Is it possible to change where the link to the topic / reply’s author links to ?

Currently when you click on the author’s name it links to the author’s bbPress profile, i would like it to link to my themes author.php file.

Thanks for any replies.

[@spudnic072 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

I have seen some discussion on this, but in the thread they talk about editing the post.php file, but i dont see how that would effect bbPress, and those topics are from around 3 years ago.

[@mzaweb Member 11 years, 8 months ago]

You can use the bbp_get_user_profile_url filter. Something like:

 

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ){
    return get_author_link(false, $user_id);
}

(Not tested, but should help you get on track)

[@spudnic072 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

I Tried:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ){
    return get_author_posts_url(false, $user_id);
}

get_author_link(); appears to have been depreciated.

So using:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ){
return get_author_posts_url( $user_id, false );
}

I am able to get to:

http://localhost/wordpress/author/

which is sooo close to what i need.

I need it to return http://localhost/wordpress/author/$user_name

[@spudnic072 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ){
$author_info = get_userdata( 1 );
$author_name = $author_info->user_nicename; 
return get_author_posts_url( false, $author_name );
}

is working properly.

but when i change the input of
$author_info = get_userdata( 1 );
to
$author_info = get_userdata( $user_id );

I get:

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\WoW_Public_Vent_Theme\functions.php on line 274

and it does not work :(;

Soo close.

[@mzaweb Member 11 years, 8 months ago]

You’re sending false instead of empty. Try this:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ){
  return get_author_posts_url( $user_id, '' );
}

[@spudnic072 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

That got me to:

http://localhost/wordpress/author/

Still missing the user name at the end of the url

[@mzaweb Member 11 years, 8 months ago]

My bad, sorry. Wrong filter.

Do this:

add_filter( 'bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url', 'my_custom_author_link' );
function my_custom_author_link( $user_id ) {
	return get_author_posts_url( $user_id, '' );
}

[@spudnic072 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Your the man. Works beautifully.

Surprised this isn’t standard option ive seen alot of questions on it.

If i continue to use bbPress i might make alittle “customization” faq and will def include this.

Thanks again you’ve been supremely helpful.

[@ryan360 Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Bump. I just copied that function into my functions.php file and it’s still linking to the default bbPress forum user page.

[@ryan360 Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

My hack job solution was to just modify the plugin itself. Line 356 in template.php contains the permalink structure which you can modify to suit your needs.

	// Pretty permalinks
		if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) {
			$url = $wp_rewrite->root . bbp_get_user_slug() . '/%' . bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() . '%';