[LaunchFocus]

Issue came up after a user joined with with a space in his username. His profile leads to 404 when you click on his username. I researched and saw special characters and spaces aren’t allowed? Why is this and is there a simple fix rather than having to validate our code?

[joop.stringer]

Same here, saw a thread from 7 years ago … but not fixed.
Is there a workaround ? Fix ? Plugin to handle this ?

[joop.stringer]

Here’s the old thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/usernames-with-spaces-do-not-work/

[phatmass]

I have been searching for a solution to the username with spaces 404 error and can’t find one. I just imported over 4000 users from my old Invision forum into bbPress and about half of them have spaces in their names and get the 404 error on their profiles.

Is it really a 7 year old problem that hasn’t been fixed yet!?!?

[joop.stringer]

@phatmass, I also imported about 1000 users, most of them with spaces …

There seems to be a workaround … my profile name is joop.stringer
If you click on my profile link it shows joopstringer (without the dot)
So most probably bbPress changes the profilename to be without dots/spaces/diacritics …

bbPress guys, can you please give us a clue on what to do ?

[joop.stringer]

After a bit of digging around on the forum … bbPress seems to be in trouble when your permalinks (in WP) are set to “TopicName” and your usernames contains spaces. If you change the permalinks (in WP) to “default” there’s no problem.
Check out this post as well: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-user-profiles/#post-154972

So I wonder where the actual problem is … WP or bbPress