Setting contact url overrides contact email?

[downey (Michael Downey)]

Continuing the discussion from Disable email or provide Contact URL on About page:

@codinghorror

Good news @arlair ! There is now an option to use a contact URL here instead of the email, just enter it in your site settings. Thanks to @techapj for getting that in with some other About page improvements.

Is contact url meant to override contact email on the /about page? The help text in site settings suggests that both would be displayed.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Yes it is meant to override that. Since some people were unhappy that email was shown there, this is an alternative.

Can be legit if you have a “contact web page” as well.

[downey (Michael Downey)]

OK. Any thoughts about rendering both if both fields are filled?

(In our case we have both email address and web front ends to our helpdesk tools.)