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Change username to description


  • autox420
    Participant

    @autox420

    Well link to a user is: .com/wordpress/members/username/
    I want it like this: .com/wordpress/members/description/

    Basiclly instead of buddypress apply profile link @ username.
    It applies profile link @ description.

    Simply sed my username in buddypress should be my description.

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  • Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    You’ll want to sanitise your descriptions before using them in the URL. sanitize_title_with_dashes() will be helpful. You’ll also need to make sure they’re unique (user’s can’t have the same URL).

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_title_with_dashes


    autox420
    Participant

    @autox420

    Yes they are unique for every user.

    Dont need for sanitise cause no spaces are allowed in description.

    More help what exactly do i do to make this into reality?

    And yeah if its possible just the link is the description my username will still be the same if possible.


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    In WordPress there’s user_login, user_nicename and display_name.

    In general, display_name is used on the front end to display the user’s name. This might be the same as user_login but more often it’s the user’s first name and last name.

    user_login is the string used to authenticate the user when logging in. user_nicename is usually the same as user_login but it is a sanitised version used in URLs so it may be different if user_login contains special characters.

    Using your description field in place of user_nicename should be possible but it’s likely you’ll need to use custom code. I’m not aware of a plugin that will get this done for you.

    Hope this helps.

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