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1. sithicus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   <?php
   $author = the_author_email();
   ?>

   I want to store the_author_email into a varible.. so I can call it later in the page inside of some html.. the problem is when I do the above code it echo's the_author_email to the screen! ahhhuughh

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   thats because thats the authors email, not the author.

   the_author(); is the author.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author

3. sithicus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   so if I wanted to return "the_author" inside of a tag..

   <div class="<?php the_author(); ?>"> ?

4. Chanpory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The way to do it is to use the get_the_author tag.

   <?php $author = get_the_author(); ?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_author

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