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1. pickled
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   In single.php I'm linking to my authors page like this:

   <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/author/<?php the_author_firstname(); ?>">

   Which generates a link to this page:

   http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/author/Mike

   BUT when the sidebar links to the same page, it links to:

   http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/author/mike

   Any ideas how to fix that? I'd prefer they both link to lower case, but either case is ok as long as its the same.

   Thanks!

2. DianeV
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Look in your style.css, in the sidebar area. It's possible that there's a style there that says:

   text-transform: lowercase

   Just take that part out.

3. pickled
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks but, it's not the viewing of the url, its the actual url being generated - one is lower one is upper.

4. DianeV
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry I misread your post.

   That's odd. Right now, I haven't got a clue.

5. pickled
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   its something to do with how list_authors displays the name vs. the_author_firstname

   ..but I can't figure out what...grr. anyone know? or anyone know how I can do this any other way *but link to the exact same url*?

6. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try changing this...
   <?php the_author_firstname(); ?>
   into...
   <?php strtolower(the_author_firstname()); ?>

   It's not exactly a nice way... more like a workaround which doesn't deal with the origin of your problem, but it should be good enough for now ;).

7. pickled
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks Sivar, but that didn't work...man I was hoping that would solve it too :(

8. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Why didn't that work? What's the output? Maybe you can try something like...
   

   <?php $firstname = get_the_author_firstname();
   $firstname = strtolower($firstname); ?>

   ... and when it comes to outputting...
   `<?php echo $firstname; ?>

9. pickled
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   this works, thanks a lot!

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