22
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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 ...
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votes
How to remove the author pages?
You can also add the redirect to the author template directly. In your WordPress theme, edit the author.php file to redirect users to your homepage. If your theme doesn't have a template for author ...
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11
votes
Echo author ID in author.php
Try this simply code
if (is_author()){
$author = get_queried_object();
$author_id = $author->ID;
}
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9
votes
Get only the author profile picture image url inside a loop
Putting the following inside loop should fulfill your needs:
<?php
$get_author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
$get_author_gravatar = get_avatar_url($get_author_id, array('size' => 450));
if(...
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7
votes
How to force listing contributors in authors dropdown menu
You can just use wp_dropdown_users_args filter instead of creating metabox
add_filter('wp_dropdown_users_args', 'display_administrators_and_subscribers_in_author_dropdown', 10, 2);
function ...
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6
votes
Get_the_author doesn't return author name
Though echoing worked for the OP, the issue could be related to setting up the post manually, as was in my case. Here is the code:
$post = get_post();
setup_postdata($post); // setting up the post ...
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6
votes
Check if author or current user has posts published
diving into this I found that count_user_posts() is a better solution. it's shorter, and also cheaper in resources than get_posts();
so here it is:
$user_id = get_current_user_id(); //the logged in ...
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votes
How to remove the author pages?
You can disable the access to author pages by adding this snippet to functions.php:
// Disable access to author page
add_action('template_redirect', 'my_custom_disable_author_page');
function ...
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5
votes
add capability to author role to be able to delete attachments
Here is how to allow edition and deletion of attachments for owned ones only to a custom role.
Add the capabilities 'manage_other_users_attachments' and 'manage_own_attachments' to the admin role, ...
5
votes
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Remove author link wherever author's name is display
You have actually two problems to solve here:
The first one is to remove the HTML link, which you are trying to achieve right now. As you read in the comments, it depends on your theme. You could ...
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5
votes
Accepted
Missing Author Information
To display the author's avatar within The Loop use get_avatar() like that:
<?php print get_avatar(get_the_author_meta('ID'), '30', '', '', ['class' => 'foo-bar']); ?>
To display the ...
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4
votes
Force display name as full name
A better solution is to update the display name every time the user is updated. I'm resorting this old thread because I cannot find this solution anywhere.
/* First name as default display name. */
...
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4
votes
Get the comment author ID by the comment ID
you should use it: <?php get_comment( $id, $output ); ?>
Return
comment_ID
(integer) The comment ID
comment_post_ID
(integer) The post ID of the associated post
comment_author
(string) The ...
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4
votes
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Check if author or current user has posts published
Using get_posts or WP_query with similar $args:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'your_custom_post_type',
'author' => get_current_user_id(),
);
$wp_posts = get_posts($args);
if (...
4
votes
Change destination author link
To only edit the link associated with authors, in the functions.php of your theme:
add_filter( 'author_link', 'new_author_link', 10, 1 );
function new_author_link( $link ) {
$link = 'http:...
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4
votes
Generate an Email address from that of the Post Author
Try using author_meta.
<?php
$author_email = get_the_author_meta('user_email');
?>
<a href="mailto:<?php echo $author_email;?>?subject=<?php the_title(); ?>">Apply</...
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4
votes
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Generate an Email address from that of the Post Author
You can use get_the_author_meta function. You can learn more about it here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/
Usage in your case:
<a href="mailto:<?php ...
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4
votes
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Hide Author.php template from specific user role
The template_include hook allows you to change which template file is going to be used.
In it, you can conditionally check if it's an author page requested, then use get_query_var() to get the ...
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4
votes
Accepted
How to get posts without author?
That won't be as easy as you'd like to... get_posts uses WP_Query to get posts and if you take a look at WP_Query code, ten you'll see, that 0 is used as empty in there (https://core.trac.wordpress....
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4
votes
How to force the Author Dropdown to display in Quick/Bulk edit?
After digging through many bug reports I found a solution to the issue I was facing. The problem I was having is related to a new feature in 6.0 for sites with over 10K user accounts which ...
- 51
3
votes
Get the comment author ID by the comment ID
Use get_comment to return information about the comment like comment_author_email.
You can then try to get a user by email using get_user_by('email', $comment_author_email).
Once you have the ...
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3
votes
Author archive only for custom post type
According to this blogpost you just need to add the following code to your themes functions.php or in a plugin:
/* Add CPTs to author archives */
function custom_post_author_archive($query) {
if (...
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3
votes
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How to add the author search in the default wordpress search?
This plugin called "WP Extended Search" looks like it would do the trick.: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/
There's also this answer that may work for you: Possible to search by ...
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3
votes
How to set author for post AND post attachments
I extended the above solution of @brasofilo to also change the attachment post date to the date of the post parent.
And not only on upload of the attachment, but also when an attachment is edited. ...
- 31
3
votes
Get attachment ID of author_meta image - Attachment Metadata
I suggest you to use the more newer media manager dialog; WordPress will hanlde all the image upload stuff, including generating intermediate sizes and attachement metadata.
Here a working example (...
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3
votes
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Author list 'special' author first then 'normal' author
The 'special' authors have in usermeta a meta key called
'werksortgodmodus' with meta value 'yes'. The 'rest' of the authors
have 'werksortgodmodus' = no .
You could e.g. order by the meta value ...
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3
votes
Get author if post has multiple authors
The Co-Authors Plus plugin uses it's own template tags which replace the default WordPress tags, the_author() and the_author_posts_link().
coauthors() - Outputs the co-authors display names, without ...
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3
votes
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Use another author.php if different multisite subsite?
This was the solution..
// different author template */
add_filter( 'template_include', 'author_template', 99 );
function author_template( $template ) {
if( !is_main_site() and is_author( ) ) {
...
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3
votes
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Get total number of comment of the posts written by an author
You could use get_comments(), this way you don't have to loop through posts.
<?php
$args = array(
'post_author' => '' // fill in post author ID
);
$author_comments = ...
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3
votes
Accepted
How to force listing contributors in authors dropdown menu
Here's a solution that will remove the original author meta box and replace it with a similar, but customized version which includes users with the contributor role.
The logic for adding/removing the ...
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