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1. pottypotsworth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I an author box at the end of each post with info about the author, standard stuff, name, email, little bio pic. This all works perfectly.

   What i am now trying to achieve is to have this author information at the top of the archive page when users are viewing 'all posts by author'.

   I am using a conditional tag to check to see if we are on the author archive and this works great, however none of the author information is being displayed, even though i know the tags are correct.

   You can see what i am doing here... http://dev.shout4music.com/author/ash/ the author box at the top doesn't show any information, now I think this is the case because it isn't actually pulling the info from the DB until the post loop.

   Could anyone advise me on how i can grab that info before the post loop so the author info can be shown at the top of the page?

   Thanks

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Found this in my notes to go in an author template:
   

   <?php
       if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
           $curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
       else :
           $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
       endif;
       ?>
   
       <h2>About: <?php echo $curauth->nickname; ?></h2>
       <dl>
           <dt>Website</dt>
           <dd><a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a></dd>
           <dt>Profile</dt>
           <dd><?php echo $curauth->user_description; ?></dd>
       </dl>
   
       <h2>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->nickname; ?>:</h2>

   Related:
   Author_Templates

3. pottypotsworth
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Worked perfectly, thanks so much :o)

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