I'm using this code in my theme's author.php file:
<?php
$curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
?>
<h2><u>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->first_name . ' ' . $curauth->last_name; ?></u></h2>
<p>
<?php
echo '<table border=0>';
echo '<tr><td align=center>'; the_author_image($ID);
echo '</td><td valign="top">' . $curauth->description . '</td></tr>';
echo '</table>';
?>Usually this works great to display the author's name at the top of his or her index page along with the author bio. Here's an example:
http://www.challengeblog.org/author/todd/
However, this code doesn't seem to work for a new blogger, whose name and bio don't appear on this page:
http://www.challengeblog.org/author/mike-sullivan/
I've tried copying and pasting similar snippets from this page, but none of them work for Mike:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates
Any suggestions of why Mike is an exception, and what might work for him?
-Ken
