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I have a custom field in the profile that is a multi-line text area. The backend turns some of the text into searchable links which doesn’t make sense for the detailed description field.

Is there a way, in the code for me to fetch the field values without Buddypress adding the searchable links? So I can then print it to screen using echo? I also have a second field that I want to trim to 1,000 characters that this would be useful for.

I tried using the Custom Profile Filter plug-in, but it removes the HTML formatting that users put in such as (paragraph separation, bolding, italics, links) which I would like to keep for this field.