Conditional on Author Page

  • hey everyone! Running into a block here and need some help. I’m trying to set up the author.php page in twenty twelve (in a child theme) to handle a conditional statement where when you click one of two buttons on posts, etc you either get the authors bio and posts or you get a contact form that goes directly to them.

    I have both the parts working and displaying on author.php but can not figure out how to condition the link from say the contributors page. I haven’t found any of the WP conditions that would work for such a thing.

    my apologies, my php is so-so but I do understand the set up of WP.

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  • Thread Starter scifizoe

    (@scifizoe)

    Here’s the full author.php file with the two blocks I want conditioned to only show when you click the correct link to this page.

    <?php
/**
 * The template for displaying Author Archive pages.
 *
 * Used to display archive-type pages for posts by an author.
 *
 * Learn more: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Boston_Financial
 * @since Boston Financial 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

	<section id="primary" class="site-content">
		<div id="content" role="main">

		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

			<?php
				/* Queue the first post, that way we know
				 * what author we're dealing with (if that is the case).
				 *
				 * We reset this later so we can run the loop
				 * properly with a call to rewind_posts().
				 */
				the_post();
			?>

			<header class="archive-header">
				<h1 class="archive-title"><?php printf( __( 'Author Archives: %s', 'bostonfinancial' ), '<span class="vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( "ID" ) ) ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( get_the_author() ) . '" rel="me">' . get_the_author() . '</a></span>' ); ?></h1>
			</header><!-- .archive-header -->

			<?php
				/* Since we called the_post() above, we need to
				 * rewind the loop back to the beginning that way
				 * we can run the loop properly, in full.
				 */
				rewind_posts();
			?>

			<?php bostonfinancial_content_nav( 'nav-above' ); ?>

			<?php
			// If a user has filled out their description, show a bio on their entries.
			if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) : ?>
			<div class="author-info">
				<div class="author-avatar">
					<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'bostonfinancial_author_bio_avatar_size', 60 ) ); ?>
				</div><!-- .author-avatar -->				

				<div class="author-link">
					<a class="btnMain" href="<?php echo esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ); ?>" rel="author">
						Contact <?php echo the_author_meta('first_name'); ?> »
					</a>

				</div><!-- .author-link	-->

				<div class="author-description">
					<h2><?php printf( __( 'About %s', 'bostonfinancial' ), get_the_author() ); ?></h2>
					<p><?php the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?></p>
				</div><!-- .author-description	-->
			</div><!-- .author-info -->
			<?php endif; ?>

			<!-- this only to show when clicking to contact author -->
			<?php echo do_shortcode("[contact-form-7 id='781' 'Contact Author']"); ?> 

			<!-- this only to show when clicking view articles or bio info -->
			<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
				<?php bostonfinancial_entry_meta(); ?>
				<h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
				<?php abyline_authordate(); ?>
				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

			<?php bostonfinancial_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>

		<?php else : ?>
			<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'none' ); ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</section><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
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