I have two questions about authors/users on my site.

1. For some reason the author/post meta link is not linking to anything. It used to link to an archive page of that specific author’s past posts. How do I get this link back in the post meta?

2. How can I customize the author archive page? I want to include a photo (user avatar photo) of the author and their name with a short bio/description of the author preferably on the top of the page. This is a pretty basic WP function, but I cannot figure out how to get it to work with X-Themes.

Thank you for your help!
Olivia

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Because this requires a template change, I’d advise that you setup a child theme. This allows you to make code changes that won’t be overwritten when an X update is released. After your child theme is setup, please review how we recommend making template changes in Customization Best Practices.

#1: To add author link to your post meta, add following in your child theme’s functions.php file:

// Entry Meta
// =============================================================================

if ( ! function_exists( 'x_ethos_entry_meta' ) ) :
  function x_ethos_entry_meta() {

    //
    // Author.
    //

    // $author = sprintf( ' %1$s %2$s</span>',
    //   __( 'by', '__x__' ),
    //   get_the_author()
    // );

    $author = ' by <a href="'.  get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta( 'ID' )) . '">' . get_the_author() . '</a></span>';

    //
    // Date.
    //

    $date = sprintf( '<span><time class="entry-date" datetime="%1$s">%2$s</time></span>',
      esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
      esc_html( get_the_date() )
    );

    //
    // Categories.
    //

    if ( get_post_type() == 'x-portfolio' ) {
      if ( has_term( '', 'portfolio-category', NULL ) ) {
        $categories        = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'portfolio-category' );
        $separator         = ', ';
        $categories_output = '';
        foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
          $categories_output .= '<a href="'
                              . get_term_link( $category->slug, 'portfolio-category' )
                              . '" title="'
                              . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;", '__x__' ), $category->name ) )
                              . '"> '
                              . $category->name
                              . '</a>'
                              . $separator;
        }

        $categories_list = sprintf( '<span>%1$s %2$s',
          __( 'In', '__x__' ),
          trim( $categories_output, $separator )
        );
      } else {
        $categories_list = '';
      }
    } elseif ( get_post_type( get_the_ID() ) != 'post' ) {

      if ( has_term( '', 'video-cat', NULL ) ) {
        $categories        = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'video-cat' );
        $separator         = ', ';
        $categories_output = '';
        foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
          $categories_output .= '<a href="'
                              . get_term_link( $category->slug, 'video-cat' )
                              . '" title="'
                              . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;", '__x__' ), $category->name ) )
                              . '"> '
                              . $category->name
                              . '</a>'
                              . $separator;
        }

        $categories_list = sprintf( '<span>%1$s %2$s',
          __( 'In', '__x__' ),
          trim( $categories_output, $separator )
        );
      } else {
        $categories_list = '';
      }
    } else {
      $categories        = get_the_category();
      $separator         = ', ';
      $categories_output = '';
      foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
        $categories_output .= '<a href="'
                            . get_category_link( $category->term_id )
                            . '" title="'
                            . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;", '__x__' ), $category->name ) )
                            . '"> '
                            . $category->name
                            . '</a>'
                            . $separator;
      }

      $categories_list = sprintf( '<span>%1$s %2$s',
        __( 'In', '__x__' ),
        trim( $categories_output, $separator )
      );
    }

    //
    // Comments link.
    //

    if ( comments_open() ) {

      $title  = apply_filters( 'x_entry_meta_comments_title', get_the_title() );
      $link   = apply_filters( 'x_entry_meta_comments_link', get_comments_link() );
      $number = apply_filters( 'x_entry_meta_comments_number', get_comments_number() );

      if ( $number == 0 ) {
        $text = __( 'Leave a Comment' , '__x__' );
      } else if ( $number == 1 ) {
        $text = $number . ' ' . __( 'Comment' , '__x__' );
      } else {
        $text = $number . ' ' . __( 'Comments' , '__x__' );
      }

      $comments = sprintf( '<span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" class="meta-comments">%3$s</a></span>',
        esc_url( $link ),
        esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Leave a comment on: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;', '__x__' ), $title ) ),
        $text
      );

    } else {

      $comments = '';

    }

    //
    // Output.
    //

    if ( x_does_not_need_entry_meta() ) {
      return;
    } else {
      printf( '<p class="p-meta">%1$s%2$s%3$s%4$s</p>',
        $categories_list,
        $author,
        $date,
        $comments
      );
    }

  }
endif;

#2: To show author box above the posts on your author page, please add following in your child theme’s functions.php file:

// Show Author Box on Author Page
// =============================================================================

function add_author_meta() {
  if ( is_author() ) {
    $id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );
    echo do_shortcode('[author id="'.$id.'"]');
  }
}

add_action('x_before_view_global__index', 'add_author_meta');

Hope this helps. 🙂

Thank you.

Let us know if you need anything else.

Thanks. Have a great day! 🙂

Thanks for the information provided here. Can we load a custom author template here? x_get_view?

Not possible, because it’s part of functions.php but you can create another template and add it at /x-child/framework/views/global/

Let say you named it /x-child/framework/views/ethos/author-template.php and inside it should be this code :

<?php x_ethos_entry_meta() ?>

Or this code :

<?php $id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ); echo do_shortcode('[author id="'.$id.'"]'); ?>

Then you can call it as

x_get_view('ethos', 'author-template');

Hope this helps.