[Tom Davis]

Is there a way to display the field in the WP profile titled “Biographical Info” (I think it is named “description” internally)  in the BuddPress profile page that other members see?

I am trying to achieve a page that gives Name, Biographical Info, then all the extended profile fields.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Tom – Under Users on your dashboard you can go to “Profile Fields” and add a new field called Biographical Info.  You can make it a “multi-line text area” and decide if you want it to be optional or required.

To display the bio info from the WP profile, I think you may need to do a little coding – this link may help: https://paulund.co.uk/how-to-display-author-bio-with-wordpress

get_the_author_meta('description');

[Tom Davis]

Hi Scott,

While this did not get me all the way there, it did open a new avenue that lead me to the solution.

In the members/member-header.php file of the theme (child theme of course) I added:

<p><?php the_author_meta(‘description’,bp_displayed_user_id()); ?></p>

just after the beginning of the “item-meta” div.

This was exactly what I needed.

Thanks for chiming in!

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