About: Steve Schafer

Thank you Cristian. This is exactly the info I needed on this issue. I am not sure why it would be a security issue, seeing as authors can publish posts, using a wysiwyg (and therefore, full html), but I will research that aspect of it and see if I can find a happy medium.

Thanks again for your help.

Yea, I have looked everywhere… Trust me… up to, and including the bp forums and beyond. I would LOVE to know how you guys did it. lol

Thank you for your response. I apologize for my earlier tone. As I said, I was very frustrated. The code you posted worked like a charm for the dynamic link, and was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

As for the text box… I set all the settings as you described. I can’t get them all into one screenshot, but I set up an extra field in s2member. I set it to a multi-line text area, anything goes, available to everyone, etc… All of the checkboxes for buddypress integration are checked.

I logged in as a regular user, edited the profile through the s2member pop-up and entered:

<b>Test</b>
<i> test italic</i>
<a href="http://free-zilla.com">website in href</a>
http://free-zilla.com <- is this clickable?

Upon viewing the profile, I can still see all of the html tags. I logged out, logged in as admin and checked, and I can see the tags as well. Viewing the profile looks exactly like the code I posted above. I went to my profile as admin, and tried the edit profile from the buddypress edit profile area, with the same results.

You can see the results here:
http://free-zilla.com/members/steve/profile/

and here:
http://free-zilla.com/members/sjschafer/profile/

The strange things is that, if I create the profile field with buddypress, it does not render the html tags either, but regularly formatted links are clickable. If I create the field with s2member, the links aren’t clickable. In fact, I will set up another field with BP, so you can see the difference….

I need to set up the custom fields with s2member, because I need different member levels to have access to different fields.

Thanks again..

*** Okay, I created 2 bio fields… one with s2m and one with buddybress. You can see them both here, with the same text:

http://free-zilla.com/members/steve/profile/

Thank you for your reply, but that not not address my question. I am talking about these:

You know what? Forget about the html in the form field, can you at least tell me how to get the link in the login widget (that points to the logged in users profile)? I do not understand why this is so difficult a question to get answered. It is the simplest of things.

I was VERY thorough, and very precise on exactly what I need here.

Guys please? For 3 days I have been trying to get this figured out. I can go no further without this, and I am losing money by the hour.

Really simple. How do I add a “View Your Profile” link to the pro widget (like you did)
How do I allow members to use HTML tags to make tier profiles nicer? (like you did)

I am not asking for anything new. Just give me the code please. Or refund me.

Second issue…

You see the link you have in your sidebar widget that says “My public Profile”? How do I do that?

I have been searching everywhere, swearing at Google, pounding on my keyboard, etc. for two days now, just to try to get this plugin to do the most basic things.

I appreciate that there is a lot of functionality to this plugin, and a lot of people have a lot of complex needs, but can we try to focus on some of the more basic aspects – like making the membership plugin more desirable for the members that join through it? I am trying to give my members a high quality experience. A nice profile page, where they can showcase their talents, the availability to navigate through their member dashboard in a way that males sense, etc…

I have not had time to even do anything about how the site will function because I have spent the last 2 days, solid, trying to get through the most basic of things.

How do I allow my members to be able to use html on their profile fields? How do I add a “View Profile” link to my login widget? Is is possible to have a “member profile” that looks halfway decent?

Please do not direct me to the codex. i do not even know what it means, or how to use it.

Thanks.