WPF 1.7.4 -> 2.4.13 upgrade has signatures stripped br tags of making them appear only on a single line - Bug Reports - wpForo 2.0

RE: WPF 1.7.4 -> 2.4.13 upgrade has signatures stripped br tags of making them appear only on a single line

nando4 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:09:58 +0000

Only issue was finding that spaces and
html tags were being stripped in signatures, which commenting out the following line fixed:

functions.php

function wpforo_text( $text, $length = 0, $echo = true, $strip_tags = true, $strip_urls = true, 
...
    // nando4>> comment out following line to allow for spaces and 
 entered into signature editor to show in post signature area
    // $text = trim( str_replace( "\xc2\xa0", ' ', (string) $text ) );
...
}

RE: WPF 1.7.4 -> 2.4.13 upgrade has signatures stripped br tags of making them appear only on a single line

nando4 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:48:43 +0000

My bad, a customization was causing this. Pls close/delete the bug.

RE: WPF 1.7.4 -> 2.4.13 upgrade has signatures stripped br tags of making them appear only on a single line

Sofy — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:17:21 +0000

Dear @nando4,

We’ve already discussed this question in the following support topic:
https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/how-to-add-empty-line-in-signature-of-latest-wpforo/

Please review it once more. If you’re still experiencing any issues, kindly record a video so we can better understand the problem.

WPF 1.7.4 -> 2.4.13 upgrade has signatures stripped br tags of making them appear only on a single line

nando4 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:53:50 +0000

Did some testing finding WPF 1.7.4 user signatures with br html tags that under WPF 1.7.4 make them appear on separate lines would appear on WPF 2.4.13 on a consecutive line, even though they appear correctly in the wpforo_profiles db table.

ie:

WPF 1.7.4 signature

line1
line2
line3

WPF 2.4.13 signature

line1 line2 line3

When you have 1000s of users, this change in appearance completely mucks up my forum post views. I wasn't able to locate the code responsible for this during a limited testing time window, so aborted the WPF 2.4.13 upgrade due to it being a deal-breaker.

May I please request some way of signatures maintaining br html tags so appear like they do in WPF 1.7.4 in the upcoming WPF 3 release?

Thank you