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Hi,
I am trying to set up the profile URLs to not contain the users WP Login. For example username: j25smith makes a profile link of domain.com/forum/profile/j25smith. I would like to use firstname-lastname or display name or even the user's ID # is fine. Anything but the user name for security purposes.
I am using Display Profile Mode > Forum Profile Page (don't want to use pop-ups). I see there is a box for Query String Variable Name: but I am unsure what I would put in there to fix this problem.
In addition, when you mouse over their Avatar you see the username popup as well, I need to hide this as well or just have it display the word Profile. I know when you use Display Profile Mode > Popup Window it says Profile on avatar mouse over, but not when it goes to their profile page.
Can you please advise on how I can change this?
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for security?? obfuscation is not security...
but, afraid there is no way to change it to be other than the login name... short of some serious hacking of the code...
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for security?? obfuscation is not security...
but, afraid there is no way to change it to be other than the login name... short of some serious hacking of the code...
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Yes security. The username in the profile url displays the username publicly, which is half the combination to log-in. And certainly not something my members would want to display.
For example, you can change your user_nicename in the DB to change your author link so you're not leaking your username in your author url.
Is there a way to change it to display their user ID # instead of the WP login? Something like...
$data = get_userdata( $userid );
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obfuscation, not security, but whatever... just as possible to go after db with id, display name or login name...
to change to something besides the login name, you would have to modify the core code... this would include changing the rewrite rules, the query var processing and then the profile processing... if you want to try, we can try to help as you go through it...
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