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Hello,

I’m interested in preventing users from entering more than some set character limit (say, 300 characters) in one or all of the custom profile fields I’ve set up. I’ve seen a few threads here and on StackExchange saying one needs to either use HTML or Javascript, but I haven’t been able to figure out exactly where (specific Buddypress files and line numbers) to make these changes. I’d prefer to limit characters on the user input side of things, not just let them enter as much as they want but limit how much I display.

Would some kind soul walk me through how I might do this, assuming out-of-the-box latest versions of WP and BP? I’m thinking I need to make changes somewhere inside buddypress/bp-xprofile, but haven’t been able to get anything to work… e.g.
– this StackExchange thread (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/36159/how-to-limit-character-length-in-buddypress-function-output) doesn’t tell me exactly which files/lines to alter, so I haven’t been able to get its solution to work
– haven’t been able to figure out this Javascript solution (linked in another thread on this forum)–where to place the function and textarea code, and do I replace existing code?

Pertinent specifics:
Wordpress 3.4.2, running locally via MAMP
Buddypress 1.6.1 (latest stable release) installed
Using the standard BuddyPress Default theme

Thank you for your help!