[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23143: Change user "website" profile field to "Web Profile page"

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#23143: Change user "website" profile field to "Web Profile page"
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 Reporter:  mark-k       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close        |
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Comment (by JDTrower):

 I believe your proposal would be a big change for a lot of people.  In
 looking at several WordPress sites I have running, only 1 person out of a
 couple hundred have their website pointed to another profile page.
 Everyone else that does list a website (I didn't crunch numbers, but my
 guess would be less than 5% of the registered users) they are pointed to a
 personal web site or personal blog, not to their Twitter account, Facebook
 account, or any other social or profile site.  Personally, when I register
 on a blog or web site running WordPress, I use my personal web site.

 Replying to [comment:7 mark-k]:
 > @markoheijnen, Whatever the solution will be it has to be in core
 because otherwise you get married to a plugin/theme with no way to
 divorce. Right now yoast implements this in his own way in his SEO plugin
 and "All in one SEO" implements differently, and there are several plugins
 dedicated for google authorship which have their own settings.

 What you described though is the wonderful thing about plugins.  There are
 different ways of implementing the same thing and different people will
 implement it in different ways.  That doesn't mean its wrong or that it
 needs to be moved to core to be standardized.  What you are proposing,
 would lessen the value of the web site field within WordPress.  IMHO, if
 WordPress wanted to do anything with the web site field at all, it should
 be to do away with it since most people don't populate the field any way.
 However, I think it should be left as is.  Your proposal is an edge case
 best left to plugin territory, as is currently the case.  I strongly
 recommend closing as wontfix.

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