Steam ID in profile

[Admin]

There is an option to display your steam id and a small icon to reference your steam id in your posts.

Steam has more than one method and if your change to a custom url (this option changes your name) your profile url will change. 

For this to work in the forum this custom profile settings uses the steamID64.

You can easily find all variations of your Steam profile by going here.

http://steamidconverter.com/

Use the steamID64 number in your forum profile.


Since Steam is kind of AFU in regards to profiles and ids

This is the easy way to find your steamID64

1) Log into Steam  and go to settings

Select the checkbox  for "Display Steam Url address bar when available.

 

2) View your profile - go to the upper right hand corner and select view profile..

 

3) your profile link should be exposed.

In this case I am using a custom url but most people would have number id.

If there is a number, then this is the steamID64. If your using a custom url then you would need the steam converter to find the steamID64.

The link should look like this (your number will be different).

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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656129800137760

[Admin]

Just in case...

It should look like this in your forum profile...

[Admin]

You know, this doesn't work in the BIS (Arma 3) forum. In fact, I've tried everything I can think of, but I still get the same error message from Steam: "The specified profile could not be found."

The difference seems to be that BIS links to http://steamcommunity.com/id/xxx, while your site links to http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/xxx. I don't know what the difference is, but I can't find anything that will work in my BIS profile.

Bill

Actually this aspect of steam frustrates a lot of people.  So BIS is using the the custom url.

To get the bis version to work (This should not impact anything here)

1) Go to your settings  and select the change profile




2) Then change the custom url to what ever name you want





This is the format the BIS is using.