Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt Monday at 02:04 PM
RoleplayUK Posted July 24, 2020 Posted July 24, 2020 Good Evening. I am starting a new project where my new site will be centred around people creating and customising there profiles. I have the perfect domain for this but this will only work perfectly if i can have domain.com/username My attempts have resulted in failure so far with putting domain.com/{?} for domain.com/index.php?/app=core&module=members&controller=profile The error this gives is: The Friendly URL must be unique, the value entered will conflict with other Friendly URLs and support have pointed me to this forum to seek help. Has anyone done this with invision ? I have managed it with buddypress but well.... its not as good!
RoleplayUK Posted July 25, 2020 Author Posted July 25, 2020 Anyone able to do this ? Willing to test and even pay for this, I am pretty sure it would be a popular plugin also.
Adriano Faria Posted July 25, 2020 Posted July 25, 2020 I don’t think you will be able to do it. It requires the ID due to the way it was built. It’s not just a question of change the FURL; it also relies in the ID to the load the profile, etc. RoleplayUK and DawPi 2
RoleplayUK Posted July 25, 2020 Author Posted July 25, 2020 That's a massive shame as it is vital for this new project. I would of rather have used invision than its competitors 😞 Oh well! thanks for your answer
DawPi Posted July 25, 2020 Posted July 25, 2020 18 minutes ago, RoleplayUK said: as it is vital for this new project. For YOUR project. Not everyone. What's wrong with urls with ids?
RoleplayUK Posted July 25, 2020 Author Posted July 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, DawPi said: For YOUR project. Not everyone. What's wrong with urls with ids? Ok.. this new project that i am working on 🙄 Normally absolutely fine, however if you seen the domain you would understand, a huge part of the appeal will be having domain.com/username, this is going to be more of a profile site and customising your own profile than a forum.
WP V0RT3X Posted July 25, 2020 Posted July 25, 2020 4 hours ago, RoleplayUK said: That's a massive shame It's not a shame, it's standard. 4 hours ago, RoleplayUK said: than its competitors They do it that way too. XenForo works with IDs and even good old vBulletin did it all the time. 21 hours ago, RoleplayUK said: I have managed it with buddypress BuddyPress isn't a forum software, it's only a profile toy for WordPress DawPi 1
RoleplayUK Posted July 25, 2020 Author Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, V0RT3X666 said: It's not a shame, it's standard. They do it that way too. XenForo works with IDs and even good old vBulletin did it all the time. BuddyPress isn't a forum software, it's only a profile toy for WordPress @V0RT3X666 A lot of sites have domain.com/username ... Facebook, twitter, Instagram the list goes on, I would say that is industry standard. Phpfox is another example of community software that has /username If its not possible with IPS its not possible with IPS, I will need to rethink if to proceed with my project or look at other software which of course i do not want to do as i ve used IPS for many years on another successful project and think its far superior than its competitors. I would say its not possible seeing you guys are very experienced plugin developers here, dispite IPS support saying it is possible with some customisation and sending me to these forums. My idea however and the domain wont be anywhere near as good without /username so a rethink is due. Thank you everyone for your responses. Edited July 25, 2020 by RoleplayUK
Adriano Faria Posted July 25, 2020 Posted July 25, 2020 Just remembered this: I suggest you talk to the dev before purchase to see if it fits your needs. Michael.J 1
RoleplayUK Posted July 25, 2020 Author Posted July 25, 2020 @Adriano Faria Thanks for finding that, I will get in touch with him via devfuse
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