# Adding Clickable User Fields / Field Types?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887 "2017-01-17T09:34:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887/1 "2017-01-17T09:34:58Z")
Hi,
I just wondered if anyone else had either done this, or may know how it could be achieved?
We would like to be able to add a clickable field to the user profile but at present the only options are really for text, and even if a URL is entered it isn’t rendered as a hyperlink, thus, you can’t click it.
I’m not sure if the profile functionality can be enhanced through the use of a plugin or whether this is something that could perhaps be added to the main code base?
A topic is running on what we are hoping to achieve [here](https://community.gamedev.tv/t/our-games-added-to-our-profile/2009/15).
In an ideal scenario I suppose there would be a _URL Field_ field type available in the drop down menu, which, at the very least would just turn the provided text into a hyperlink. The icing covered, cherry on the top, version of this sticky bun feature would be to perhaps allow both text and a url to be entered so that it could be more _readable_ on the profile page, thus;
[My Readable Link](https://community.gamedev.tv/t/our-games-added-to-our-profile/2009/15)
instead of
[Our games added to our profile - #15 by ben - Ask - GameDev.tv](https://community.gamedev.tv/t/our-games-added-to-our-profile/2009/15)
for example..
Any thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887/2 "2017-01-17T11:29:36Z")
> [@(Retired) Use an ID in a custom user field to link to a user's external profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-custom-user-field-to-external-website/41218):
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> Let’s say you want to add a link of User’s main profile page on Discourse user profile page and user card, clicking on that link will take user to main (external) website. The link of main website user profile page will be like: http://myawesomewebsite.com/user/USER\_PROFILE\_ID Let’s get started! Create a custom user field Let’s create a user field with name User Profile. Make sure “Show on public profile?” option is enabled. The above field will store external user profile IDs. A…
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887/3 "2017-01-17T13:13:16Z")
Thanks for this, I will pass the info on, as unfortunately I’m not in a position to play with it myself - but appreciate the link and will have a good read through 🙂
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-clickable-user-fields-field-types/55887/6 "2022-07-25T16:44:30Z")