I have an issue with emoticons not displaying correctly on the buddypress extended profiles after upgrading to 1.6.1 from buddypress 1.5.7

The emoticons work fine in blog post comments it’s only on the extended profiles that is isn’t displaying correctly.

I have disabled all plugins and also tried changing themes.. the problem is still there so I think this could be a bug.

[@creamundo Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

have the same problem!!!!!! help!!!!

[@robert-tramontano Participant 13 years, 1 month ago]

I have been waiting over a month on this as well as my other post.. I am using wordpress 1.6.1, I was fine with version 1.5.7.. I checked all plugins and it is not my theme.. it has to be a buddypress issue. When using the extended profile with emoticons on not only do emoticon’s like this don’t work but other extended profile fields turn regular text into HTML links for no apparent reason at all.. this is very frustrating as I am about to launch a website and can not have this happening.. someone please help..

[@frettsy Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
remove_filter('bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'convert_smilies', 2);
add_filter('bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'convert_smilies', 99);