WordPress – Allowing comments on author pages

I need to be able to allow users to leave comments on author profile pages.

I came across another answer here that has given me a basic outline of what needs to be done to allow it: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8996/author-page-comments-and-ratings

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That said, I am unsure how to proceed with getting it implemented. I have created a custom post type to hold the comments, but I do not know how to make it so that each time a user/author signs up to our site (we are building a site with open registration), a post gets created in the custom post type to hold comments, and then automatically associated to their user profile.

Would much appreciate a more detailed answer than what was provided on the linked question, so that I am able to understand exactly how to get this up and running.

Many Thanks

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3 comments

  1. Actually you need to simply hook the Stuff with the user_register Action like

    function my_user_register($user_id){
    
        $user = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id );
    
        /**
         * if required you can limit this profile creation action to some limited 
         * roles only
         */
    
        /**
         * Created new Page under "user_profile_page" every time a new User 
         * is being created
         */
    
        $profile_page = wp_insert_post(array(
            'post_title'        => " $user->display_name Profile ", // Text only to Map those page @ admin
            'post_type'         => "user_profile_page", // Custom Post type which you have created 
            'post_status'       => 'publish',
            'post_author'       => $user_id,
        ));
    
        /**
         * Save the Profile Page id into the user meta
         */
        if(!is_wp_error($profile_page))
            add_user_meta($user_id,'user_profile_page',$profile_page,TRUE);
    }
    
    /**
     * Action which is being trigger Every time when a new User is being created
     */
    add_action('user_register','my_user_register');
    

    Above code is something which you are actually missing from the original post https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8996/author-page-comments-and-ratings So after adding the above code you simple need to follow that over the author.php same like that code

    $profile_page = get_the_author_meta('user_profile_page');
    
    global $post;
    $post = get_post($profile_page);
    
    setup_postdata( $post ); 
    
    //fool wordpress to think we are on a single post page
    $wp_query->is_single = true;
    //get comments
    comments_template();
    //reset wordpress to ture post
    $wp_query->is_single = false;
    
    wp_reset_query();
    
  2. You can hook a new filter to wp_insert_user function (if you’re using it to insert user on registration step) using insert_user_meta hook, so, after creating new user, this filter will be called on meta array before saving it. Here is the example code that might be helpful:

    <?php
    add_filter('insert_user_meta', 'nl_associate_cp_to_user', 10, 3);
    function nl_associate_cp_to_user($meta, $user, $update ){
        $meta['cpid_for_comments'] = nl_get_new_cpid_for_comments();
        return $meta;
    }
    
    function nl_get_new_cpid_for_comments(){
        $data = array(
            'post_type'    => 'CCPT',
            'post_title'    => 'Stub Post',
            'post_content'  => '',
            'post_status'   => 'publish',
            'post_author'   => 1,
        );
    
        $post_id = wp_insert_post( $data );
        if(!is_wp_error($post_id)) return $post_id; 
    }
    ?>
    
  3. You Can update your user-author.php file with the below code.

    <?php
               //save blog Id
                $blog_id = $post->ID;
               // now map your post with author post
                $author_post_id = get_user_meta($user_id, author_post_id,blog);
                query_posts("p=$author_post_id");
                the_post();
               //Your are in a single post page
               $wp_query->is_single = blog;
              //get comments
              comments_template();
              //reset wordpress to particular post
              $wp_query->is_single = false;
              query_posts("p=$blog_id");
             the_post();
        ?>
    

    You need to understand here we assume with blog id for the particular blog. please let me know if there are any other issue you are facing.

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