How to change the author link format

  • Resolved Modifiedcontent

    (@modifiedcontent)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    The DW Q&A plugin produces links to author/questioner pages in this format:

    http://mywebsite.com/questions/?user=username

    In my custom theme, multisite, I need them to be in this format:

    http://mywebsite.com/username

    I had added this to functions.php, based on a function in Buddypress:

    function modified_author_link ( $user_id = 0, $user_nicename = false, $user_login = false ) {

if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
	return;
}

$user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );
$username = $user_info->user_login;

$domain = trailingslashit( network_home_url() . '/' . $username );
return $domain;
}
add_filter( ‘author_link’, ‘modified_author_link’ );

    But it doesn’t do anything. What am I doing wrong? Other suggestions?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/dw-question-answer/

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  • Thread Starter Modifiedcontent

    (@modifiedcontent)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    I see the mywebsite.com/questions/?user=username comes from User.php. To get the author_link format I want, I have to change this in function dwqa_get_author_link:

    if ( $question_link ) {
		return add_query_arg( array( 'user' => urlencode( $user->user_login ) ), $question_link );
	} else {
		return get_the_author_link( $user_id );
	}

    …to this:

    if ( $question_link ) {
		return network_home_url() . $user->user_login;
	} else {
		return get_the_author_link( $user_id );
	}

    Can I do that with a filter?

    Plugin Author DesignWall

    (@designwall)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi modifiedcontent,

    Thank you so much, modifiedcontent. I will add this filter in the next version of DW Q&A.

    Thread Starter Modifiedcontent

    (@modifiedcontent)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Great. Thanks!

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