[Steven Zahm]

@ Janet

The only way to make the bio a required field is to make a small edit to the connections_form.php file.

Search for this line:

$out .= '<textarea rows="20" cols="40" name="bio" id="cn-form-bio"></textarea>';

Change it to this:

$out .= '<textarea class="required" rows="20" cols="40" name="bio" id="cn-form-bio"></textarea>';

You will than have to disable the rich text editor by setting the rte shortcode option to FALSE; like so:
[connections_form rte=FALSE]

That’s the easiest. If you really want the rich text editor; the change is not harder but does appear like it is because of where the change has to be made. Here’s how:

Search for this block of code:

wp_editor(	$entry->getBio(),
	'cn-form-bio',
	array
	(
		'media_buttons' => FALSE,
		'wpautop' => TRUE,
		'textarea_name' => 'bio',
		'tinymce' =>	array
						(
							'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold, italic, underline, |, bullist, numlist, |, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, |, link, unlink, |, pastetext, pasteword, removeformat, |, undo, redo',
							'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '',
							'inline_styles' => TRUE,
							'relative_urls' => FALSE,
							'remove_linebreaks' => FALSE,
							'plugins' => 'inlinepopups,spellchecker,tabfocus,paste'
						),
		'quicktags' =>	array
						(
							'buttons' => 'strong,em,ul,ol,li,close',
						)
	)
);

And change it to this:

wp_editor(	$entry->getBio(),
	'cn-form-bio',
	array
	(
		'media_buttons' => FALSE,
		'wpautop' => TRUE,
		'textarea_name' => 'bio',
		'editor_class' => 'required',
		'tinymce' =>	array
						(
							'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold, italic, underline, |, bullist, numlist, |, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, |, link, unlink, |, pastetext, pasteword, removeformat, |, undo, redo',
							'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '',
							'inline_styles' => TRUE,
							'relative_urls' => FALSE,
							'remove_linebreaks' => FALSE,
							'plugins' => 'inlinepopups,spellchecker,tabfocus,paste'
						),
		'quicktags' =>	array
						(
							'buttons' => 'strong,em,ul,ol,li,close',
						)
	)
);

That should do it. I hope that helps!