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Display Author Link (URL Only, Without Authors Name)

Inside an 'About The Author' within the loop on single.php, I want to have a link like the following:

<a href="%AUTHOR-LINK-HERE%">View All Posts From This Author</a>

Basically a modified version of this WP function:

<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

But without having wordpress printing the 'href' and 'author name'. I only want it to return the URL of the author WHILE using the users default permalink structure defined in their WP settings.

Thanks,

Aaron | 08/31/10 at 3:00am | Edit

author, link, wordpress

(4) Possible Answers Submitted...

Last edited:
08/31/10
3:25am
Cosmin Popovici says:
```
<?php the_author_url(); ?>
```
or
```
<?php the_author_link(); ?>
```
EDIT

Ok, so MagoryNET got it right, with one small mod (you got a concatenation issue there mate :) ):
```
<?php 

global $user_ID;



$user_info = get_userdata($user_ID);



$current_link = get_author_posts_url($user_id,$user_info->display_name);

 ?>



<a href="<?php echo $current_link ?>">by username</a>
```
This generates
```
<a href="http://yoursite.com/author/username">by username</a>
```
Was that what you were after?

Previous versions of this answer: 08/31/10 at 3:18am | 08/31/10 at 3:25am
- 08/31/10 3:09am
  
  Aaron says:
  This displays the authors website url. I meant for it to output the url to the authors post page.
Last edited:
08/31/10
3:48am
Monster Coder says:
You can use:
```
get_the_author_link() 
```
Rather than printing, it will return you the LINK! So you will be able to use it as you like :).

Previous versions of this answer: 08/31/10 at 3:07am
- 08/31/10 3:10am
  
  Aaron says:
  This displays the authors website url. I meant for it to output the url to the authors post page.
- 08/31/10 3:19am
  
  Monster Coder says:
  ops!
  
  then you will need
```
get_author_posts_url()
```
  seems MagoryNET written well for that :)!
- 08/31/10 3:22am
  
  Monster Coder says:
  Inside the loops you can simply use it:
```
get_author_posts_url($post->post_author);
```
  that's it
- 08/31/10 3:28am
  
  Aaron says:
```
get_author_posts_url($post->post_author);
```
  Used inside of the loop, this makes the link to the current post (just tested).
- 08/31/10 3:42am
  
  Monster Coder says:
  is it? I have given you after testing. I got link like:
```
http://localhost/wordpress30/?author=1
```
  when I copied I got posts of this users!
  
  i have used it inside a function this way:
```
function func_name(){

global $post;

echo get_author_posts_url($post->post_author);

}
```
- 08/31/10 3:48am
  
  Aaron says:
```
function func_name() {

global $post;

echo get_author_posts_url($post->post_author);

}
```
  This works, thanks!
Last edited:
08/31/10
3:40am
MagoryNET says:
Add something like this:
```
<?php

global $user_ID;

$user_info = get_userdata($user_ID);

$current_link = get_author_posts_url($user_id,$user_info->user_nicename);

echo '<a href="'.$current_link.'">View All Posts From This Author</a>;

?>
```
PS. Corrected. It's basicly a version of the_author_posts_link modified to change the text in the link.

Previous versions of this answer: 08/31/10 at 3:07am | 08/31/10 at 3:38am | 08/31/10 at 3:38am | 08/31/10 at 3:40am
- 08/31/10 3:16am
  
  Aaron says:
  This displays the authors name, which I said I do NOT want...
- 08/31/10 3:20am
  
  MagoryNET says:
  It does not.
- 08/31/10 3:31am
  
  Aaron says:
  All this does is add the 'Display Name' of the author to the URL, which takes me to a 404 page, because it does not check to see what my permalink structure is.
- 08/31/10 3:38am
  
  MagoryNET says:
  I had a small error, I corrected know. There should be nicename not display_name in the get_author_posts_url.
- 08/31/10 3:43am
  
  Aaron says:
  This seems so close. The only issue I am having with this now, is that if I change my permalinks to the wordpress default, it is actually assigning an author id of '0' instead of my actual id which is '1'. Any ideas?
  
  This is the code I am using:
```
function view_author_posts() {

	global $user_ID;

	$user_info = get_userdata($user_ID);

	$current_link = get_author_posts_url($user_id,$user_info->user_nicename);

	echo $current_link;

}
```
```
<a href="<?php view_author_posts(); ?>">View All Posts From This Author</a>
```
- 08/31/10 3:45am
  
  MagoryNET says:
  Yeah, another mistake. user_ID is logged in user, not the author. Try this:
```
function view_author_posts() {



	global $authordata;

	$current_link = get_author_posts_url($user_id,authordata->user_nicename);

	echo $current_link;



}
```
- 08/31/10 3:46am
  
  MagoryNET says:
  I responded too fast. Another little fix:
```
function view_author_posts() {







	global $authordata;



	$current_link = get_author_posts_url($authordata->ID,authordata->user_nicename);



	echo $current_link;







}
```
Last edited:
08/31/10
3:24am
Nilesh shiragave says:
Yes MagoryNET right solution

Previous versions of this answer: 08/31/10 at 3:20am | 08/31/10 at 3:21am | 08/31/10 at 3:21am | 08/31/10 at 3:24am
- 08/31/10 3:25am
  
  Aaron says:
  WordPress.org - "Displays the link, where the default link text value is the user's Display name publicly as field."
  
  This function has no parameters. And therefore does not do what I am asking, because it outputs the entire a/link tag and anchor text, which I said above that I do NOT want.
  
  regards,