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link to user's profile (non-template)

@andrew55

Participant

9 years, 8 months ago

I have seen several places where it’s somewhat easy to create a dynamic link to the current logged in user’s profile page using php (using php in a template file).

But what about a link that can be used in a WordPress page or better yet, inside a bbpress topic within the site? I dug up this…

<a href="http://yoursite.com/members/%USERNAME%/">Your Profile</a>

..but from what I’ve seen, and testing it, it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Is there a new, updated method of accomplishing this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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@danbp

Participant

9 years, 8 months ago
Hi @andrew55,
add this snippet to bp-custom.php. Now you can use shortcode [profilo] in any blog post, blog comment, page and BP notice. Note that activity walls are stripped, the shortcode will not work/appear there.

For bbPress topics and replies, use this plugin. Read the doc, as you’ll have to check user capacity to get it to work for participant.
```
function bpfr_link_to_profile() {	

	return ' <a href="'. bp_get_loggedin_user_link() .'">View my profile</a>';			
}
add_shortcode( 'profilo', 'bpfr_link_to_profile' );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'do_shortcode' );
```
@andrew55

Participant

9 years, 8 months ago

This is great – works perfectly – thank you.

Are there calls, such as bp_get_loggedin_user_link, but for a link to logged in user’s friends, messages, email preferences, notifications, etc? Is there maybe a list of these calls somewhere?

Thanks for any clarification.

@danbp

Participant

9 years, 8 months ago

You can directly search in BuddyPress with notepad++ or a similar tool.
Or online, here:
http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/buddypress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

Also by in-depth reading the codex.

@andrew55

Participant

9 years, 8 months ago

Thank you very much – this should keep my busy.

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