[creativepart]

I couldn't get the Author links working the way the Mod Author laid it out in his Readme. But, using his concept I found a way to change the Author links to link to their VB Profile, but it only applies to users that use VBSEO to rewrite member profile links to: username.html.

Here's what I did:

NOTE: since I'm running VBSEO this method applies to VBSEO users. VBSEO rewrites the member profile links on the fly. So instead of www.yourdomain/forum/members.php?u=1075 being a link to a member's profile VBSEO changes it to: www.yourdoamin/forum/members/username.html.

So, here's what I did. First I went to the various post and page php pages in my WP Style and changed the coding that said:

<p>Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on

I changed it to:

<p>Posted by <a href='http://www.mydomain.com/forum/members/<?php the_author(); ?>.html'> <?php the_author(); ?></a> on

See the original coding in the template called "the_author_posts_link" and I've changed that to "the_author" which gives you the author's username from VB. Then you can see in my new code above that I use the "the_author" php to insert the username into the manually coded link.

If you're not using VBSEO, you'll need to find a way make the Mod Author's instructions work to pick up the member number and use that to create a userID generated link. I just couldn't get his instructions to work for me.

Again, I realize this shouldn't be necessary to do this way, but hey, it works. So I thought I'd pass it on.

Alternatively, if you can't get this to work -- a fall back workaround idea is to change "the_author_post_link" to "the_author" and you'll keep the username but lose the broken link.