Title: Adding a Second Profile Permalink Base
Last modified: July 25, 2023

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# Adding a Second Profile Permalink Base

 *  [jdowns1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdowns1/)
 * (@jdowns1)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-second-profile-permalink-base/)
 * How do I add a second base to the profile permalink? For example, I want to use
   first name + last name as my base for SEO and readability, but this alone is 
   not unique (I could have two users with the same name), so I want to add the 
   user ID as well.
 * /profile/[user id]/[firstname]-[lastname]
 * I found these two hooks, but I don’t think they’re what I need as when I implement
   either one, it doesn’t change the user’s profile URL:
   my_um_profile_permalinkmy_um_external_profile_url
 * Any help would be appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [jdowns1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdowns1/)
 * (@jdowns1)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-second-profile-permalink-base/#post-16922757)
 * Correction, the filters I’ve tried to use are
   um_profile_permalinkum_external_profile_urlwhere
   $slug is configured to the user-id
 *     ```wp-block-code
       function my_um_profile_permalink( $profile_url, $page_id, $slug ) {
          $first_name = um_user('first_name');
          $last_name = um_user('last_name');
          $profile_url .=  $slug . '/' . $first_name . '-' . $last_name; // replace to your custom link.
       }
       add_filter( 'um_profile_permalink', 'my_um_profile_permalink', 10, 3 );
       ```
   
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 *  Thread Starter [jdowns1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdowns1/)
 * (@jdowns1)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-second-profile-permalink-base/#post-16936848)
 * Any help or suggestions from anyone?

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