Enable html support for user description in profile header

Hi @newance ,

Have you tried adding target=”_blank” attribute to your html link? Add this will open the link in new tab.

Thank you.

I enabled the html link from the settings at backend so it’s just a tick in the box. I’m not a dev and apologize I don’t know code. But if you can advise how to add target=”_blank” attribute to my html link, and if that instructions are easy to follow by a non-techie, I’ll be more than happy to follow. I have added codes to my child theme functions.php many times so that i can manage.

I’m not sure if this case is considered “Resolved” since I have not been given the chance to respond to your initial reply yet until now.

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by newance.

Hi @newance,

For example, in your html code link

<a href="https://ultimatemember.com">Ultimate Member Link</a>

add target=”_blank” so that it becomes

<a href="https://ultimatemember.com" target="_blank">Ultimate Member Link</a>

Please see This Link for more information about target=”_blank” attribute.

Thank you.

Hi mansurahamed,

Thank you for the reply.

Can you please advise where and how I can get to the so-called “my html code link”? I don’t see any html link at the backend settings where I checked the box under Appearance / Profile / Enable html support for user description.

I apologize if that’s something everybody should know.

And my active theme is my child theme if that matters.

Thank you.

Hi @newance,

Could you please the value of your user description field? Please go to edit screen of your profile and provide the description field value. If possible, sharing the link of profile will help too.

Thank you.

Hi mansurahamed,

This is the profile url

https://kissolive.flywheelsites.com/user/membercr/

Login in credentials:
flywheel
flywheel

Thank you.

When you said
“Please go to edit screen of your profile and provide the description field value.”

If you meant going to the standard edit page screen of the profile page at backend, then there’s not any fields shown there because all profile pages in UM are just shortcodes inside the page editor. This is not the regular page we create on our own. This is created by UM automatically because of the shortcodes in the page editor.

Are we on the same page? Thank you.

Hi @newance,

I created an account. Please see the user description in header. The link is opening in new tab.

https://kissolive.flywheelsites.com/user/mansur/

To see the description code login as administrator and go to profile edit page which is

https://kissolive.flywheelsites.com/user/mansur/?profiletab=main&um_action=edit

Thank you.

Sorry this was set twice.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by newance.

Hi mansurahamed,

Thank you for the effort, but where should I paste the code to? I don’t just need to change one profile. This is for all the profiles on my site so I’m guessing it should go somewhere other than any single profile.

Sorry but i’m getting frustrated for I feel this feels like a one-way communication.

Thank you.

Hi @newance,

I demonstrated how the user description in profile header works when the html is enabled. You did write, “If I Enable html support for user description in profile header” , in your original post. User description is user dependent, each user has his own description in profile header. That’s how this field works. You will need to customize the plugin for your requirement, I am afraid.

Thank you.

Hi @newance ,

Any user can edit his user description by clicking the gear icon in his profile page and going to “Edit Profile page” . By default Administrators are able to edit this information from any user profile. Hope this helps.

Thank you.

I have to say I’m a lil disappointed to see how this thread ended. I had the same problem with the HTML link opening in the same window, which takes away the traffic we work hard to drive in, which makes it against the web design trend.

Same thing goes to the HTML links in a textarea widget inside a profile form.

I was hoping this thread would solve this problem for me.

It would be nice to see this improved and changed in the next update of UM, and allow Admin the option to choose open HTML link either in a new window or not.

As it stands, it’s incomprehensible to have any HTML links coded to only take away our traffic.

You most probably wouldn’t want to have such setup in your own UM website or your personal website, would you?

Thank you

Hi @newance , @sarahjones123

I have informed this issue to our team, this will be fixed in the next update.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot.