Seperate template for custom post type author archive. WordPress code example

Let’s imagine that we have a new type of post – portfolio. A template will be used for these entries – archive.php. We can see a list of all these post on the page site.com/portfolio. But what if we want to connect a separate template for the author archive pages of the custom portfolio type?

The function below will help us with this:

//Template for custom post type author archive
function custom_template_include($template) { //This is a function declaration that takes the current template as an argument and returns the modified template.
    global $wp_query; //This is a global WordPress variable containing basic information about the current request. We use it to check some query conditions.

    
    if (is_author() && isset($wp_query->query_vars['author_name']) && $wp_query->query_vars['post_type'] == 'portfolio') {
        
        $template = locate_template('your-custom-template.php');

        
        if (empty($template)) {
            $template = get_template_directory() . '/single-portfolio.php';
        }
    }

    return $template;
}
add_filter('template_include', 'custom_template_include');

if (is_author() && isset($wp_query->query_vars[‘author_name’]) && $wp_query->query_vars[‘post_type’] == ‘portfolio’) – this condition checks whether the current query is a query for the author and matches whether he is your rule. In this case, the condition checks that the request is for an author and has an author_name parameter, and that the post_type is ‘portfolio‘.

$template = locate_template(‘your-custom-template.php’) – if the condition is true, this line replaces the current template with a custom template named ‘your-custom-template.php‘ using the locate_template() function. This custom template must be located in the active WordPress theme.