[Support request] redirecting author archive links to about page

[Todd Sindlinger]

Thanks for responding, you guys – Yes, I am the only author of my website. I thought it would be nice to redirect author archive links to my about page. Do you have a code snippet I could try adding to theme’s function php to handle this? I have a staging sight to give it a try. Thanks so much!

[David]

Hi there,

this is the PHP Snippet:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output', function() {
    printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
        sprintf( '<span class="byline">%1$s<span class="author vcard" %5$s><a class="url fn n" href="https://LINK-TO-ABOUT-PAGE" title="%3$s" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%4$s</span></a></span></span> ',
			apply_filters( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', '', 'author' ),
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			/* translators: 1: Author name */
			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() ),
			generate_get_microdata( 'post-author' )
        ) 
    );
} );

In the code you will see this URL

https://LINK-TO-ABOUT-PAGE

Change that to the URL of your About page.

[Todd Sindlinger]

Thanks for all your help, David. I was successful in creating that redirect in a different way. By the way, I am very pleased with GeneratePress pro, it has everything I need! Your support forum is also awesome and greatly appreciated. Stay safe and be well…

[David]

Glad to hear that!

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