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Template Tags/the author link

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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's 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.

Change Log

Since: 2.1.0

Related

the_author, the_author_link, the_author_posts, the_author_posts_link, wp_list_authors, wp_dropdown_users, the_author_meta

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