[Resolved] Comment author link to author.php rather than website url

[Pete]

Hi Tom, hope you’re getting some decent sleep these days… I have a nifty snippet that makes the author name in comments link to their profile/author page rather than their website. But i doesn’t seem to work with GP. Would I need to put the comment part of template-tags.php in my child theme’s functions.php and edit that?

add_filter( 'comment_author', 'my_site_comment_author' );
function my_site_comment_author( $author ) {
	global $comment;
	if ( $comment->user_id )
		$author = '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url( $comment->user_id ) . '">' . $author . '</a>';
	return $author;
}

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-link-in-a-comment?replies=8

• This topic was modified 8 years ago by Pete.

[Tom]

Interesting, can you confirm that the same block of code is working in the Twenty Sixteen theme?

[Pete]

Nope not working in any theme? What piece of template-tag.php code would I need to use this code below to link the author name to their profile page? (ALL users are authors)

<a href ="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?author=<?php echo $comment->user_id ?>"><?php echo $comment->comment_author?></a>

[Pete]

Found it…

paste the follow part of template-tags.php into your child theme functions.php
I replaced <?php printf( '<cite class="fn">%s</cite>', get_comment_author_link() ); ?>
with <a href ="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?author=<?php echo $comment->user_id ?>"><?php echo $comment->comment_author?></a>

if ( ! function_exists( 'generate_comment' ) ) :
/**
 * Template for comments and pingbacks.
 *
 * Used as a callback by wp_list_comments() for displaying the comments.
 */
function generate_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
	$GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
	$args['avatar_size'] = apply_filters( 'generate_comment_avatar_size', 50 );

	if ( 'pingback' == $comment->comment_type || 'trackback' == $comment->comment_type ) : ?>

	<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" <?php comment_class(); ?>>
		<div class="comment-body">
			<?php _e( 'Pingback:', 'generatepress' ); ?> <?php comment_author_link(); ?> <?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit', 'generatepress' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

	<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" <?php comment_class( empty( $args['has_children'] ) ? '' : 'parent' ); ?>>
		<article id="div-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" class="comment-body">
			<footer class="comment-meta">
				<?php if ( 0 != $args['avatar_size'] ) echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] ); ?>
				<div class="comment-author-info">
					<div class="comment-author vcard">
						<a href ="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?author=<?php echo $comment->user_id ?>"><?php echo $comment->comment_author?></a>
					</div><!-- .comment-author -->

					<div class="entry-meta comment-metadata">
						<a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ); ?>">
							<time datetime="<?php comment_time( 'c' ); ?>">
								<?php printf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', '1: date, 2: time', 'generatepress' ), get_comment_date(), get_comment_time() ); ?>
							</time>
						</a>
						<?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit', 'generatepress' ), '<span class="edit-link">| ', '</span>' ); ?>
						<?php
						comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array(
							'add_below' => 'div-comment',
							'depth'     => $depth,
							'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'],
							'before'    => '<span class="reply">| ',
							'after'     => '</span>',
						) ) );
						?>
					</div><!-- .comment-metadata -->
				</div><!-- .comment-author-info -->

				<?php if ( '0' == $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
				<p class="comment-awaiting-moderation"><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'generatepress' ); ?></p>
				<?php endif; ?>
			</footer><!-- .comment-meta -->

			<div class="comment-content">
				<?php comment_text(); ?>
			</div><!-- .comment-content -->

			
		</article><!-- .comment-body -->

	<?php
	endif;
}
endif; // ends check for generate_comment()

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Pete.

[Tom]

That’ll do it, glad you found a solution 🙂

[Author]

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