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OK, I figured this out, I had to change the URL buddypress profile field to a text field instead of a URL field. It would be ideal to keep it a URL field but it works this way. Anyone know how I would keep it a URL field but fetch plain text for the URL.

Just tried a html only ad and it also just displays the text code of the ad.

Any other suggestions? Right now the script actually shows up as text on the blog post with script tags and all that were pulled from the profile field.

wp_trim_words() can do that. See this article

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

🙂

Hi Piotr,

If your trying to put your Facebook link on the About Me section, you can use this code:

<a href="facebook.com/john-wick">John Wick</a>

The above code will display just like this John Wick

Just change the url and the name that you want to display.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Thanks again Henry, tried what you said like this but couldn’t get it to work.
<script><?php echo xprofile_get_field_data('AD', get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ); ?></script>

Do I need to take out the script tags from the profile field. However I notice there are two sets of them. The code on the buddypress profile field form looks like…[Read more]

wp_add_inline_style() is likely used to add the inline styling. Try searching for instances of that in Twenty Fifteen.

Ref https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_add_inline_style

What is the script language? If JavaScript then you will need to surround it with <script> tags.