I have the same question:
is it possoble after login to redirect to the persons personal page (referred to with his username, e.g. Walter) with
http://www.mydomainname.com/%username% ?
Sorry to hijack this thread but I think my problem relates.
I’m using the Sidebar login Widget in Buddypress, I would like to redirect the Dashboard and Profile links to “members/USERNAME/” and “members/username/profile/” So I need to change
Links (Text | HREF | Capability):
Dashboard | %admin_url%
Profile | %admin_url%/profile.php
Logout | %logout_url%
I don’t know what these Buddypress %username% functions are called. Any ideas?
@jgclifton and WouterSe, in the “Login Redirect Url”, simply add this:
http://{YourWebsiteHere}/wp-admin/profile.php
Due to the nature of sessions, they will automatically redirect to their profile page when logged in.
@mgkoller, I don’t use buddypress atm, but if I’ll take a look at it when I have the change.
hi @mgkoller,
I had it on my site, but I have BB Press deleted.
I had exactly the same:
members/%username%/
or vice versa, I do not remember:
%username%members/
Cheers
(I hope I got it right out of you, my English is not so good.)
In regards to the original question, not the BB-related issue, I think I use the solution you’re after. I wanted to be able to redirect to a page based on the user’s login name, not the displayed username.
I had to edit the plugin, though.
Edit the file sidebar-login/includes/class-sidebar-login-widget.php.
You need to change the first part of the replace_tags() function:
public function replace_tags( $text ) {
if ( $this->user ) {
$text = str_replace(
array( '%username%', '%userid%', '%userlogin%' ),
array( ucwords( $this->user->display_name ), $this->user->ID, $this->user->user_login ),
$text
);
}
And then use the %userlogin% tag in your widget.
Hope this helps someone!
The problem is, since I updated, the URL does not resolve correctly for usernames that contain a space. It used to insert the dash needed, but not since I updated! How do I fix this? Is there a tag to use now other than %username% in URLs?
The problem is, that the plugin vendor uses
array( ucwords( $this->user->display_name ), $this->user->ID ),
in line 105 in class-sidebar-login-widget.php
It works when you replace it with
array( ucwords( $this->user->user_login ), $this->user->ID ),
It’s a hack. But the only solution i found so far. Maybe the programmer could provide a new version to fix this.
