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How To: Converting The Author Display To Link To The Author

By Kyle Eslick | Filed Under Hacks
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If you are setting up a WordPress blog to work with a variety of authors, it is probably a good idea to also set up the author display to actually be a link to the bloggers website.

For whatever reason, many themes are created to simply display the author’s name using text by default instead of converting it to a link to the author’s website. Fortunately, this is an easy change to make with a minimal amount of coding adjustments required.

Here is what you need to do. When editing your theme, you’ll want to look for the following code:

<?php the_author() ?>

Remove that code and replace it with the following:

<?php the_author_link(); ?>

Now test it out! It will automatically display a link to the author’s site, as specified in the users profile.

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Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.

There Are 3 Responses So Far »

  1. p@r@noid says:
    January 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Dude…where do we have to edit? :0

    Reply
    • Max says:
      November 28, 2010 at 6:13 am

      I really can`t find in loop.php and author.php this code: How can i remove for new code? I have the last version of WordPress.
      Please help me

      Reply
  2. Yael Sires says:
    January 4, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    I like it, this is exactly what I was looking for, hopefully there will be more of this on your site over time?

    Reply

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