@katemgilbert
Is there a reason why you need to change the URL profile member’s link? There is no advantage what you really want.
@mikey3D – the site is for a workplace, and they want their business cards to read “site.com/realname”, where realname = username. The advantage is totally cosmetic, but desired nonetheless.
@djpaul – I know it ought to work, that’s what’s so frustrating. Do you think it’s a cache issue, and if I just wait a bit after applying the change they’ll catch up? I saw some other threads that say this fix doesn’t work in WP 3.1+, but other threads that say it does work in all versions, so I’m stumped.
Thanks!
I can’t see how it could be a caching issue. Are you on multisite or regular WordPress, and do you mind sharing what’s in your .htaccess file?
Have to admit I can’t get it to work on 1.2.8 / 3.1
I knew why you would do it but how will you eliminate duplicate content between members and unique items in the search engines? Use robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /members/
EDIT: @gregfielding has similar problem “Help with redirect for root profile change” that I didn’t tell him.
@djpaul – here’s the .htaccess. 2 users needed their real URLs right away, so we have 301 redirects for them until this fix is solved. Could that be the issue?
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
redirect 301 /a/kc /members/username1/
redirect 301 /a/liam /members/username2/
redirect 301 /kc /members/username1/
redirect 301 /liam /members/username2
Why not just use @realname on their business cards instead of site.com/realname?
@katemgilbert
It’s not that the profiles are broken, but that the activity and @mention permalinks for prior events aren’t updated. New activity will have the correct, new link, while prior activity links will be broken.
I’ll let you know if I have any more luck with this!
