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Description

This tag displays a link to the Website for the author of a post. The Website field is set in the user's profile (Administration > Profile > Your Profile). The text for the link is the author's Profile Display name publicly as field. This tag must be used within The Loop.

Usage

 <?php the_author_link(); ?> 

Example

Displays the author's Website URL as a link and the text for the link is the author's Profile Display name publicly as field. In this example, the author Display Name is James Smith. 

<p>Written by: 
<?php the_author_link(); ?></p>

Which displays as:

Written by: James Smith

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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