Comment author (members) link?

Hi wzshop,
To where we should link? If the user has not any post, the author page in 50% of themes shows “Sorry we didn’t find any content”. We think that would be not a good idea.

Managed to fix it with some custom coding. It is for a community WP site where every member automatically has a profile page. Might be cool to have this as an option…?

@wzshop, I personally use buddypress profile. You can use any profile plugin and link the comment author to that profile page.

It would be a great idea if you would make a WPDiscuz setting – so we can just set a custom author link in the comments section – eg /author/{display_name} or /anyslug/{user_id} etc..

To get the author archive to show users with no posts is very straightforward, just add this snippet to your author.php
$curauth = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author));

$curname = $curauth->display_name;
$firstname = $curauth->first_name;
$username = $curauth->username;
$id = $curauth->ID;

and build on the info, by checking if the user has posts or not.

You can do it using wpDiscuz ‘wpdiscuz_profile_url’ hook:

add_filter('wpdiscuz_profile_url', 'wpdiscuz_custom_profile_url', 10, 2);
function wpdiscuz_custom_profile_url($profile_url, $user) {
    if ($user) {
        //$user is current user object
    }
    return $profile_url;
}

Thanks! The hook is the best solution.