@djpaul I’ve been digging into this and found the filter that’s overriding the ability to expand the permitted tags in xprofile textareas. It’s on line 19 in bp-xprofile-filters.php and adds wp_filter_kses to bp_get_the_profile_field_edit_value.
I can fix this for my own purposes with a remove_filter call but this does look like a bug. Using wp_filter_kses instead of xprofile_filter_kses defeats the expansion of the tag set. The fact that this is invoked in a ‘get’ is also odd.
What’s the best way for me to submit a bug report on this?
