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I have a Gravity Form user registration that collects user profile fields that are displayed in the user’s BuddyPress profile. I also have a Gravity Form user submission form where a user submits information and a new custom post type post is created using merge tags. I need for some of the post author’s profile data to be attached to the post. I think I can do this using merge tags of the user’s meta data but when I look at where the user’s profile information from BuddyPress is stored, it is in the “_bp_xprofile_data” table, not the usermeta table, so it doesn’t appear in the list of available merge tags. Is there a BuddyPress function to call the user’s profile data directly from the source table and place it into the custom post type?