Making A WordPress Author Page

The Author page or About page is very much common, where the site author displays his/her name, description, etc. To make an author page, just create an author.php, and upload it in your theme folder. The code is as follows:

<h1 class="h2">Posts by <?php echo $curauth->first_name; ?> <?php echo $curauth->last_name; ?></h1>


<p><?php echo $curauth->description; ?><br />

Website: <a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a></p>
<p><?php echo html_entity_decode(get_the_author_description()); ?></p>
<ul>

<!&ndash; The Loop &ndash;>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<li><?php the_time('m-d-y'); ?>:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

&raquo; <?php the_category('&');?>

<?php // the_excerpt(); ?>

</li>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p><?php _e('no posts by this author.'); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?> <!– End Loop –> </ul>

Then add this in top of your sidebar:

<?php /* if this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() || is_single() || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search() || is_404() || is_author() ) { ?>

and this in the sidebar to show links:

<ul> <?php wp_list_authors('show_fullname="1&optioncount=1′);" ?> </ul>

The author page descriptions come from the users' descriptions in the WordPress admin panel — although WordPress strips out any links they may post there. There are instructions in the WordPress forums about how to allow links in Author descriptions.

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