After setting up the author image code, I decided my next step in creating our new multi-author company blog would be linking the author name to the author’s profile page. I decided on a profile page rather than an email link to a). initially keep the reader drilling deeper into the blogsite for more information, and b). the profile page can then present offsite links to the author’s other blogs or website as well as an email link.
As Greg describes here, the code is simple enough
Posted by <a href=”<?PHP the_author_url(); ?>”>
<?php the_author() ?></a> <br>
But then I started scratching my head. Where the devil does the author URL come from? How does the system know what it is? Am I going to need to construct a database of author URLs? (People who know the answer are probably laughing out loud right now.)
I Googled frantically, and finally after reading and rereading this page in the WordPress Codex, the moment of epiphany came.
The author URL is the website address from the user profile page.
Click on Users in the upper right corner of the WordPress Dashboard. Click on the username, scroll down to the Contact Info section, and at Website, paste in the URL of the author’s about/profile page.
J Boyer Harding NJ says:
Keep them drilling down, When we do things like that on real estate websites, if you take the user through to many clicks before giving them what they are looking for, we lose them.
November 7, 2008 — 7:38 am
Heather Rankin says:
Cheryl – Not laughing here – you are way ahead of me. I am looking at the proposition of setting one of these up for the new Brokerage I just joined (now I have two – one in az and one in ut). I am saving all your blogs on this topic because it helps so much when the information comes from a user and not a developer (who apparently speak a entirely different language). Thanks!!
November 7, 2008 — 10:14 am