WordPress Author Page

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Does anyone know how to make it so when you click on an author in WordPress blog it goes to an author page with the author's bio and picture?
#website design #author #page #wordpress
  • Simple. Use a 301 Redirect. There's an awesome plugin for that. It's called Redirection by John Godley. Once you install the plugin, activate it.Go to the plugin's settings page. On the page, enter the Source URL and Target URL. For your situation, leave other fields with the default settings. Then, click the "Add Redirection" button. That's it. You're done.
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    • By default, the author's name in wordpress posts is linked to archives of posts written by the author. You can modify the author.php file and just show the bio and image of the author like this (copied from twenty ten theme):

      PHP Code:
      // If a user has filled out their description, show a bio on their entries.
      if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) : ?>
                          <div id="entry-author-info">
                              <div id="author-avatar">
                                  <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'twentyten_author_bio_avatar_size', 60 ) ); ?>
                              </div><!-- #author-avatar -->
                              <div id="author-description">
                                  <h2><?php printf( __( 'About %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ); ?></h2>
                                  <?php the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?>
                              </div><!-- #author-description    -->
                          </div><!-- #entry-author-info -->
      <?php endif; ?>
      If you don't have author.php in your theme file yet, create one and just reference the code from the wordpress' default theme. Feel free to PM me if you need further help.
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