query to use to link to taxonomy single page

Question

Hi & thanks in advance to those who could help me sot out he below:

• I have customized my home page, using tpl-home.php to show the authors (eg users...) of the most recent posts - nothing specific yet...-.
• I have customs fields (using ACF) and customs taxonomies, among which the 'member' taxonomy. Some members can be post authors (eg. defined users...) , and I want to create a link from the post author to the corresponding member page (eg. sing-member.php) page. Of course , I defined a custom field within ACF with the post_author ID value, which takes the author/ user_id. In short: I have a custom field 'member_author' with the user_id, pull the post_author value from the list of most recent posts and want to link that to the single-member.php to show the details for the said author if & when he also is amember here are link to my modified home page and to the single-member.php page for the related $post->author / member_author ID

Many thanks again for those patient enough to put me on the right track! Regards, JMB

Answer 1

From reading your question, I assume the following things.

• Your post(s) are related to an author (user)
• Your post(s) are related to a term in the Custom Taxonomy "members", which would have the same slug as a users nicename/username/something.

First, may I recommend losing the 'Members' taxonomy, as Users already have author pages which can be customized author.php. You can create a secondary WP_Query here and list any posts you want attached to that author.

If you want to relate the two together, you'll have to get the post author, then do a compare of the term label/slug to some item on the user. Something like:

$term = get_term_by( 'name', $post_author->first_name . ' ' . $post_author->last_name, 'Members' );
$term_link = get_term_link( $term->term_id ); // mysite.com/members/john-doe

One other thing to note is the template for a single term in Members would be taxonomy-members.php for a general term template, or taxonomy-term-john-doe.php for a specific term.

Answer 2

Hi to all & thanks to Eric,

I have finally managed a somewhat inelegant workaround solution for this: the issue I had was in fact building the URL to link to my 'member single page... What I ended up doing is rebuilding the permalink to the said page like so:

$author_name=str_replace(' ','-',strtolower(sanitize_user(get_the_author_meta('display_name'))));

Which would give me the necessary slug to build my link :

<a href="<?php echo get_site_url();?>/membre/<?php echo $author_name; ?>"><?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name');?></a>

Thank you for reading me !