How to create a profile page for specfic / custom user role members?

Question

I am trying to create a profile page for every user if his / her role is a custom role.

Ive created a custom role in my site. Now this is the default role is assigned to the members when they register on the site.

I have contributors.php and authors.php. If I go to www.mysite.com/authorsit lists all the users without considering the role. Then I used Author Base using generate_rewrite_rules to rewrite this URL.

Now if I go to www.mysite.com/mycustomrole it lists all the users. It's fine for me.

Next step to create a profile page for each members. So I've created author.php

When I have the users below,

• user1 - administrator
• user2 - custom role
• user3 - administrator
• user4 - custom role

I am able to see thier profile page like this.

• If I go to www.mysite.com/authors/user1 it shows his profile.
• If I go to www.mysite.com/authors/user2 it does not show his profile.
• If I go to www.mysite.com/authors/user3 it shows his profile.
• If I go to www.mysite.com/authors/user4 it does not show his profile.

So I am getting individule profile page only for administrator role user and not for my custom created role users. Why is that.

For now my requirements are:

• 1. I want to get the URL for an individual custom user like : www.mysite.com/customrole/user1
• 2. I want to show the custom role users only under that URL. but it's fine if I am able to show other role users too under that url.

How can I do this WOTHOUT using any plugins?

Answer 1

You noted that you are using custom post types.

To see if that is the problem:

1. Create a normal "post" for each user (not a custom post type)
2. See if their pages suddenly show up.

If so, then more than likely your author page is not set up to show show custom posts.

To fix that, you might use something like the following in your funtions.php file (or alter the query on the authors page):

function my_show_special_posts_on_author( WP_Query $query ) {
    # Make sure you are only altering the query on the author page
    if ( $query->is_author() && $query->is_main_query() && !is_admin() ) {
        # Grab the current post types to be shown
        $types_to_show = $query->get('post_type');
        $types_to_add = array( 'custom_post_type_1', 'custom_post_type_2' );
        if ( is_array($types_to_show) ) {
            # Already showing an array of types, add yours if not already included
            foreach ( $types_to_add as $post_type ) {
               if ( !in_array($post_type, $types_to_show) ) {
                  $types_to_show[] = $post_type;
               }
            }
        } else if ( empty($types_to_show) ) {
            # Strange. Not showing any types. Add yours anywise.
            $types_to_show = $types_to_add;
        } else {
            # A single one as a string, add it to your types to add then overwrite types to show
            $types_to_add[] = $types_to_show;
            $types_to_show = $types_to_add;
        }
        $query->set('post_type', $types_to_show);
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_show_special_posts_on_author');

Be sure to adjust the line $types_to_add = array( ... );

That should force your custom post types to show.