[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49127: Clicking on "View" under any user under Users >>> goes to homepage of installation

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#49127: Clicking on "View" under any user under Users >>> goes to homepage of
installation
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 Reporter:  bobteree     |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users        |    Version:  5.3.2
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui           |
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 The above is not really a bug, but confusing for the following use-cases.
 We deal with eCommerce (WooCommerce) -centric sites/customers.

 We have 1000's of customers listed under the User >> tab.

 Sometimes a shopkeeper or admin wants to "View" a particular customer's
 information (e.g. bill to or ship to address or phone number, etc.).

 But when you click on "View" you go to the installation's homepage, which
 is odd. This feature seems to have been built for a blog-centric world as
 the URL structure is site.com/author/username. If that particular user has
 blog posts, it goes to a webpage that lists all of that user's blog posts.
 But if you have no blog posts (as most e-commerce users make no posts),
 you go to homepage.

 Perhaps this is a recommendation for WooCommerce. Such that if you install
 the WooCommerce plugin, this "View" link might also go to the same
 location as "Edit" where you can see a user's information as well as edit
 it. This is a minimal solution. Better yet, would be to go to a very
 ecommerce-centric use case page that details that users information as
 well as past orders or something.

 Note that if you have installed bbpress, this link is taken over by that
 Plugin and it goes to the Forum profile for that user. I think this is a
 good precedence for WooCommerce to make this link go to a better place
 than the homepage.

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