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How to redirect author page to a custom page?

March 23, 2023 at 8:10 am #9695

[anonymous]

I want to redirect the author page to a custom page on my website. I am using the Persona free theme, and my site is hosted on Netlify. I have already tried the “_redirects” method, but it didn’t work. Can anyone suggest another way to accomplish this?

March 23, 2023 at 12:51 pm #9697
[anonymous]
I use this trick: in the website field I put a post ID number. It’s not elegant but it works.
You need to edit the content of author.hbs
Between header and footer I put this:
```
   {{#if website}}
      {{#getPosts website "" ""}}
         {{{text}}}
      {{/getPosts}}
   {{else}}
      {{{description}}}
   {{/if}}
```
This shows the Post ID content instead of the author description.
March 23, 2023 at 5:52 pm #9700

[anonymous]

Could you share how you formatted your _redirect file? I made one for my Netlify hosted site recently, so I might be able to help.

April 20, 2023 at 7:54 pm #9843

[anonymous]

“You need to edit the content of author.hbs” I can’t find this 😐

April 22, 2023 at 6:31 am #9846

[anonymous]

In Publii: Click on the three vertical dots to the right of Publii, and select “App settings”. Scroll to “Files location” > “Sites location” and copy the folder path.

Open that folder in your file explorer, go to the folder named after your site, and head to “input” > “themes” > [theme name]. author.hbs should be there.

You may want to create a theme override.