interesting stuff, so if i use kaf’s plugin, do i have to use his author template, too? or can i take his author template, make some changes to fit it to my themes look and then combinde it with a page just like done in codex archive index with archives.php? or can’t this be done without his plugin?
Actually don’t need the plugin–just presented it as a choice.
Okay, let’s suppose i work out such an author.php template that fits into my theme, how do i refer to it from my already existing page? do i need to get header, sidebars, footer in it too, if i refer from the page?
and second question is: i can use variables like user_icq and user_msn in my author template, but i don’t even have form fields for it in my user profile in the admin panel. how do i get those?
Review Pages and the page template section.
Those files aren’t populated any longer by the user’s profile.
<blocquote>The file may be named almost anything with a .php extension (see reserved Theme filenames for filenames you should not use; these are special file names WordPress reserves for specific purposes).
At least I have an idea, what to do now. But does this quote from the Codex mean, that i can’t name my newly created template file (which i want to use for my author Page) author.php, because this is a reserved name? My theme doesn’t have any author.php yet, so it shouldn’t be a problem to create one. Am I right?
I did not understand, what you meant in: “Those files aren’t populated any longer by the user’s profile.” My English is so bad. I know continents or cities can be populated by people. But files by user’s profiles? Can’t imagine that, sorry.
The file may be named almost anything with a .php extension (see reserved Theme filenames for filenames you should not use; these are special file names WordPress reserves for specific purposes).
At least I have an idea, what to do now. But does this quote from the Codex mean, that i can’t name my newly created template file (which i want to use for my author Page) author.php, because this is a reserved name? My theme doesn’t have any author.php yet, so it shouldn’t be a problem to create one. Am I right?
I did not understand, what you meant in: “Those files aren’t populated any longer by the user’s profile.” My English is so bad. I know continents or cities can be populated by people. But files by user’s profiles? Can’t imagine that, sorry.
