Hello.
How to change user’s permalinks (profile page urls), from nicename to ID’s:
mysite.com/forums/user/Mike-jovanr

to

mysite.com/forums/user/99

???

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

It’s do-able undoubtably, but not sure how much code you’d need to change.

Why are you wishing to do this?

[@tazogamer Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

I WANT IT.
HOW TO DO THAT?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

you don’t actually need to change the permalinks eg is Kazza were user 15

http://www.mysite.com/forums/users/15/edit/

works just as well as

http://www.mysite.com/fourms/users/kazza/edit

so you’d need to change how the profile page is called so that it displays the no. in the url.

Given that profile is called from

any topic or reply display (click the avatar or author name)
several widgets (click the avatar or author name)
possibly other areas

you’d need to re-code these areas.

the function bbp_reply_author_link is used for topic and reply display, not sure if widgets use that as well.

[@tazogamer Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Robin W! Thanks so much! Your answers led me to the solution:
in functions.php , i have added(with add_filter) a modified “bbp_get_user_profile_url” function,which generates profile urls (original is in bbpress\includes\users\template.php):

here is my code:

remove_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'bbp_get_user_profile_url');
add_filter('bbp_get_user_profile_url','my_replaced' , 10 ,4);	
function my_replaced ($url, $user_id, $user_nicename = '' ){
	global $wp_rewrite;
	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {return false;}
	$early_profile_url = apply_filters( 'bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url', (int) $user_id );
	if ( is_string( $early_profile_url ) ) {   return $early_profile_url; }
	if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) { 	// if pretty permalinks
		$url = $wp_rewrite->root . bbp_get_user_slug() . '/%' . bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() . '%';
		if ( empty( $user_nicename ) ) { $user_nicename = bbp_get_user_nicename( $user_id );}

		$url = str_replace( '%' . bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() . '%', $user_id, $url );
		$url = home_url( user_trailingslashit( $url ) );

	} 
	else { 	// Unpretty permalinks
		$url = add_query_arg( array( bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() => $user_id ), home_url( '/' ) );
	}
	//return apply_filters( 'Replaced_bbp_get_user_profile_url', $url, $user_id, $user_nicename );
	return $url;
}	

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Hey great, glad you’re fixed !

[@ikhaismail Participant 6 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @tazogamer. I tried your code to change user’s permalinks from nicename to ID’s. Yeah, the permalinks is changed, but the page its redirect is not found. Do you have any idea about this?

[@itbuero Participant 5 years, 8 months ago]

I have the same issue. Can somewone please support me? Need to change the url from

http://www.mysite.com/fourms/users/john

to

http://www.mysite.com/users/john

thousand thanks!

Peter

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 8 months ago]

@itbuero

dashboard>settings>forums>forum root slug and change ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug’ to untick this