I was able to do this by editing the user-profile.php page (line 21) – the issue is that every time there is a BBPress update it will overwrite my change –

Is there a way to adjust it so instead of the description it will show the user email address without me editing the plugin each time?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 1 month ago]

you are correctly editing the template, but it needs to be placed in your child-theme

so

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-profile.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-profile.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original