P.S.: I am using WordPress 4.9.8…with the most current version of BuddyPress available at this time.

I am also using bbPress — also the most current version available at this time. 🙂

Thanks for the response, Brajesh!

I have nooooo idea how to use pastebin, so I’ll just share my code here.

I had to create a bp-custom file to do this, by the way; I used only your code in the bp-custom file. Of course I had to use my site’s website addresses (and the link to my media library, etc.)…but I tested it out as closely to your guidelines as I could. Even set up member classes to be ‘male’, ‘female’, and ‘unknown’ in the plugins….just so I could do it as closely to your tutorial as possible.

For the sake of privacy, because this is a project still under development and I do not wish to share my actual website address, I’ve changed my site name to say ‘sitenameprivate’ instead of the domain’s true name. But everything else is just as the actual bp-custom file is in my website.

Here goes:

<?php

// turn off gravatars 

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

//set default use of avatar based on member type

function buddydev_set_default_use_avatar_based_on_member_type( $avatar, $params) {
    $user_id = $params['item_id'];
 
    $type = bp_get_member_type( $user_id );
 
    if ( $type == 'male' ) {
        $avatar = 'https://sitenameprivate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/male.png';// get_template_directory_uri() . 'male.png';
    } elseif( $type =='female' ) {
        $avatar = 'https://sitenameprivate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/female.png';//get_template_directory_uri() . 'female.png';
    } else {
        $avatar = 'https://sitenameprivate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unknown.png';//get_template_directory_uri() . 'unkown.png';;
    }
 
    return $avatar;
}
 
add_filter( 'bp_core_default_avatar_user', 'buddydev_set_default_use_avatar_based_on_member_type', 10, 2 );

?> 

Please keep in mind that I used the plugins you mentioned in your tutorial (the link I mentioned when I posted my request for assistance). They look like great plugins; very useful. Lots of potential here. I hope I we can find a way for me to use them on my site! 🙂

Thanks again for all your assistance, Brajesh. I greatly appreciate any help you can provide. 😀

Just checked — the first line, <?php is at the very top of the file…with no spaces above it. And there are no spaces after the ?> either.