[Resolved] How to change author URL to “About Page”?

[Tom]

Hi,

I noticed that my author link points to a page (.com/author/author-name) that redirects to the home page. How can I set a custom author link so that I can point it to my About page instead?

Image here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLFU8nsvihb6A1DGRhCDOXXSegXSMUq-/view?usp=sharing

Thank you!

Tom

[Leo]

Hi there,

Do you only have one author?

Let me know 🙂

[Tom]

Hmm, right now only 1 author (me) but I intended to add additional authors soon.

Really, what I’m concerned with is the SEO impact – if Google is crawling the author link and not finding the about page after.

Preferably, if there’s a way to customize the link URL for each author to a specific page, that would be ideal.

[Leo]

You could do something like this:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_post_author_output/#custom-author-name

[Tom]

Gotcha. Works for a single author. For multiple authors, seems like I could use an IF statement and use the same replacement code to give them a custom URL page. If so, what field should I put in the IF statement?

[Leo]

I believe this should work:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output', function( $output ) {    
    if ( '2' == $author_id ) {
        return '<a href="MY CUSTOM URL">My Name</a>';
    }
} );

[Tom]

Great thanks, I’ll try that for my next author.

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Author]

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