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Social link inputs should be full urls in edit profile
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Nate
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Apr 10, 2017 - 12:41 am
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I don't have access to the other forums so I'll post this here. A lot of my members don't understand to put just the name of their social media in the profile, they always put the full url because this is how majority of sites do it. So when you click on their social media buttons it's https://facebook.com/https://f...../theirname etc

Are you guys ever going to change this or make the notice more visible? Currently you have a little text at the top that's not really noticeable. I'd suggest if you can't change it to input the full url, add placeholders to the input boxes that say Insert Your Account Name Only or something like that.

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Mr Papa
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Apr 10, 2017 - 1:22 am
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so we have been at this for over 10 years now and it really hasnt been an issue for users...  actually, in the very beginning, we did require the full url, but most users didnt know what that was - they only knew what their user or account name was...  not the first time we have been in a catch 22... 😉

that said, we can certainly take a look at clarifying it, though the current text says:

On this panel, you may edit your Online Identities. Please enter only account names and not a URL

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so not really sure that your description is particularly better...  but hey, we love our api and it does provide you with a way to customize that text to your content...  simply use our filter 'sph_profile_identities_header' and you can put out whatever you like... so for example:

add_filter('sph_profile_identities_header', 'my_identity_header');
function my_identity_header($out) {
    $out = 'put your text here';
    return $out;
}

as always, we appreciate the feedback...

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Nate
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Apr 10, 2017 - 6:56 pm
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Sounds good, thanks for the function Mr Papa 🙂

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Mr Papa
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Apr 10, 2017 - 9:10 pm
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glad to help...

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