The default Kakumei theme shows two variables in the user section of every post, at left.

You can see them both here as well, in this very post.

The first one is defined in the profile page as Display name as and links to whatever appears in the Website field.

The second one is defined in the profile page as User Type (which most often defaults to Member), links to the Profile page of the specific user, and could be changed by the Custom Title field.

How would it be possible to drop the User Type and just keep the Display name as linking to the user Profile page?

[@gerikg Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

You can edit your theme or use this plugin https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/ it will give you teh option to what links to what.

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Plugins are good but as my humble experience goes the less I use of them the better: it is not rare that they conflict with each other. In other cases they also switch unexpected behaviours somewhere. Moreover, that plugin seems to be much more than I need.

Most probably in this very case a simple code edit in the right template would do, but I do not know where and how to touch. Does anybody have an idea of the needed change, please?

[@gerikg Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

post.php

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

So in post.php there is this code

<p>

<strong><?php post_author_link(); ?></strong><br />

<small><?php post_author_title_link(); ?></small>

</p>

which should be changed into…?

The point is that just dropping the post_author_title_link(); wouldn’t do.

I need to first have the author display name link to his/her profile page.

But I have no clue…

[@gerikg Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

just take out “_link”

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

No.

I need to have the author display name link to his/her profile page.

[@gerikg Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

<a href="profile.php?id=<?php echo get_post_author_id(); ?>"><?php post_author();?></a>

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Yet something is wrong. It does not work.

Link should most probably look like

http://www.example.com/forum/profile/user

The right code is probably hidden in the header, where it says

Welcome, User | Log Out

That User link is the one I’m after, but cannot find out how it is built.

[@kawauso Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

It’s generated by the template logged-in.php, which in Kakumei looks like:

<p class="login">

<?php printf(__('Welcome, %1$s'), bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' )));?>

<?php bb_admin_link( 'before= | ' );?>

| <?php bb_logout_link(); ?>

</p>

So you’d want bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' ))

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

So, if I now understand right, I cannot use any piece of it.

Would it really be that hard to get the poster name and link it to his/her profile page, quite simply?

I cannot find how.

[@kawauso Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

bb_get_profile_link(post_author()) would probably work

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Yes, this seems to do the trick

<a href="http://www.example.com/forum/profile/<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>">

<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>

</a>

Hardcoding the path is not nice, but at least it works.

Thank you!

[@kawauso Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

You shouldn’t need the separate <a> tag, that function should be returning a complete <a> tag with the text passed to it (or using the ID number if one is given)

[@gerikg Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

sorry about that. I forget people use permalinks.

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Nope, Kawauso.

<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>

just renders the poster name, without any link.

[@bbhack Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Do this:

<a href="<?php echo esc_attr( get_user_profile_link( get_post_author_id() ) ); ?>"><?php echo get_post_author(); ?></a>

[@kawauso Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

<?php bb_profile_link( array( 'id' => get_post_author_id(), 'text' => get_post_author() ) ); ?>

@bbback: you can avoid echoing get_ functions by dropping the get_, there’s always an echo alias function

@kirpi.it: my bad, I left it using an echo function rather than returning the output

[@kirpiit Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

Ok, this one works smooth!

Thanks again.

[@james-blacker Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Tom also provided the follwing, which worked for me after I couldn’t get any of the above to work.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/are-usernames-with-spaces-sensible