How to find Author Page link?

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  • June 12, 2015 at 8:11 pm #42416

    jack3
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    Hi there,

    It’s been a while since I’ve played with the author page… I am trying to figure out how the URL gets created for the author page. The only I currently have is:
    http://eatlocalnky.com/author/admin/?geodir_dashbord=true&stype=gd_place&list=favourite

    My issue is I’m trying to figure out how to create a link in my menu so any user can click on “My Favorites” and be taken to their favorite places.

    I found this plugin to create a shortcode in a menu: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-link-to-current-logged-in-authors-page

    I was trying to create a link with the short code mentioned there but the short code returns “jack3” (username) instead of “admin” (nickname) – being that my admin account is different I was trying to do it with a regular user account and I can’t seem to find the link that was created for that users favorite listing page.

    On my regular user page the link should be:
    http://eatlocalnky.com/author/ensorj1@nku.edu/?geodir_dashbord=true&stype=gd_place&list=favourite

    since the username and nickname are both the email address – but this doesn’t appear to work either.

    Any ideas on how your author page URL is created and how I can create a link to it?

    Thanks,

    Jack

    June 12, 2015 at 11:00 pm #42431

    Guust
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    The easiest way to accomplish that would be to install buddypress and the GD buddypress addon.
    More info here:
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/showing-the-current-users-listing-detail-in-their-dashboard/#post-41349

    June 13, 2015 at 5:12 pm #42482

    jack3
    Buyer
    Post count: 67

    Thanks Guust – I think the answer is this:

    http://yoursite/author/username/?geodir_dashbord=true&stype=gd_place

    but I’ve noticed that this isn’t true. I found a way to create the link dynamically with the username in the title – but it doesn’t work. So this link should work – but it doesn’t.

    http://eatlocalnky.com/author/ensorj1@nku.edu/?geodir_dashbord=true&stype=gd_place

    I wouldn’t mind Buddy Press because I like the idea of having users see friends favorite places, but I also don’t want a full-blown social network. I’m afraid they would get overwhelmed with the features and would stop using it.

    Thanks,

    JAck

    June 13, 2015 at 11:51 pm #42493

    Guust
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    You can turn everything off in buddypress (except extended profiles and account settings), then it is just creating an author/member page for all.

    June 15, 2015 at 5:19 pm #42582

    jack3
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    Thanks Gusst – I’m trying to get this to work. I don’t want users to see a “Listings” link as the majority of my users won’t have listings, I’ll be posting them all. But I want them to have a Favorites link. But when I remove the post type from the Buddy Press Geo Directory settings it also removes the Favorites link. Any idea on how to fix this?

    Thanks,

    Jack

    June 15, 2015 at 5:41 pm #42586

    Paolo
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    hi,

    there is no way to show favourites and not listings.

    The only way would be to show them both and hide the listings tab with CSS:

    

    #gdbuddypress-nav-listings-personal-li {
    display: none;
}
    

    Thanks
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

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    Thanks, that worked for now.
    

    How can I work link directly to the members page for each individual dynamically? I would like a link that says “My Favorites” and when a user clicks it they would be directed to their list of favorites, is this possible?
    

    Thanks,
    

    Jack
    

		
	
    


    

			
				

    

	
    

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    I got it thanks!
    

		
	
    


    

			
		
	
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