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1. jeeremie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, I want to use the_author_meta('description') in sidebar for to display information about the post author:

   <?php the_author_meta('description'); ?>

   I want to limit description to 50 characters only and place a link to the author's page if user want to read more about it.

   Google didn't return anything about that. Does anyone know how to do that?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Something like:

   $author_desc = get_the_author_meta('description');
   echo 'Description ' . substr($author_desc,0,50);
   
   $author_url = get_the_author_meta('user_url');
   echo 'URL ' . $author_url);

3. jeeremie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks. I will try that and let you know.

4. jeeremie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, I had time to check your code. That works for description but not for url

   your code get_the_author_meta('user_url'); returns the author website but I want to get the author page on the site. It should be something like http://domain.com/?author=1

   So far my code is :
   View <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>'s Profile &raquo;

   ... which returns the post author name with a link to his profile/author page (e.g. http://domain.com/?author=1)

   How should I proceed to retrieve only the url and remove the post author name? (I'd like to write "View Full Profile" and make it a link to the author page).

   Thanks for your time.

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