I would like to change the author link in wordpress posts: [image] To link to the authors profile in Discourse. I found this snippet which is similar to what I want to achieve, I modified it slightly. add_filter( 'author_link', 'change_author_link', 10, 1 ); function change_author_link($li…

[image] davidkingham: any idea why this would not be working? Yes, $user_id isn’t available inside of your function. You need to pass the author’s id to the function as a parameter. Try this code. It also checks if the Discourse username has been set. If it’s not set, the default author link …

[image] davidkingham: But I don’t know how to retrieve the discourse username from wordpress, For users who have set their Discourse username on WordPress, you can get the username with: get_user_meta( $user_id, 'discourse_username', true ); $user_id needs to be set to the user’s WordPress …

Thanks Simon, any idea why this would not be working? add_filter( 'author_link', 'change_author_link', 10, 1 ); $user_id=the_author_meta('ID'); function change_author_link($link) { $username = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'discourse_username', true ); $link = 'https://community.naturephotograp…

Change author url in WP to Discourse profile

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davidkingham (David Kingham) April 11, 2019, 1:19am 5

Brilliant, thank you Simon!

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Change author url in WP to Discourse profile

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