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1. porkcharsui
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have read and understood http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

   All I want to do is put some information about the author on top of sidebar.php when a single entry is shown

   Setting up a page for authors is not a problem (using $curauth).
   However... how can I display this author information in the sidebar?

   Putting this in sidebar.php doesn't work:

   <?php if (is_single()) : ?>

   <h3>About the author</h3>
   <p><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?> wrote this</p>

   <?php endif; ?>

   As shown in The Codex, I called this before (still in sidebar.php):

   <?php if(get_query_var('author_name')) : $curauth = get_userdatabylogin(get_query_var('author_name')); else : $curauth = get_userdata(get_query_var('author')); endif; ?>

   Putting this into header.php doesn't work either.

   Any help?

2. jtpratt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   $curauth only works on author page, not in other places. You can only get author details in the sidebar that would work in single.php - read this tutorial: http://blog.themeforest.net/wordpress/wordpress-author-details/

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