code help

Hi. I am using this code in my free theme to show author link for a custom header. How do I change the author link so that instead of pointing to author pages when clicked, it instead takes the user to a custom author page like

example.com/author-page

?

<span class="entry-author">
                <?php 
                 if (! has_category( array( 5 ) ) ) {
     the_post(); // queue first post
     	echo apply_filters( 'generate_post_author_output', sprintf( '<span class="byline">%1$s</span> ', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
				sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" %5$s>%1$s <a class="url fn n" href="%2$s" title="%3$s" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%4$s</span></a></span>',
					__( 'by', 'generatepress' ),
					esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
					/* translators: 1: Author name */
					esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
					esc_html( get_the_author() ),
					generate_get_microdata( 'post-author' )
				)
			) );
       rewind_posts(); // rewind the loop
                 }
       ?>
                </span>

Solved. Replaced href="%2$s" with the author page URL.