);

or post_author_avatar($size=’100′); as your case may be.

Save the file and see the changes. Now replace 100 with any size of your liking. The max size of a gravatar is 512px.

Similarly if you want to chnage the gravatar size on the Profile page, then change

<?php if ( $avatar = bb_get_avatar( $user->ID) ) : ?>

to

<?php if ( $avatar = bb_get_avatar( $user->ID,$size=’150′ ) ) : ?>

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