By Andy on Sunday, 19 January 2014
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Can you help me understand some variation I'm seeing in the profile URL of my users. I've cleared EasySocial cache and re-indexed the search in case that made a difference.

Some of my users have a profile ID which is just their name (lower case and wacky characters stripped out) - whereas others have that too but it also starts with their UserID.

So Jackie Jones might be jackie-jones but then I see Matthew Smith is 54-matthew-smith. What causes the difference?!

I'm trying to build something that'll link to user profile URLs and so I want to understand why there's a difference - I could work with either - just need some consistency!

I also realise that the URL works all the time if you just use the User ID alone.... but if possible I'd like to stick with the ones EasySocial builds that include the person's name too.
Hello Andy,

When you have not set the permalink, EasySocial would fall back to the username / real name depending on your configuration. The problem with using such text as alias in the URLs causes issue because whenever there is a character of @,-,_,'," they get converted to "-" automatically. This becomes a problem because there is no way to revert it back to the original alias. Hence, ID is necessary
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