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Hi, i am trying to link the user-name in my themes navigation to the user-profile (frontend).

I am on
Wordpress 4.3.1
Buddypress 2.3.4
True Mag Theme 4.1 by CactusThemes

In the theme options i can enable to extend the navigation by the user-name, avatar and a little dropdown menu with links to edit profile and to logout.
Unfortunately the user-name and avatar are empty links and i want to link them to the users profile.
I asked the theme author but he couldn’t help and said i should ask the buddypress author 😉

so this is the html/php code for that little navigation extension

<li class="menu-item current_us">
<?php  
echo '<a class="account_cr" href="<strong>#</strong>">'.$current_user->user_login; 
echo get_avatar( $current_user->ID, '25' ).'</a>';
?>
<ul class="sub-menu">
<li class="menu-item"><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php _e('Edit Profile','cactusthemes') ?></a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>"><?php _e('Logout','cactusthemes') ?></a></li>
</ul>
</li>

as you can see the href on the first a is empty.
Can you tell me what i have to write there to link it to the users profile?

and additionally could you tell me how to link the ‘Edit Profile’ link to the frontend profil-edit screen and not to the wordpress backend?
i noticed that when i activate the extended profile component of buddypress that this works. but then i have to fill that undesired name field on “base”…

The website i am talking about is http://wordpress.freekickerz.net
Login credentials for testing purpose are hallo/hallo

if you need any more information please let me know.

greetings from Cologne, Germany
Jan