user URL doesn't work

  • Resolved marioluigi

    (@marioluigi)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Excellent plugin. I just ran into 2 issues:

    1. When I check ‘User Profile URL,’ it does nothing to the URL. I’m logged in as the admin and I submit a post. It automatically posts to uncategorized, but uses the title of the post as the URL…so it’s like:

    example.com/uncategorized/post-title

    I’m assuming the option is supposed to change it to:

    example.com/uncategorized/admin/post-title

    …yet it does nothing. Is there some other option that it’s conflicting with?

    I’m using ultimate member if that matters.

    2. What does the author dropdown box do? I want registered users to be able to post under their own username after registering.

    Which option should I choose for this dropdown so that their own username is posted instead?

    Thanks.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Glad to help:

    1) The User URL setting hides the URL field in the source code of the form, and populates it with the value of the logged-in users User Profile “Website”. Then when the form is submitted, the user_submit_url Custom Field contains that value, which can be used as needed in the theme template or wherever.

    2) That “Assigned Author” setting specifies the author that should be assigned to the submitted post. Or if the user will be logged in when submitting, you can enable the “Registered Username” setting to use their username as the post author.

    Thread Starter marioluigi

    (@marioluigi)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks much for the speedy reply!

    1. I’m not sure if I follow (sorry, my coding skills are limited). So what you’re saying is that the User URL will basically take the user’s website URL and store it as a value for use elsewhere? How do I use it dynamically in the post’s URL so it contains their dynamic URL?

    2. This one I get. Thanks much.

    Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    1) Yeah it is a bit complicated what’s actually happening “under the hood”. I guess as far as you need be concerned, that particular setting means that logged-in users will not have to enter their URL, because it will be submitted automatically based on their User Profile.

    “How do I use it dynamically in the post’s URL so it contains their dynamic URL?”

    Basically this is not a feature of the plugin, but could be custom-coded by a developer, using the value of the submitted URL custom field.

    2) My pleasure.

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