Hi Sarah,
The reason you don’t see HTML tags in the description there is because BBPress uses the WP_User class to get that information from the database. And in the case of the user description, the class itself dose something like this:
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if ( 'description' == $field )
$value = esc_html( $value ); // textarea_escaped?
Basically it removes all HTML from the description and then prints it to the screen.
The only way to avoid this?? to either change the bbpress template or with code like so:
* Create an empty plugin like this: https://gist.github.com/sareiodata/76f701e01db6685829db
* Add the following code to the end of it:
function wppbc_show_bbpress_user_description_html( $value, $field, $filter ){
// Get the displayed user
$user = bbpress()->displayed_user;
if( $field == 'description' ){
$value = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'description', true);
}
return $value;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_displayed_user_field', 'wppbc_show_bbpress_user_description_html', 10, 3);
* Install this plugin via FTP (copy it inside wp-content/plugins) or create a zip archive with it and install it via the WordPress plugin upload functionality
Please note I haven’t tested it but it should work just fine!
??If you need help with any of this, please let me know!
