I realize improving WordPress’s search function is a huge can of worms, but the ONLY additional thing I need it to do is to show results when I search for an author’s name. For example, if we have an author named Katie Johnson, and I search for Katie, I get results where her name is … Read more
Is there any hook that gets trigged when the author of a post is modified from the edit post screen? I can list to the update post hook, but then I will not know whether the author of the post was changed or not. 1 1 There is no special hook to author change. But … Read more
I have a website where users can register, login and their edit profile, they can comment but not post. What I am looking for is a way to display a user profile page (where I display the gravatar and the info about the user) clicking on the username. The url must be something like “www.mywebsite.com/user/username”. … Read more
I need to add the author name as a subdirectory prefix for all user’s posts and pages. For example: example.com/johndoe/ //The author page for John Doe example.com/johndoe/category/test-post/ //Test post by user John Doe example.com/johndoe/test-page/ //Test page by user John Doe If I change the permalink structure to: /%author%/%category%/%postname%/ this works fine for displaying a user’s … Read more
I’m looking for a way to link to author pages within one WordPress install simply by putting the @ symbol in front of a person’s username in a post…. just like on twitter. Example: If the username is “Bill256” and I write “@Bill256” it will be linked to his author page. 2 s 2 This … Read more
There is many a WordPress plugin out there that enhances WordPress search but I have yet to find a plugin that will add user search. Search Everything used to have the functionality but was removed when WP moved to version 2.8. I suspect this was due to the way WP changed how authors were stored. … Read more
The original urls for users look like /author/login/ Is it possible to replace login by user’s id? In my dream urls should become to /users/34/ (34 is user id). Thanks. 3 s 3 you need 3 simple functions and hooks first change the author base: //change author/username base to users/userID function change_author_permalinks() { global $wp_rewrite; … Read more
Given a user id, $user_id, and post id, $post_id, how can I programatically update a wordpress post author? Note: these posts are already created and the author cannot be set upon creation. Another process is creating the post and defaulting to the admin as the author. I don’t have access to creating the post but … Read more
Is there a way to prevent WP from stripping the HTML from the author bio? I need it to keep my paragraphs. Thanks in advance! 🙂 Edit – Although this question has been answered, I will clarify that I was referring to the Bio textarea when editing individual users. 1 1 remove the filter that … Read more
I’m developing my first theme for woocommerce. I need to be able to have “authors” (really “designers”) assigned to woocommerce products. Is that feasible? I was thinking of using the wordpress built-in “author” user, but the interface of a product editing does not provide the “author” box, unlike a “post” editing interface. 1 1 Simply … Read more
