If you are looking to create custom author pages then in this tutorials Developer Guidance tell you step by step how to create a custom author page wordpress without plugin using ftp or c panel. WordPress is mainly use for blogging purpose .Do you want to create author page of your multi-creator WordPress site? At that point you need to make a redid WordPress writers page to list authors, colleagues, supporters, or some other kind of members.
The default author page only shows the author’s post. You want to change the design of author page or add some more things like (Author NAME, BIO & other things) to your author page then join us i will tell you step by step.
How to Create custom author pages for posts
- Step 1:- First login ftp or cpanel.
- Step 2:- Go to /wp-content/themes/your-current-theme/ folder.
- Step 3:- Inside your current theme create a file name author.php file. or if already have then edit author.php file.
- Step 4:- Include header and footer or sidebar by below code.
<?php get_header(); ?>, <?php get_footer(); ?> , <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Include below code to your author.php file at the top of your file or after include header
Below code should be under php syntax like <?php —— below code—— ?>. Below code show all the details of current author.
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// Set the Current Author Variable $currentauthor $currentauthor = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author)); |
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{{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:0}} ///// ADD YOUR CODE/// //In my case <div class="col-md-6 yes_1"> <div class="series-container"> <div class="news-post image-post"> <div class="post-gallery"> <a href="<?=the_permalink()?>"><img src="<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail_url(); ?>" alt="<?=the_title()?>" /></a> <div class="hover-box"> <div class="inner-hover"> <div class="image-post-title"><a class="truncate-lines" data-truncate-lines="2" href="<?=the_permalink()?>">{{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:5}}</a></div> <ul class="post-tags"> <li><i class="fa fa-user"></i><a href="<?php echo site_url();?>/author/<?php the_author_meta('user_login') ?>">{{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:8}}</a></li><li><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>{{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:9}}</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:10}} <p>{{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:11}}</p> {{urvanov-syntax-highlighter-internal:12}} |
Above code help to how to create a custom author page wordpress without plugin. Please follow Developer Guidance for futher update.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_login’ ); ?> – Displays the authors login name.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_pass’ ); ?> – Displays the authors password in hexadecimal form
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_nicename’ ); ?> – Displays the authors nicename (same as their login)
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_email’ ); ?> – Displays the authors email address.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_url’ ); ?> – Displays the authors URL.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_registered’ ); ?> – Displays the date the author registered with your site.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_activation_key’ ); ?> – Displays the authors activation key (if applicable).
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_status’ ); ?> – Displays the authors user status e.g. user who has confirmed account has a user status of 2.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘display_name’ ); ?> – Displays the name the author has chosen to display publicly.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘nickname’ ); ?> – Displays the authors nickname.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘first_name’ ); ?> – Displays the authors first name.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘last_name’ ); ?> – Displays the authors last name.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘description’ ); ?> – Displays the authors bio.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘jabber’ ); ?> – Displays the authors Jabber / Google Talk contact info.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘aim’ ); ?> – Displays the authors AIM contact info.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘yim’ ); ?> – Displays the authors Yahoo messenger contact info.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_level’ ); ?> – Displays the authors user level (e.g. admin are level 10, subscribers are level 0).
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_firstname’ ); ?> – Displays the authors first name.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_lastname’ ); ?> – Displays the authors last name.
- <?php the_author_meta( ‘user_description’ ); ?> – Displays the authors bio.
