Author page in Wordpress

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In case you have a common blog, where more that 1 person it's writing, then you should have an author page, where there will be listed information about the author, nickname, website url, bio and also latest 5 posts about the author. This is used also as a reward for the other authors that are writing in your blog as a sign of appreciation of their work.

So let's start with the implementation. Search on your template the file archives.php file and name it author.php, then upload it to your site via FTP. Now you have to edit the file author.php that you have just created. A normal archive page is calling the header, sidebar and footer. We need to alter the section in between. Here is the code you need to insert:

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<!-- This sets the $curauth variable -->
<?php
if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
$curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
else :
$curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
endif;
?>
<h3>About: <?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h3>
<p><strong>Website:</strong> <a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a></p>
<p><strong>Profile:</strong> <?php echo $curauth->user_description; ?></p>
<h3>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?>:</h3>
<ul>
<!-- The Loop -->
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('No posts by this author.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<!-- End Loop -->
</ul>
</div>

This will display the author’s nickname, their website, and whatever is in the description field, as well as a bulleted list of all their posts. Once set up, you can control everything from within your Users panel of your WordPress dashboard.

If you want your authors name link to point towards the authors page, you can do so with the following code:

<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>