Hi there,

I’m working with a custom profile setup (consolidating the profiles from multiple plugins) and and wondering how I can redirect a bbpress user to this central profile when they try to access their forum profile. In other words, how do I make it so that someone who tries to visit:

http://www.example.com/forums/user/johnsmith

is redirected to:

http://www.example.com/profile

I saw a very old post in this forum that discussed this topic, and they suggested using the following method:

add_action('bb_init', 'profile_redirect');

function profile_redirect() {
    if (is_bb_profile() && $_GET['tab'] != 'edit' && $_GET['tab'] != 'favorites') {
        $user = bb_get_user($_GET['id']);
        if ($user) wp_redirect("http://www.example.com/member/" . $user->user_nicename);
    }
}

Since it’s so old, it doesn’t work anymore, and honestly, what I’d like to do is slightly different. I’d like to redirect a user away from the profile page (regardless of which section they’re on–whether it be favorites, subscriptions, or edit profile) as long as:

1. They are logged in
2. They are on their ownprofile page

How could I do that with the current version of WordPress?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 8 months ago]

so where do you want them to go if they are either not logged in, or are looking at someone else’s profile page? (as that’ll determine where you might start!)

[@piperpam27 Participant 10 years, 8 months ago]

Sorry, that wasn’t clear in my first post. They’ll regardless of which user is logged in, they’ll need to go here:

http://www.example.com/profile

The session data will determine which information to display.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 8 months ago]

suggest you start with looking at

bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/members.php

This changes bbpress to go to buddypress profile, and should give you all the code you need.

[@piperpam27 Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

Great, thanks!

[@piperpam27 Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

For future readers, I was able to accomplish the redirect with this simple line of code:

add_filter( 'bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile';
});

Very simple, really!

You can also change the default url for favorites and subscriptions by doing this:

// Replace the default link for the favorites
add_filter( 'bbp_get_favorites_permalink', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile/forum-favorites';
});

// Replace the default link for subscriptions
add_filter( 'bbp_get_subscriptions_permalink', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile/forum-subscriptions';
});

Of course, if you’re using pre PHP 5.3.1 (or are developing a plugin) you’ll need to create actual functions rather than using anonymous functions.