Improvements to URLs in custom user fields when they link to the forum domain

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

We now have a howto for this:

Link custom user field to external website

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. [image] Make sure “Show on public profile?” option is enabled. The above field will store external user profile IDs. A…