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Author Box - Unique Social Link
5 replies · Started by Math on January 29, 2023
Hi,
I'm looking to dynamic add social media links to the author box, which should link to different social media pages based on different authors.
David explained in this support ticket on using author meta field generated by Yoast. If I'm not using Yoast, is there a way to implement this?
Thank you.
Hi there,
Please take a look at this video:
https://youtu.be/4x6CjGOyagc
Hi Leo,
Awesome, thanks a lot!
That solved everything except for website linking. By default, there is a field in Edit Users for "Website" but when I enter website or url inside Meta field name it doesn't seem to work.
I can create another field in function.php for website as an alternative. Is there a way to avoid duplicating the 'Website' field?
Hi Math,
Can you try user_url first? Reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/
You can also add custom user meta through a plugin like ACF. This is what we usually recommend as opposed to custom code.
Let us know how it goes.
user_url works! Thank you very much!
You're welcome, Math!