Change author URL

[Paul]

Hello,

I want to change the author URL from the default location to a location specified by me. I currently have a 301 in place to achieve this but would like to remove the redirect hop and have it “hard coded”.

Please let me know if this is possible.

Thanks Paul

[David]

Hi there,

you can use the PHP filter provided here:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_post_author_output/#custom-author-name

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[Paul]

Thanks David – how would I adapt this for a multi author site. I don’t have a huge amount of authors so do I just repeat the function with each author specified? If so could you provide the correct syntax

[David]

Little more complicated – try this instead:

add_filter( 'author_link', 'switch_author_links', 10, 2);

function switch_author_links( $url, $user_id) {
    switch($user_id) {
        case "100":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_1');
            break;
        case "200":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_2');
            break;
        case "300":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_3');
            break;
    }
    return $url;
}

Create a case for each author ID and return the page_slug for that author.

Example:

case "100":
return home_url( 'author_slug_1');

Author ID of 100 will have a link of mywebsite.com/author_slug_1

You can get each Author ID by going to Users > All users and hovering over the number of Posts they have created, the link at the foot of the browser will include the ID.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Paul]

worked a treat. Thanks.

[David]

Awesome – glad to be of help

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

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