Custom fields to author box

  • Resolved mgnelsonhill

    (@mgnelsonhill)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi again-

    I’m trying to add custom contact info or html to my author box instead of a button as you describe the process here:

    I followed the first step of adding the following to the functions.php:

    
function my_epl_custom_user_contact( $contactmethods ) {

	$contactmethods['direct-line']	= __( 'Direct', 'easy-property-listings' );

	$contactmethods['main-line']	= __( 'Main', 'easy-property-listings' );

	return $contactmethods;

}

add_filter ('user_contactmethods','my_epl_custom_user_contact',10,1);

    Then in the widget-content-author-tall.php I added the following:

    <?php if ( $contactmethods->get_author_direct_line() != '' ) { ?>
					<span class="label-mobile"><?php _e('Direct', 'easy-property-listings' ); ?> </span>
					<span class="mobile"><?php echo $contactmethods->get_author_direct_line() ?></span>
				<?php } ?>

    after

    <?php if ( $epl_author->get_author_mobile() != '' ) { ?>
					<span class="label-mobile"><?php _e('Mobile', 'easy-property-listings' ); ?> </span>
					<span class="mobile"><?php echo $epl_author->get_author_mobile() ?></span>
				<?php } ?>

    I then check the page and everything below the code I inputted into the template is gone and so are my footers.

    Thanks again for your time!

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  • Plugin Author Merv Barrett

    (@mervb1)

    Hi there,

    You would have encountered a fatal error as you created a function that does not exists

    get_author_direct_line

    Instead use the built in WordPress function to retrieve your extra data

    $direct_line = get_the_author_meta( 'direct-line');

    then you can use 

    <?php if ( $direct_line != '' ) { ?>
	<span class="label-mobile"><?php _e('Direct', 'easy-property-listings' ); ?> </span>
	<span class="mobile"><?php echo $direct_line; ?></span>
<?php } ?>

    Consider contacting us via Support for additional assistance.

    Plugin Author Merv Barrett

    (@mervb1)

    Here is a similar example on adding a custom icon to the author box.

    How to add a custom link and icon to the author box

    Thread Starter mgnelsonhill

    (@mgnelsonhill)

    That’s great Merv- thank you so much!
    One problem I encountered, however, was with the secondary author- it seems that both author profiles display the same information from the custom fields- as in whatever content I put into the new fields under my profile now appears in everyone’s profile. Is there something else I would need to setup for the secondary author?

    Thanks again!

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