WordPress:Template Tags/the author url

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 WordPress: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.