Replace author url with different one (wordpress) - wordpress

Question

There are 3 authors in our company blog, each author has own site url in profile settings:
Mike - http://mike.com
Gelens - http://gelens.com
Admin - http://site.com/company/
the links for profiles are:
http://site.com/author/Mike/
http://site.com/author/Gelens/
http://site.com/author/Admin/
I need to replace a link to Admin's page, so, if there is <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> tag on some page, and the author is Admin, the link must be http://site.com/company/ instead of http://site.com/author/Admin/.
How can I do that?

Answer 1

It looks like the the_author_posts_link function just calls get_author_posts_url to get the link, which passes the link through the author_link filter before returning it. In your theme's functions.php, you could add something like this (untested):
add_filter( 'author_link', 'admin_author_link', 10, 3);
function admin_author_link($link, $author_id, $author_nicename) {
if( $author_id==1 ) {
$link = 'http://site.com/company/';
}
return $link;
}

Answer 2

I think the least heartburn would be wordpress > the_author_meta.
Have each user add their url in the wordpress user profile, as you have done. Then in your theme's functions.php use the_author_meta('user_url'). Remember this will echo the url. To use it as a variable use get_the_author_meta('user_url').
Here is how we did it with the twenty ten theme, this is in functions.php
function twentyten_posted_on() {
printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
sprintf( '<span class="entry-date">%3$s</span>',
get_permalink(),
esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
get_the_date()
),
sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
get_the_author_meta('user_url'), //changed from get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
sprintf( esc_attr__( 'About %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
get_the_author()
)
);
}

Answer 3

That's URL rewriting with .htaccess, which is possible by editing the .htaccess by hand.
But easier for a beginner with a plugin such as http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ which seems like it will do what you need.

Answer 4

You can do this using http rewrites.

Answer 5

I also needed author URL to a different page.
My site is on WordPress and I use oxygen.
I went to my blog page template where I entered the author which is selected dynamically.
there is an option to link the author's name to the archive page or the author's website.
I selected the author's website. Then went to the users on WordPress and went to the authors and added the page I wanted to actually go to as their website.