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Description

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

Usage

 <?php the_author_url(); ?> 

Example

Displays the author's URL as a link and the link text. 

<p>Author's web site: 
<a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>"><?php the_author_url(); ?></a></p>

Which displays as:

Author's web site: www.example.com

This example displays the author's name as a link to the author's web site. 

<?php if (get_the_author_url()) { ?><a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a><?php } else { the_author(); } ?>

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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