Author Page in WordPress
I was working on a site and wanted to create author pages for all registered wordpress user on the site. After looking at the documatation at http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates. I came up with this code. It will show the author info as well as last 5 post and last 5 comments. You can see the code in action at my author page.
you are a star, i’ve been looking for exactly this for 2 days!!
Glad I could help you out
Nice work! How do you link to your author page from comments you make?
You can edit your comments.php and add this for the author line:
<a href ="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?author=<?php echo $comment->user_id ?>"><?php echo $comment->comment_author?>
But if a user is not registered it will return ID=0. But the link will still be visible. You should add a IF ELSE to see if the user is registered or not.
<?php $theid = $comment->user_id; if ($theid == "0") { ?>
<?php echo $comment->comment_author?>
<?php } else { ?>
<a href ="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?author=<?php echo $comment->user_id ?>"><?php echo $comment->comment_author?>
<?php } ?>
Thanks a bunch – worked perfectly! And as an added bonus, it even made subscriber names link to the home page. SWEET!
How can I list the coments plus an excerpt of each comment? Is there a way?
Sure add comment_excerpt(); to the code in my author demo code. Just make sure it is inside the echo tag or you need to display the comment excerpt with <?php comment_excerpt(); ?>
Thanks you very much!!!
Damon, Great post and great code thanks! I have a question for you. When I drop this into my theme, I get a page that is just the bare information and is unstyled…how do I wrap my theme around the author.php to style it correctly?
You will have to copy the header and footer information from your theme's page template. Should look like <?php get_header(); ?> and possibly a div tag as well, depends on the theme you are using.
How can I list the coments plus an excerpt of each comment? Is there a way?
Hey, this is great. I have almost everything I need. Now I just need to figure out how to allow visitors to post comments directly on the author.php page. So far I am not finding anything at all. Can you point me in the right direction or refer me someplace that I can find that info?
What should I do with the code ?
Copy the file into /wp-content/plugins or copy it's content into a new wordpress page ? (after activating php in the site)
Hey Damon. Thanks for the code! Just a heads up. The line that displays biographical info of the author outputs a closing anchor tag "" . It doesn't validate due to that, but otherwise this is just what I was looking for.
Thanks!
comment_author_email='$curauth->user_email'
should be
user_id='$curauth->ID'
Because if a user changes his e-mail adres, all of the comments will be gone
(The ID doesn't ever change)
Damon,
Think you could help me out? I'd like to add this to my site, but oddly enough this is the first time I'm even glancing at my author page and wouldn't you know it, I don't have one…it doesn't load and I'm baffled. Could you e-mail me?
Damon,
Think you could help me out? I'd like to add this to my site, but oddly enough this is the first time I'm even glancing at my author page and wouldn't you know it, I don't have one…it doesn't load and I'm baffled. Could you e-mail me?
thank you man….its working to my blog….
Thanks. Worked Great on my site
You rock! Been trying to get an avatar to work with similar code for days. Thank you so much!