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Change author permalink

you need 3 simple functions and hooks first change the author base: //change author/username base to users/userID function change_author_permalinks() { global $wp_rewrite; // Change the value of the author permalink base to whatever you want here $wp_rewrite->author_base=”users”; $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); } add_action(‘init’,’change_author_permalinks’); then add users to query_vars: add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘users_query_vars’); function users_query_vars($vars) { // add lid to the … Read more

Programatically change post author

It shouldn’t be any problem. Try this: $arg = array( ‘ID’ => $post_id, ‘post_author’ => $user_id, ); wp_update_post( $arg );

How can HTML be allowed in Author Bio?

remove the filter that formats the description. put this in your theme’s functions.php: remove_filter(‘pre_user_description’, ‘wp_filter_kses’); EDIT – I should mention, if you allow random people to register and add their own bio for display on the site, not filtering that text could enable bad things.

Woocommerce: assign an “author” to a product

Simply use add_post_type_support: add_action(‘init’, ‘wpse_74054_add_author_woocommerce’, 999 ); function wpse_74054_add_author_woocommerce() { add_post_type_support( ‘product’, ‘author’ ); } User assigned with custom role Authors enabled in Products post type Another option, which I’m not sure of its correctness, it to hook into woocommerce_register_post_type* and register the post type first. This is a copy of the original function plus … Read more

Echo author ID in author.php

Try this code. $author = get_user_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘author_name’ ) ); echo $author->ID; Alternatively, if author name has not been set use: if ( $author_id = get_query_var( ‘author’ ) ) { $author = get_user_by( ‘id’, $author_id ); } credit @AndyAdams in the easily missed comments bellow

Override default url for author pages?

You might wish to try.. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-author-base/ Hope that helps.. 😉

Change the Author Slug from Username to Nickname

I see two ways to solve this problem: changing the data that forms the author URL, or changing the author URL. You probably should handle redirects too, so old URLs to user archives keep working when a user changes their nickname. Changing the author URL There are two parts to this question: handle incoming links … Read more

Select subscriber as author of post in admin panel?

This is a simple hack I wrote in a similar situation. It will display all the Subscribers in the Author dropdown on edit/add post/page, from where you can select any one you want. I think it should work for you… add_filter(‘wp_dropdown_users’, ‘MySwitchUser’); function MySwitchUser($output) { //global $post is available here, hence you can check for … Read more

How to get a buddypress user profile link and a certain user profile field for the current post author?

For an author’s profile link, use bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) to get the URL, and bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id ) to get an HTML link element, including display name. For the xprofile data, use xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id ) $field can be either the name of the field (like ‘Biography’) or the numerical field id.

How to remove the author pages?

The above answer is good, but if redirecting to home page, it should specify a 301 status and exit after. add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘my_custom_disable_author_page’); function my_custom_disable_author_page() { global $wp_query; if ( is_author() ) { // Redirect to homepage, set status to 301 permenant redirect. // Function defaults to 302 temporary redirect. wp_redirect(get_option(‘home’), 301); exit; } } wp_redirect() … Read more

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