Title: Author.php
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Author.php

 *  [rocked18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocked18/)
 * (@rocked18)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-5/)
 * Hi,
 * I am having issues setting up an author.php page in order to display user/author
   information. I ideally want each author to have thier own page with the info 
   linked from their user account.
 * the theme did not have author.php or even and archive.php so I have used the 
   following for author.php but its not working.
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * The template for displaying Archive pages.
        *
        * Used to display archive-type pages if nothing more specific matches a query.
        * For example, puts together date-based pages if no date.php file exists.
        *
        * Learn more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
        *
        * @package WordPress
        * @subpackage Twenty_Eleven
        * @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
        */
   
       get_header(); ?>
   
       	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
       <!-- This sets the $curauth variable -->
       <?php
       if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
       $curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
       else :
       $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
       endif;
       ?>
       <h3>About: <?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h3>
       <p><strong>Website:</strong> <a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a></p>
       <p><strong>Profile:</strong> <?php echo $curauth->user_description; ?></p>
       <h3>Posts by <?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?>:</h3>
       <ul>
       <!-- The Loop -->
       <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
       <li>
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>">
       <?php the_title(); ?></a>
       </li>
       <?php endwhile; else: ?>
       <p><?php _e('No posts by this author.'); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>
       <!-- End Loop -->
       </ul>
       </div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * You can see the issue here: [http://blog.blueventures.org/](http://blog.blueventures.org/)
   
   Click on any of the posted by names and it just loops you to the home page.
 * thanks

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