Search here to remove links in profile fields. It’s a BuddyPress feature for searching users who are similar
@modernlooper — I just searched this support forum for “remove links in profile fields” and got very strange and non-related results. So I still don’t know how to fix the glitch.
It’s not a glitch it’s a feature.
add (to a plugin, to your theme’s functions.php file, or to your bp-custom.php file)
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 2 );
Oh, ok @modemlooper. I thought it was a glitch because there is no pattern to what or why it selects certain text. On the surface it just seems totally random. I’ll give your remove_filter() a try.
Ok I tried it @modemlooper. The certain random text is still hyperlinked.
I might have written the filter wrong. google around its been discussed heavily on this forum
Throw this in your bp-custom.php file to fix the glitch:
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9 );
No idea who thought it was a good idea to automatically apply hyperlinks to all profile field content, or why. To make it worse, the priority number was changed in a recent release of BuddyPress, which is why the fix from @modemlooper no longer worked.
http://cl.ly/3f0o3y3z153J3a3r3L3h
I added this
<?php
// hacks and mods will go here
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9 );
?>
did not work in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php
Got it to work withe
function remove_xprofile_links() {
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9, 2 );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘remove_xprofile_links’ );
added it to my bp-custom.php file.
Thanks guys.
I turned it off using the remover_filter(). Much better now 
