redirecting to author page in wordpress

Question

i need to redirect visitors who are coming from a certain url "http://www.example.com/wp-includes/qp2qp-sktcho/" tho their author page in wordpress "http://www.example.com/author/username" and i am using this code in one of the theme files

if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']){
  if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == "http://www.example.com/wp-includes/qp2qp-sktcho/" && is_user_logged_in()){
       $targetUrl = get_author_posts_url($user->user_nicename );
       wp_redirect( $targetUrl );
add_action('pre_get_posts','wh_post_display_order_view');
       exit;
   }
}

but instead of redirecting to "http://www.example.com/author/username" it makes the redirection to "http://www.example.com/author/"

do you know what is worng with the code? thanks

Ninja Ninja · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20T07:18:10

Try replacing get_author_posts_url($user->user_nicename ); with get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename' ) );

Please check dumping the function output with

var_dump();

to make sure if it is returning correct url. Later, then remove var_dump();

Please also check https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_author_posts_url

redirecting to author page in wordpress

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