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Description

Displays the contents of the About yourself field in an author's Profile (Administration > Profile > Your Profile). About yourself is a block of text often used to publicly describe the user and can be quite long. This tag must be used within The Loop.

Usage

 <?php the_author_description(); ?> 

Example 

<p>Author's About yourself biography: <?php the_author_description(); ?></p>

Parameters

This tag does not accept any parameters.

Related

the_author, the_author_description, the_author_login, the_author_firstname, the_author_lastname, the_author_nickname, the_author_ID, the_author_email, the_author_url, the_author_link, the_author_icq, the_author_aim, the_author_yim, the_author_msn, the_author_posts, the_author_posts_link, list_authors, wp_list_authors

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