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Greetings. I’m stumped on the following question and can’t seem to find any postings to help.

I have a series of article authors and want to link their names at the top of each article to a profile of that author on a custom template within the site.

I assume the author’s name will be a path using that author’s ID. The path goes to a template with the default profile tags such as {bio} along with custom profile tags.

The path looks like this:

<a href="http://{path=site/member_profile/{author_id}}">{author}</a>

But the template only displays my profile, even though the article is assigned to someone else. Any suggestions?

Hey scottb,

Thank you for posting your question.

Can you show me all your code? Is this in a channel entries tag pair? If it is, the author_id should be correct and not your own.

This works perfectly for me.

{exp:channel:entries channel="blogs"}
 <a href="http://{path=member_profile/{author_id}}">{author}</a>  
{/exp:channel:entries}

What version of ExpressionEngine are you currently using?

Thank you,

Hi, Shane. The site is in 1.7 and the path is within the weblog:entries tags.

The landing page code is:

{exp:member:custom_profile_data}

<h1>{screen_name}</h1>
{custom_tag}
{bio}
{signature}

{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}

Hey there Scott,

Sorry about that. Did not realize you were on 1.X.

Please try the following.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blogs"}
 <a href="http://{path=member_profile/{author_id}}">{author}</a>  
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Cheers,

Shane, I should have been more clear. I do use exp:weblog:entries and not exp:channel:entries.

Hi scottb,

So you are saying that this block of code does not work?

Did you try it in a new template?

Cheers,

I figured it out, Shane. In the code, I should have put:

{exp:member:custom_profile_data member_id="{segment_3}”}

To capture the ID number in the path instead of just:

{exp:member:custom_profile_data}

Scott

Hi scottb,

Awesome! Glad you figured it out!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,