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@whiteeagle1985 The author links that are shown in the post comes from the the function which is defined in the wordpress theme. Every theme has a redefine function to print the author link. The solution can be creating a child theme and redefine the function according to your need. I am not sure which theme you are using.

@whiteeagle1985, I checked the generatepress theme, You can put below code in you child theme’s function.php

// Change Post's Author URL to Buddypress Profile URL
add_filter('generate_post_author_output','generate_post_author_output_buddyprss_url');

function generate_post_author_output_buddyprss_url( $post_author_profile_link ){
$post_author_profile_link = sprintf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
			sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%1$s <a class="url fn n" href="%2$s" title="%3$s" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%4$s</span></a></span>',
				__( 'by','generatepress'),
				esc_url( bp_core_get_user_domain( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
				esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Know more about %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
				esc_html( get_the_author() )
			)
		) ;
return  $post_author_profile_link;

}

It should work.

Hi @mastershas thanks so much for this! I was looking for it as well. Do you know how to allow members to edit their profiles so that the profile bio +photo on the bottom of their blog post is the same as the profile bio + photo on their buddypress page?

Hi @mastershas

Thanks so much for this and for your help with the other query I had! I was able to successfully update the member profile page. For example here

and add the profile box at the end of the post page like here

How can I add the follow button in this profile box? I tried to add this code snippet, but I got an error:

<div class="follow_button">
		<div class="follow_icon">
		 			<?php
          $args = array('leader_id' => bp_displayed_user_id(), 'follower_id' => bp_loggedin_user_id(),);
          echo bp_follow_get_add_follow_button($args);
          ?>
		</div>
	</div><div class="clear_follow"></div>

Also, how can I make it so that when someone clicks “view all posts by author”, it goes to their buddypress members page not the author page

Hi, the easiest way to do this is to filter the WP “author link” so that it redirects to the member’s BP profile: https://gist.github.com/dcavins/94e4989cad997d0553e8e5db37f30b40

If you want to change the template used by an article, it will depend on your theme. For instance, if you were using twentyseventeen and wanted to add the author’s link to the meta section at the end of a post, it looks like you’d want to create a new version of the function twentyseventeen_entry_footer(). So you could copy that function to bp-custom.php or your child theme’s functions.php file, then add the function the_author_posts_link() where you want the link to appear. in any case, adding the author link to a post is a common WP task, so I’m guessing there are lots of tutorials about how to manage that part.

You’ll have to read the syntax error warning to see where it is. My code starts with a <?php tag you won’t need if you’re adding it to an existing php file, for instance, so that could be tripping you up.

Yes, anywhere that the author link is created using the the_author_posts_link() function, the link will no longer be /author/username but /members/username.

I just found the answer which works for me:
I would like to know how I can add the link on the members page to the author’s posts now.

Thanks.

/**
 * Filter all instances of the_author_posts_link() so that the "author link"
 * no longer points to the WP author archive at /author/username
 * but instead points to the BuddyPress user profile at /members/username.
 *
 * @param string $link   Calculated link to the author's archive.
 * @param int $author_id ID of the author.
 * @return string Link to the user's BP profile.
 */
add_filter( 'author_link', 'dc_bp_filter_author_link', 10, 2 );
function dc_bp_filter_author_link( $link, $author_id ) {
  return bp_core_get_user_domain( $author_id );
}