# Create a link that will bring a user to their own profile
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 7, 2016, 10:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614 "2016-01-07T22:07:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@stevenpslade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stevenpslade)
#### Post date: [1월 7, 2016, 10:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/1 "2016-01-07T22:07:57Z")
I would like to create a link that will tell members where to find their badges in their profile.
In this post I would like to direct members to their profile with a link.
For example: [https://meta.discourse.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/activity](https://meta.discourse.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/activity)
Is it possible to do this in a post using markdown? Or what needs to be done to accomplish this?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [1월 7, 2016, 10:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/2 "2016-01-07T22:13:33Z")
This exists [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/activity)
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### Author:  [@stevenpslade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stevenpslade)
#### Post date: [1월 7, 2016, 10:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/3 "2016-01-07T22:36:52Z")
Wowowow! Thank you. This is the greatest thing.
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### Author:  [@Shannon\_Rogers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shannon_Rogers)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 4:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/4 "2016-05-19T16:02:51Z")
Can this same solution be used to direct to a users post in a category. eg: I want to encourage my users to create a progress log. I have a Discourse category for these logs so I can link to the category, but I wonder if I could link to their log directly and if they don’t have one it would fall back to the category page. AKA: how else can the /my/ function be applied?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 6:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/5 "2016-05-19T18:53:25Z")
> [@Shannon\_Rogers](#):
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> Can this same solution be used to direct to a users post in a category
Like this ?
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/my/11080/12`
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/my11080/12](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my11080/12)
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### Author:  [@Shannon\_Rogers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shannon_Rogers)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 7:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/6 "2016-05-19T19:03:17Z")
Not sure what I’m seeing here. Mostly due to my unfamiliarity with the URL structure Discourse uses. I get the /t/ part and /my refers to the user but what does /11080/12 indicate?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 7:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/7 "2016-05-19T19:05:57Z")
> [@Shannon\_Rogers](#):
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> what does /11080/12 indicate?
Those are the topic\_id and post\_id
I guess I’m not understanding exactly what you’re asking?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 7:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/8 "2016-05-19T19:07:40Z")
> [@Shannon\_Rogers](#):
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> how else can the /my/ function be applied?
My is very restrictive and only applicable to certain pages, it can’t be used the way you are depicting. You’d have to write a plugin or something. It would be best to just send them to the category and they can find their existing log (if need be)
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### Author:  [@Shannon\_Rogers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shannon_Rogers)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2016, 7:14오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/9 "2016-05-19T19:14:47Z")
OK thanks and agreed, just sending to the category will work, I was just trying to be fancy. Thanks as well to @Mittineague for explaining the url structure. That will be useful info for the future.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [5월 20, 2016, 4:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/10 "2016-05-20T04:20:32Z")
The ‘my’ there could be replaced by anything, including a single dash - it’s taking the place of the topic slug, and the server will 302 you to the correct URL.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 20, 2016, 10:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/11 "2016-05-20T10:11:20Z")
> [@riking](#):
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> The ‘my’ there could be replaced by anything, including a single dash - it’s taking the place of the topic slug, and the server will 302 you to the correct URL.
And that is in reference to the one @mittineague created, not to be confused with the one that goes to their profile/preferences/bookmarks, etc.
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### Author:  [@mforbes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mforbes)
#### Post date: [2월 19, 2022, 7:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/12 "2022-02-19T19:51:43Z")
정확히 말하자면, 이 작업이 제대로 수행되려면 `u/username` (그리고 `u/` 포함)을 `my`로 대체하세요.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [6월 8, 2024, 12:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-a-link-that-will-bring-a-user-to-their-own-profile/37614/13 "2024-06-08T12:36:46Z")
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