How to Create Author.php Page For Your Wordpress Blog

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If you have a multi author blog, then its good to give as much exposure to the post author as you can. One of the way to give exposure is to create an author.php page to display the author information. If you do not have author.php file in your Wordpress theme, then Wordpress looks for Archive.php file. Below is a simple tutorial to show the author’s name, website, email id and at last it will show all the posts. Before starting this tutorial I assume that you know basics about Wordpress and know how to use FTP client. You know how to install Wordpress themes. Lets start :

First open your archive.php page and create a duplicate file of it and rename it as author.php. You can use any FTP client to do it.

Now, open author.php file and paste the following code where you want to display name, website and contact info and bio.

Articles by <?php the_author(); ?>
Author Website: <?php the_author_url(); ?>
Author Email: <?php the_author_email(); ?>
Author Bio: <?php the_author_description(); ?>

Save your work and upload the file to your Themes folder located in wp-content. Now, someone will click on the post author name, author.php page will open giving all the information.

Note : Please note that author’s name, website and email id will be pulled from the information filled by the author in Wordpress profile option.

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