What is the php function for "user's public profile"

Question

My header looks like this.

I chnaged my author base from "author" to "user"

So the user profile url looks like this.

http://example.com/user/username

What is the php function to get this url.

I'm using like this

<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>user/<?php echo $current_user->user_login ?>"><?php echo $current_user->user_login ?></a>

Its working. But its hard coded.

Is there any other php function to get the url?

Answer 1

For all author meta details you can use the_author_meta

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta

<a href="<?php the_author_meta('user_url', $current_user->ID);?>"><?php the_author_meta('display_name', $current_user->ID);?></a>

If its for user meta use get_user_meta

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta

<a href="<?php echo get_user_meta($current_user->ID, 'user_url');?>"><?php echo get_user_meta($current_user->ID, 'display_name');?></a>

Answer 2

Do you search for get_author_posts_url( $author_id, $author_nicename )?

Note, you need the author ID, not the login name.