As wordpress strips the break and text tags I’m looking for a solution to add line breaks to my bbp_user_decription div.
Here is what did not work:
1.) What I find everywhere is some sort of this added to functions.php:

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

This does not work, also looking at wordpress’ recent incl/registration.php just saying this file is deprecated makes me think that this code should not get to work at all.

2.) Alternatively I looked through my themes’files and used

<?php echo nl2br(get_the_author_meta( 'user_description' )); ?>
in content.php. Or <?php echo nl2br(get_the_author_meta( 'description' )); ?> in my author.php

3.) Tried 1) and 2) with bbp_ at the beginning of each decription’s part.

Nothing worked, break-or p-tags are just ignored.
Also, is there a secure way to add break-tags only?
Thanks for any help!

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 4 months ago]

This one is tough but it has to do with using <?php wpautop() ?>. Also know that the user description field is just a field inherited from the WordPress default profile fields.

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

[@boborg Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

Also looking for a solution to this. Anybody got an idea?