Add line breaks to frontend's biographical info

Hi,

Basically WordPress strips html tags from the bio on save.

So what you can do is try this to change this using a bit of code that you can add to your theme’s function.php or in a custom plugin:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/enable-or-disable-all-html-tags-in-wordpress-author-biography-profiles

Can you please send me a link to the profile page you sent me a screenshot of?

Perhaps I can figure out what’s causing it.

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!