WordPress Hacks » Authors http://wphacks.com WordPress Themes, Plugins, Hacks, Tutorials, and more! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:20:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How To: Converting The Author Display To Link To The Author http://wphacks.com/how-to-converting-the-author-display-to-link-to-the-author/ http://wphacks.com/how-to-converting-the-author-display-to-link-to-the-author/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:00:20 +0000 Kyle Eslick http://wphacks.com/how-to-converting-the-author-display-to-link-to-the-author/ 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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