Hi @scoobydoobydoo wouaaaaaaaah,
the rock’n'roll answer of the day is NO ! I tested on my site and i can insert a youtube URI without problem. The field shows a well formed URI
If you use a custom theme test your config with bp-default and all plugins deactivated and begin to debug…
If you use bp-default, deactivate all plugins and begin to debug…
Thanks for your reply! I guess it’s yet *another* thing that’s not working using the non standard theme. I had thought as much, just wanted someone to confirm. Very frustrating 
fyi you should not be pasting embed code you should be pasting the youtube page url or shortlink for the video
Ben, do you mean I can’t embed the video on the page, and that I can only put a link to YouTube (and therefore send the visitor away from my site)?
no i’m saying if you put the link (as text not anchor tag) it will substitute the embed automatically it’s called an oEmbed more info here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
oh i figured she was just talking about as an update. That code you have there is pretty cool @modemlooper would that work with any oEmbed or just youtube? you know me and code but it looks like it would work with any oEmbed. Also is that something which would be placed inside bp-custom? BTW i like your site design.
Any oEmbed WordPress allows but you have to match up field name with code
ah gotcha so just put that into the bp-custom file then?
nice one thanks for that might have to add an embed field to see what folks do with that.
Thank you @modemlooper,
the code is ok, but it will work only on the first field group.
It would be better to have this “information” on a custom field group.
Not true, http://dev.taptappress.com/admin/profile/
I have it in a second group called my info.
You’re right @modemlooper !Sorry…
Though i tried several times before posting, but now it works. Huh ! 
updated my blog post to include other services besides youtube
I modified the function because $var strip the whole profile information.
Insert the $var in the if and it’s ok !<code>
if( strtolower( $field_name ) == ‘youtube’ ) {
$val = strip_tags( $val );
return wp_oembed_get( $val, array(‘width’=>400) );
return $val;</code>
