#1966 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Custom urls to Profile
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| Milestone: | 1.2 | Priority: | major |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Members | Keywords: | |
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Description
Don't know if there's already a ticket on this but it would be really nice if you could get a custom/user-friendly url to your profile. I've seen this implemented on several huge communities including Facebook.
1: Say my default profile url is "http://domain.com/members/ezcali/"
2: Then somewhere inside Profile I can check to see if "http://domain.com/ezcali" is available as my custom profile url. If it's available I can register that url and its mine. If not I can try and register for a different url.
Technically I can then access my profile from 2 different url's. The original and the custom url. It's important that the custom url is being setup as a 301 redirect to the original url to avoid duplicate content issues with google ect.
This will work if your site is a social network, like Facebook, but if you're using BuddyPress to add social networking features to a website which is not a dedicated social network, this would not be wanted. Closing this as it's something that ought to be done in a plugin.