[Support request] Change author link to a newly created profile made by a plugin

Hi,

On your filter, try changing this line:

esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ),

To this line:

esc_url( get_site_url(null, 'merchant-profile/?author_id='.get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), null ) ),

But I’ve checked your snippet and it seems incomplete. You’ve removed the anchor tag so no links would appear if you apply that filter.

That said, how do you want the link to appear? If you want the name of the author right beside the image and both as wrapped as a link, try this snippet:

add_filter( 'wpsp_author_output', function() {
	return sprintf(
		'<span class="wp-show-posts-byline wp-show-posts-meta">
					<span class="wp-show-posts-author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">
						<a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="url">
							%4$s<span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span>
						</a>
					</span>
				</span>',
		esc_url( get_site_url(null, 'merchant-profile/?author_id='.get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), null ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'wp-show-posts' ), get_the_author() ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_author() ),
		get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
	);
});

If you want the actual avatar to be the link without the text, try this snippet:

add_filter( 'wpsp_author_output', function() {
	return sprintf(
		'<span class="wp-show-posts-byline wp-show-posts-meta">
			<span class="wp-show-posts-author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">
				<a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="url">
					%4$s
				</a>
			</span>
		</span>',
		esc_url( get_site_url(null, 'merchant-profile/?author_id='.get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), null ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'wp-show-posts' ), get_the_author() ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_author() ),
		get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
	);
});

If you wanted something else, Let us know. 🙂

Last time, I asked you regarding on how I can display author avatar set by another plugin, I got a response from the directory plugin that we are using in our website. They told us to insert this in our code.

Nice one. Thank you.

I’ve converted the code into this to add in the image from the plugin:

add_filter( 'wpsp_author_output', function() {
    $image_id	= get_user_meta( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), 'pro_pic', true );
	$image    	= $image_id ? wp_get_attachment_image_src( $image_id, 'thumbnail' ) : '';
	$image_url 	= is_array( $image ) ? $image[0] : $image;
	return sprintf(
		'<span class="wp-show-posts-byline wp-show-posts-meta">
			<span class="wp-show-posts-author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">
				<a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="url">
					<img src='%4$s' alt='%3$s'>
					<span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span>
				</a>
			</span>
		</span>',
		esc_url( get_site_url(null, 'merchant-profile/?author_id='.get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), null ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'wp-show-posts' ), get_the_author() ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_author() ),
		$image_url
	);
});

As for the tooltip, can you try removing display: inline-block; on the .wp-show-posts-author and see if it works? let us know.

Is there something wrong we did?

It’s quite difficult to tell.

Can you try changing this line from the code on the previous reply.
<img src='%4$s' alt='%3$s'>

To this:
<img src="%4$s" alt="%3$s">

We’re simply changing the ' to " with this line.

To be honest, this is going out of scope as WP Show Posts isn’t exactly written to work with another plugin out of the box.

We can’t guarantee it’ll work smoothly.