[Support request] How to add Q&A area on Author page

Hi there,

you would need to use a plugin like ACF to add a Rich Text field to the User Profile page.
Once thats in place we can assist with getting the user meta content and displaying it on your frontend.

Use a PHP Snippet to create yourself a shortcode to get that rich text:

add_shortcode('author_qa', function(){
    $author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
    $author_qa = get_field('user_field_name', 'user_'. $author_id );
    $html = '<div class="author-qa">' . $author_qa . '<div>';
    
    return $html;
});

In the snippet, change: user_field_name to the name of your field.

To display this, you can:

1. Create a new Block Element:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/block-element-hook/

2. Set the Hook to where you want it displayed eg. after_archive_description

3. Add your [author_qa] Shortcode to the editor.

4. Set the Display Rules > Location to: Author Archives

5. Publish the element

Hi Jeffrey,

Here’s an article you may refer to regarding this: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/#code-snippets

1. This is the PHP Snippet:

add_shortcode('author_qa', function(){
    $author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
    $author_qa = get_field('user_field_name', 'user_'. $author_id );
    $html = '<div class="author-qa">' . $author_qa . '<div>';
    
    return $html;
});

You add this to whatever PHP Snippet plugin you’re using.
It will create a shortcode called: [author_qa]

2. In your element, add the [author_qa] shortcode.

Can you share a link to where it should be displayed ?

Hold up….

It creates shortcode [wpcode id=”80391″]

I assume thats the plugin you’re using doing that ?

As the snippet i gave you IS creating the shortcode [author_qa]

So can you add [author_qa] to your element ?