Replace link to Author page

Hi Dave,

Can I see your site to check the structure?

Hi Ying,

Sure, what do you need from me in order to do that?

Oh you just need to link me to a page or post where I can see the author's byline :)

Oh sorry, here you go: https://www.irreverentgent.com/best-dr-squatch-soap-scents/

Try this PHP code, just need to replace the 1 in get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) == 1 with your actual user ID.

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output', function() {
	$byline = '<span class="byline">%1$s<span class="author%8$s" %5$s><a class="url fn n" href="%2$s" title="%3$s" rel="author"%6$s><span class="author-name"%7$s>%4$s</span></a></span></span> ';
	$schema_type = generate_get_schema_type();
	 if ( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) == 1 ) {

   printf(
				$byline,
				apply_filters( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', '', 'author' ),
				'https://www.irreverentgent.com/about-dave-bowden/',
				/* 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' ),
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="url"' : '',
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="name"' : '',
				generate_is_using_hatom() ? ' vcard' : ''
		  );
}  else 
	printf(
				$byline,
				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' ),
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="url"' : '',
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="name"' : '',
				generate_is_using_hatom() ? ' vcard' : ''
		   );
});

Where do I add it? I tried adding it to both the functions.php and the content.php files but it didn't seem to work.

You can add the PHP code to the functions.php of your child theme, or to a plugin like code snippet.

Nice. I’m going to try this too.

Hi Scott,

Let me know if it works :)

I added it to code snippet, but no luck, unfortunately!

Can you show me the exact code you are using? please wrap the code with the code tag so it keeps format :)

I just copied what you gave me, and changed the ID number:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output', function() {
	$byline = '<span class="byline">%1$s<span class="author%8$s" %5$s><a class="url fn n" href="%2$s" title="%3$s" rel="author"%6$s><span class="author-name"%7$s>%4$s</span></a></span></span> ';
	$schema_type = generate_get_schema_type();
	 if ( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) == 2 ) {

   printf(
				$byline,
				apply_filters( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', '', 'author' ),
				'https://www.irreverentgent.com/about-dave-bowden/',
				/* 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' ),
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="url"' : '',
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="name"' : '',
				generate_is_using_hatom() ? ' vcard' : ''
		  );
}  else 
	printf(
				$byline,
				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' ),
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="url"' : '',
				'microdata' === $schema_type ? ' itemprop="name"' : '',
				generate_is_using_hatom() ? ' vcard' : ''
		   );
});

Does that author actually have content published? I was experimenting with an unrelated author page issue recently and nothing showed until content was actually published. Once published content from that author was there it worked.

Just a guess …

Have you already used a custom function to change the author byline, if so, the new function might not work?

And make sure the cache is cleared.