WordPress blog question

wordpress support not working so am asking here

[phparion]

Hi

I tried to post many times my question in wordpress.org support forum but my threads are not shown in the forum so finally i decided to ask it here if anyone of you have worked with wordpress.org blog application.

I have installed it on my website and now it is opened for the users to register their IDs and make their blogs.

I was searching to get the Personal URL of each user that a user can give to people or can show on his site and when clicked will bring the visitor to the blog on my and will either show the profile of this user or his blog posts e.g

www.mydomain.com/wordpressblog/showuser.php?userid=10

I tried to sign up as a normal user on the blog but stil am not able to find this URL ..

is it possible on wordpress blog to have this kinda personal profile URLs? if yes, then where can I get it?

thanks

[sodani]

Not really sure. However, in my experience, wordpress is good for a single publisher, but if you want to allow other people to publish, it might be better to use community software like drupal.

[phparion]

there is a wordpress plugin for this and i will start customizing wordpress for my site in next two days and then i will do it and will post here in the forum so if anyone else is looking for this would be able to use my post...

[phparion]

ok am back with the solution,

every author has unique 'user_id' in wordpress users table and you can use that id to point to author's profile e.g

www.yourdomain.com/wordpressdirectory/index.php?author=(user_id)

this will display the posts of the users with heading "Author Archive" if user has not posted any article yet then it will display error 'Not Found'

I wrote custom code to make it more elegant by introducing primary key of my members table into wp users table and then creating URLs like

www.mydomain.com/blog/index.php?username

I hope it will help someone , someday :)