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[Loki]

I got what might be a stupid question , but since I can't seem to find the answer I'll bring it to you.....

Is there a way (plugin or handcode) to create "Author Bio Pages" for various authors of a blog?

For example, I'm running a mainstream blog, and there are three writers for the blog, I want to figure out the easiest way to have a page for each author with their photo and some bio info on them.

What's the best / quickest way to pull this off?

-Loki-

[2012]

just make a new page named after the author ? Under "Authors" category

[Jdoughs]

http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

There is plugins that do it but wordpress already supports author pages.

By default you should be able to go to www.domain.com/authors/vdc-loki/ and it should do almost what you want it to do on its own.

[Loki]

just make a new page named after the author ? Under "Authors" category

I could do that, (and might end having to) BUT I'm sort of a WP noob (when it comes to modding it out at least) and when I make a new page it AUTOMATICALLY throws a link in like 3 diff spots of my blog lol.

The prob I have with this one, is that would (possibly) give me 4 extra links all over the page, and I want to keep it clean as possible.

at best I'd like just ONE visible link that says: "Hell's Authors" and then that page shows you the three authors and you can click on each one to get to their own bio page.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

There is plugins that do it but wordpress already supports author pages.

By default you should be able to go to www.domain.com/authors/vdc-loki/ and it should do almost what you want it to do on its own.

I actually read that page, and honestly it's friggan greek to me lol, (I make the shit look good I'm not good at making it "work" )

Also I tried to link dir to each author and I just got 404's then I went to the actual blog itself and I looked at how the posts were shown.....

9 Aug 2009Make the world More Interesting (Volume Four) Author: Lucifer Jones | Filed under: Twitter Stuff

However neither AUTHOR: or LUCIFER JONES is an actual link, I checked the other author's post and same thing.... NONE of my posts are set to go to links.... which is really fine, 90% of the posts are written under Lucifer Jones and not the other two accounts lol.

For shit's and giggles this is the blog....

The Real Devil

It's been going for a few months now, and I'm JUST getting around to filling it up with "goodies" (up till a few days ago I was using the pre-installed theme that I modded the graphics on lol)

at any rate, that's where I'm at.... I just don't want to call my coder for this, cause so far so good for the coding retard that I am lol.

-Loki-

[Loki]

I THINK I might have solved the prob... lemme do a quick test and see if I can break this bitch or not lol

"Nested Pages" ?

-Loki-

[Ayla_SquareTurtle]

There's a plugin that allows you to choose which pages show up on the menus and which don't.

[Loki]

There's a plugin that allows you to choose which pages show up on the menus and which don't.

Well it turned out to be a template issue, and that just figured lol.

I cheated and got it to work the way I needed it to, so I'm back on track now, BUT now it's 6am and I need some friggan sleep lol

-Loki-

[fris]

serious business

[TheDoc]

Mine is simple enough, it grabs the author name, looks for an include so you can have a different author bio layout, pictures, fb/twitter links whatever on that. And the rest just spits out the posts by that author.

get_header(); if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
$curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
else : $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
endif; ?>
	<div class="post"><div id="post-archives">
	<?php include('./'.$curauth->nickname.'.php');?>
	<br />
	<h2>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->nickname; ?>:</h2>
     <ul>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>, <?php the_time('d M Y'); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
     <p><?php _e('No posts by this author.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
     </ul>
<?php get_footer();?>

[2012]

just copy and paste that right in there loki you're all set

[Loki]

I ended up getting what I needed, I just made a page and put in HTML for all the info I needed.....

http://therealdevil.com/hells-authors/ take a look if you'd like

Nothing else was going to do the job for me, cause the prob ended up being in the theme itself, and to fix that I'll have to wait for my coders to fix it, and I really only needed what I cheated and threw up ;)

-Loki-