Tom also provided the follwing, which worked for me after I couldn’t get any of the above to work.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/are-usernames-with-spaces-sensible
Oh you top man Tom! Yep, worked first time, perfect.
Over on the other forum at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-keep-just-display-name-which-links-to-profile-in-posts#post-58301
they tried this, which didn’t quite work;
<a href="http://www.example.com/forum/profile/<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>">
<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>
</a>
I’ll mark this thread as resolved then, and put a link to here on there. Nice one, thanks.
James
Ah, I’ll change that back to 10 then. 
Thanks, Tom. Just having a read of the codex now.
Cheers,
James
That’s great! That’s brilliant Tom, thanks very much. I was obviously missing a few commands there!
Thanks both of you, you just made a lot of integral practitioners very happy with their new found ability to register what they’re doing with their practice for mind, body, spirit and shadow on their new forum. Here’s the handiwork in action: http://wholelifewholeworld.com/forums/profile/james-blacker
Presumably if I changed (or removed) the spelling of the codes in the names (not that I will), it would break and any info people had put in previously would be lost.
And I’ve increased the number parameter at the end of your add_action(‘extra_profile_info’, ‘add_descriptions’,15); – even I could work out that was important.
Tom, if you’re on a roll, do you have an insight for the one I posted on why linking poster names to their Profile doesn’t support usernames with spaces? Presumably you’ve linked Posts to people’s Profiles on your forum having done the extra work to modify your own profile pages?: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/are-usernames-with-spaces-sensible
Thanks again, both, greatly appreciated.
Cheers, James.
PS. Paul, no relation to my colleague, Gary Hawke, presumably? http://integral-uk-symposium.wholelifewholeworld.com/meet-the-people/gary-hawke/
Thanks, Paul,
That corrected it to the point that it was happy with it and allowed it to activate.
Unfortunately, the impact of the thing was that other than the passwords the fields and their content disappared from the Profile and Edit Profile pages, so there’s obviously a bit more to ardentfrost’s approach other than this so far (as I’m sure you corrected the code right), if you or anyone else know what it needs? It seemed to be an officially approved approach to doing the thing on that other forum page.
So I’ve de-activated it for now, and fortunately the fields and their content were still there and returned.
Thanks again, Paul.
James
