Seems like integrating the “Edit Profile” link in various places on a site is a common issue here folks are running into on the forums.

So I hacked out a quick shortcode for a project i was working on that required us to include a link to the user’s edit profile page in a popup.
(Please note, the specific site i wrote this for was NOT using pretty links).

Placed in your child-theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin

/*--Generate BBporess Edit Profile Link in a shortcode--*/
function bbp_edit_profile_link($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'text' => "",  // default value if none supplied
		'class' => "" //Style class for link
    ), $atts));
    
    if ($text) {
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user (); 
		$user=$current_user->ID;
        return '<a class="'. $class . '" href="/?bbp_user=' . $user . '&edit=1">' . $text. '</a>';
    } 
}
add_shortcode('bbp_edit_profile', 'bbp_edit_profile_link');

Attributes:
text = Your output text (i.e. “Edit My Profile”)
class = Custom anchor class (i.e. “my-link-style”)

Example
[bbp_edit_profile text="Edit My Profile" class"my-link-style"]

It’s a bit sloppy, but it works. Maybe someone else might find it useful…

[@oyegigi Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

In case someone wants to use the code who is using pretty links.

// Generate BBporess Edit Profile Link in a shortcode
// [bbp_edit_profile text="Edit My Profile" class"my-link-style"]

function bbp_edit_profile_link($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'text' => "",  // default value if none supplied
		'class' => "" //Style class for link
    ), $atts));
    
    if ($text) {
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user (); 
		$user=$current_user->user_login;
        return '<a class="'. $class . '" href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">' . $text. '</a>';
        
    } 
}
add_shortcode('bbp_edit_profile', 'bbp_edit_profile_link');

[@struth Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

Hey oyegigi,

Thanks for this, it works like a charm. I used the plugin “Shortcodes in Menus” as a quick solution to output to a menu.

Would be great if you could amend the code to show, only if user is logged in?

Thanks again!

[@michent1 Participant 7 years, 4 months ago]

I ended up having to dig this snippet backup for a new project and made some tweaks.

@struth Updated to only output if user is logged in.

	/**
	 * Generate BBpress Edit Profile Link in a shortcode
	 *
	 * @param $atts, text|class
	 * @example [bbp_edit_profile text="Edit My Profile" class"my-link-style"]
	 * @return string|void
	 *
	 */
	function bbp_edit_profile_link( $atts ) {
		
		//If user isn't logged in, return nothing
		if(!is_user_logged_in()) {
			return;
		} else {
			
			extract( shortcode_atts( array(
				                         'text'  => "",  // default value if none supplied
				                         'class' => "" //Style class for link
			                         ), $atts ) );
			
			if ( $text ) {
				$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
				$user         = $current_user->user_login;
				
				return '<a class="' . $class . '" href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">' . $text . '</a>';
				
			}
		}
	}
	
	add_shortcode( 'bbp_edit_profile', 'bbp_edit_profile_link' );

[@struth Participant 7 years, 4 months ago]

WOW, thanks for this michent1, I’ll try this and report back soon

Way cool!

[@hmprivate Participant 6 years, 6 months ago]

@michent1 – thank you – your updated version + the original shortcode by op works as a charm (had some issues with the original one).

[@angeljs Participant 5 years ago]

I’ve been searching for ages for a simple edit profile link! This takes me to the profile page, thank you, but clicking the submit button takes me to a page not found error. 🙁

[@uksentinel Participant 3 years, 11 months ago]

Can anybody confirm if the above edit profile link still works as this is exactly what I am struggling with at the moment to provide a way for BBPRESS members to access their profile ?

There are options via paid plugin etc, but I am looking to achieve this at no financial cost if at all possible 😉

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[@tijana1234 Participant 3 years, 6 months ago]

Hey,

I hope someone could help me. I used this code from @michent and it works prefectly, except one thing:

When username is just like: tijana, then it works prefectly.

But when username has dot, like tijana.medan, then it does’t work, becuase the link than is:
http://Www.site.com/forums/users/tijana.medan
and the right link is:
http://Www.site.com/forums/users/tijana-medan

Could someone help me, what should I add or change in code so I can reslove this? It means a lot, because all my users have username with dots aka name.lastname

Thank you!!

[@tijana1234 Participant 3 years, 6 months ago]

I found solution. Just added:
$user = str_replace(“.”, “-“, $user);

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 6 months ago]

🙂