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1. circuit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am trying to code a static link into a forum profile which takes the user to the author.php for that profile. [The forum and Wordpress share the same database].

   I understand that the link has to be in this format:

   http://www.domain.com/author/joe

   however if the user name has spaces in, i can't use that method.

   is it possible to pass the user ID nubmer to author.php instead?

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   however if the user name has spaces in, i can't use that method

   Of course you can, you just need to encode the space as %20

   you can either do that yourself when you make the links (blah) or write a simple function that uses str_replace to do it.

3. circuit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok, i have that working OK but i still can't get the link to pull the right posts.

   for example: i am passing the author login to the link, but... this works:

   http://www.copsandrobbers.net/author/Summertime%20Dudes

   this does not:

   http://www.copsandrobbers.net/author/brudenell%20ents%20committee

   i think it would always work if i passed 'user_nicename'. but do i need to? have i missed something silly here?

4. circuit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   bump...

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