How to get the author’s name to link to author’s website in Wordpress

There are different types of wordpress themes. Some themes may display the author’s name for the post on the index page of your blog but may not provide a link to the author’s website. There is a very easy fix for that and that is really where the power of wordpress as an amazing blogging platform comes into play.

All you need to do is go to the theme editor in your wordpress blog admin panel. Search for the text

  1. <?php the_author() ?>

in the main index template (index.php file) and replace it with

  1. <?php the_author_link() ?>

It is that simple.

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  2. I thought you can change this standard in the Wordpress Blog’s settings or setup.

  3. Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more?

  4. Andy says:

    Thank you! I found this very useful :) It did exactly what I was looking for.

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