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Link from WordPress Author Page to Buddypress Profile Page

@catwomanbadkitty

Participant

11 years, 3 months ago

Hello,
I am trying to link the WordPress author name on the Author page to their Buddypress profile. I know that Buddypress and WordPress share the same username so I found the Author title in my theme/functions/actions.php file and have added some tags. What I cant figure out is how to link to profile. Is it “USERNAME” or “%USERNAME%?

<h2 class=”author-title”>Posts By <?php the_author_meta(‘display_name’, $author_id); ?> </h2>

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@catwomanbadkitty

Participant

11 years, 3 months ago

Not sure why my code got cut off. Will try it again:

<h2 class="author-title">Posts By <a href="<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>"><?php the_author_meta('display_name', $author_id); ?></a> </h2>

@shanebp

Moderator

11 years, 3 months ago

read:

bp_core_get_userlink()

try:
<h2 class="author-title"><?php printf( _x( 'by %s', 'Posts by...', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( $author_id ) ); ?></h2>

@catwomanbadkitty

Participant

11 years, 2 months ago

Thanks @shanebp
Works perfectly!
Linking the author page through to the profile page is in my opinion the best way to join WordPress to Buddypress because it allows viewers looking at blogs on the author page to choose to click through to the bp profile or to continue to look at more blog posts by category.
Thanks a lot for the code. Great solution!

@mcpeanut

Participant

10 years, 10 months ago

@shanebp @catwomanbadkitty hey shane or catwoman or anyone else that reads this could you please tell me where i would add this code in my child theme as i really need this function too. or what file would i need to add to my child theme to do this, ty

@ubernaut

Participant

10 years, 10 months ago

i think the code just goes in your page template.

@toubidoula

Participant

10 years, 10 months ago

Hello, I have the same question. Could somebody explain where to put that code ?

Best regards,

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