Post entries by author and post format links

Hey Kyle,
Sorry for the late reply, when using the “link” post type they link to different pages with their headline. Please include an admin login in the Private Content area so we can see how you are adding the excerpts and investigate this issue.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Thanks for the login, I see that if you add the excerpt to the excerpt field the title doesn’t link correctly, but if the excerpt is in the post field the link is correct.
I can not recreate this on a new install, I see you have a plugin “Page Links To” perhaps this is related to it.
Please check your page now that I adjusted the excerpts.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for your feedback, indeed the post type “link” is not working as expected on the author archive page. In my tests with a clean install the post type “link” on the author archive page doesn’t link to the external link such as the category & tag archive pages, but it doesn’t matter where the excerpt is placed, in the excerpt field or in the post field.

So I’m not sure why on your install it seems to matter where the excerpt is placed, perhaps it is related to some of your other customizations, but I believe the first step is to get the “link” post type to work on the author page for a clean install and then see how the excerpts behave on your install.
I was not able to correct this so I submitted a request to the dev team to review. I will update this thread when the dev team replies. Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Unfortunately, the dev team says this is not a bug, but an expected result of how “get_the_excerpt()” removes links from the content, and changing this breaks other functions. Please see below for full notes.
How many “link” type posts do you plan on showing on your author page? I’m thinking if there is only a couple I may be able to write a script that will add the links, otherwise, this may require an author.php rewrite to achieve your goal.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Thank you, I checked your “news” category and found only one “link” type post, except for the two test posts.
So for the author page we will target post-entry-6313 and change the URL only on the author page with this script.
Please adjust the URL in the script to the one in the Private Content area.
Try adding this code to the end of your functions.php file in Appearance > Editor:

function custom_author_link_type_link(){
  ?>
  <script>
(function($){
  $(window).load(function(){
  $("#top.archive.author .post-entry-6313 h2.post-title.entry-title ").find("a[rel='bookmark']").attr("href", "https://www.google.com");
  });
  })(jQuery);
  </script>
<?php
}
add_action('wp_footer', 'custom_author_link_type_link');

This can be extended in the future if you add more link type posts.

Best regards,
Mike