slivehappy

great thanks .. can you please explain a little further? I looked at both .. but I am not sure how to do what you suggest .. thanks a million

would like to run a query based on the author_name but I don’t want to hard code the author_name

query_posts(‘author_name=Harriet’);

how to I modify the query so it grabs the variable from the url?

http://mysite.com/wp/author/bob = query_posts(‘author_name=bob’);

http://mysite.com/wp/author/sam = query_posts(‘author_name=sam’);

Here is a good tutorial on this
http://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutorials/add-thumbnails-to-wordpress-with-custom-fields/