How to change post info author links to my Gplus with vcard?

[ictiempo]

Hi,

I just change my theme to Genesis but I found it hard to change the author links to my google plus with vcard. Any help will be appreciated.

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[Brad Dalton]

Hi

Generally, the author link goes to a page with posts from the author, not an external link however it can be done.

If you're up for coding, you can copy one of the functions from Genesis and modify or filter it.

Note : Happy to point you in the right direction however this code modification and testing would take some time and is not covered here today.

add_shortcode( 'post_author_link', 'genesis_post_author_link_shortcode' );
/**
 * Produces the author of the post (link to author URL).
 *
 * Supported shortcode attributes are:
 *   after (output after link, default is empty string),
 *   before (output before link, default is empty string).
 *
 * Output passes through genesis_post_author_link_shortcode filter before returning.
 *
 * @since 1.1.0
 *
 * @param array|string $atts Shortcode attributes. Empty string if no attributes.
 * @return string Return empty string if post type does not support author or post has no author assigned.
 *                Return genesis_post_author_shortcode() if author has no URL.
 *                Otherwise, output for post_author_link shortcode.
 */
function genesis_post_author_link_shortcode( $atts ) {

	if ( ! post_type_supports( get_post_type(), 'author' ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	$url = get_the_author_meta( 'url' );

	// If no URL, use post author shortcode function.
	if ( ! $url ) {
		return genesis_post_author_shortcode( $atts );
	}

	$author = get_the_author();

	if ( ! $author ) {
		return '';
	}

	$defaults = array(
		'after'    => '',
		'before'   => '',
	);

	$atts = shortcode_atts( $defaults, $atts, 'post_author_link' );

	if ( genesis_html5() ) {
		$output  = sprintf( '<span %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-author' ) );
		$output .= $atts['before'];
		$output .= sprintf( '', $url, genesis_attr( 'entry-author-link' ) );
		$output .= sprintf( '<span %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-author-name' ) );
		$output .= esc_html( $author );
		$output .= '</span>' . $atts['after'] . '</span>';
	} else {
		$link = '' . esc_html( $author ) . '';
		$output = sprintf( '<span class="author vcard">%2$s<span class="fn">%1$s</span>%3$s</span>', $link, $atts['before'], $atts['after'] );
	}

	return apply_filters( 'genesis_post_author_link_shortcode', $output, $atts );

}

add_shortcode( 'post_author_posts_link', 'genesis_post_author_posts_link_shortcode' );
/**
 * Produces the author of the post (link to author archive).
 *
 * Supported shortcode attributes are:
 *   after (output after link, default is empty string),
 *   before (output before link, default is empty string).
 *
 * Output passes through genesis_post_author_posts_link_shortcode filter before returning.
 *
 * @since 1.1.0
 *
 * @param array|string $atts Shortcode attributes. Empty string if no attributes.
 * @return string Return empty string if post type does not support author or post has no author assigned.
 *                Otherwise, output for post_author_posts_link shortcode.
 */
function genesis_post_author_posts_link_shortcode( $atts ) {

	if ( ! post_type_supports( get_post_type(), 'author' ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	$author = get_the_author();

	if ( ! $author ) {
		return '';
	}

	$defaults = array(
		'after'  => '',
		'before' => '',
	);

	$atts = shortcode_atts( $defaults, $atts, 'post_author_posts_link' );

	$url = get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) );

	if ( genesis_html5() ) {
		$output  = sprintf( '<span %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-author' ) );
		$output .= $atts['before'];
		$output .= sprintf( '', $url, genesis_attr( 'entry-author-link' ) );
		$output .= sprintf( '<span %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-author-name' ) );
		$output .= esc_html( $author );
		$output .= '</span>' . $atts['after'] . '</span>';
	} else {
		$link   = sprintf( '%s', esc_url( $url ), esc_html( $author ) );
		$output = sprintf( '<span class="author vcard">%2$s<span class="fn">%1$s</span>%3$s</span>', $link, $atts['before'], $atts['after'] );
	}

	return apply_filters( 'genesis_post_author_posts_link_shortcode', $output, $atts );

}

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