The author tag has no wiki summary.
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Show only oldest post by author
I am working with a heavily customized install of WP. I've set up a specific post type, taxonomy, and roles that gets to use just that post type.
Ideally, I'd like to restrict members of that role ...
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Change the Author Slug from Username to Nickname
Hi to the community,
is it possible to change the default username slug to nickname if is available?
By default the url is something like: http://domain.tld/author/(admin) ,
is it possible to ...
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Help to condense/optimize some working code
WordPress by default shows ALL posts to users who are Authors. I wanted Authors to only be able to see their own posts so I came up with the following code which works well.
Any suggestions to ...
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How to set up sub-categories for author pages?
I am setting up Wordpress for a school. They want to enable teachers to have their own section of the site where they can create posts in different categories (assignments, events, etc).
I know that ...
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Adding %author% in custom post type URL structure?
I'm trying to do some WordPress URL rewriting ...
Specifically I have custom post type that currently works like this:
http://mydomain.com/videos/post-title/
But I would like to have it located at:
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Author url rewrite
The default author permalink is:
http://domain.com/author/{username}
How can I do something like this ?
http://domain.com/author/{username}/songs
http://domain.com/author/{username}/books
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How to check if a user (not current user) is logged in?
I need to display the online status (online/offline) for each author page (custom author page template).
is_user_logged_in() only applies to the current user and I can't find a relevant approach ...
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How can HTML be allowed in Author Bio?
Is there a way to prevent WP from stripping the HTML from the author bio? I need it to keep my paragraphs.
Thanks in advance! :)
Edit - Although this question has been answered, I will clarify that ...
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How to add author details in the post sidebar?
I would like to add author details in the sidebar instead of bottom of the post?
Can anyone tell me how to do that?
As of now i'm using like this in the loop
<?php $curauthor = ...
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Different permalink for posts and authors
I tried to avoid ask this question, because I think that must be simple, but after long hours trying to get an answer I cant achieve it.
I am trying to get a permalink structure like this:
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Display Author role in archive or author page
I want to display author role on archive and author page outside loop I found this code on stack overflow and it works fine within the loop
function get_author_role()
{
global $authordata;
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Authors list Pagination?
WordPress has a built in function to display a list of all of your site’s authors. But there is no option to display their avatars, so all you really get is a text list that links to the author’s ...
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Find most recent authors
What I'm looking to do it get the 16 latest posts from 16 different authors. In other words there would be the 16 latest posts, but no one single author would have more that 1 post on the page.
The ...
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How to use tinyMCE for user “biographical info”?
I would like to provide our WP users (authors) with a tinyMCE editor instead of standard textarea for their "Biographical Info" on the Profile page.
I have spent a lot of time searching online for ...
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More posts from the current author
On a multi author WordPress blog I need to show a list with more posts from the current author. The list is inside the Loop, so I can use <?php the_author_meta('first_name'); ?> <?php ...
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Authors Page : A page of authors
I'm looking for a way to create a parent authors page and then use the author.php for the individual author pages.
I've been out of the loop (no pun) for a couple months and am wondering the best way ...
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Prevent Authors from viewing each others Posts
I am setting up a site where there will be multiple users as Author, the owner doesn't want the authors to be able to view each others posts, since there are some meta fields with information he'd ...
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How to set author for post AND post attachments
I have multiple author accounts on one of my WordPress installs. Often I will create a post, and set the author to be a different account. However, when I upload images into that post, their ...
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Change author permalink
The original urls for users look like /author/login/
Is it possible to replace login by user's id?
In my dream urls should become to /users/34/ (34 is user id).
Thanks.
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the_author_posts_link() for authors of custom post types
I have both regular blog posts and a custom post type in a blog. The page template shows the author posts link. If you click on that link for an author that has authored some posts, that page ...
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Woocommerce: assign an “author” to a product
I'm developing my first theme for woocommerce.
I need to be able to have "authors" (really "designers") assigned to woocommerce products. Is that feasible? I was thinking of using the wordpress ...
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Possible to search by author name with default WordPress search function?
I realize improving WordPress's search function is a huge can of worms, but the ONLY additional thing I need it to do is to show results when I search for an author's name.
For example, if we have an ...
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Including post_type = 'wiki' in author archives
For a user with wiki-update permission only, I want to list their wiki articles in the author archive page. Currently, it comes back with "NOT FOUND Apologies, but ...".
I am using the Twenty-ten ...
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List authors of site with link and gravatar
I'm trying to do something I assumed would be easy. I assumed wrong. What I want to do is list all the authors of a site on the sidebar, with a link to their respective author page, number of posts ...
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pagination in author.php template returns 404 error
Hi to the community!!!
I need some help with pagination in author.php template.
I have pagination working in all my loops except in authors.php that i get a 404 error.
In my settings/reading i have ...
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how can I set the post author of a post I just created with php?
I'm using php to dynamically create a custom post, and I need the author to be someone other than the logged in user. I found this ...
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How can I publish a post with two or more authors?
A friend and I have a Wordpress blog and we want to be able to publish a post with more than one author. How can I do this?
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Extend WordPress search to include user search
There is many a WordPress plugin out there that enhances WordPress search but I have yet to find a plugin that will add user search.
Search Everything used to have the functionality but was removed ...
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Is there a way to prevent author change when editor/administrator edits a post?
As an administrator when I change or edit a post of an author (for example add a category through quick edit) the author of the post changes. We do not want this to happen. Is there a way to prevent ...
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Author can only see own post comment and can moderate
I am trying to make things work like where author can see only them post comment in admin comment section and they can moderate as well. While admin should have all permission.
I am having one code ...
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Display the number of user comments
I would like to display, on the author/user/contributor page, the number of comments the user has posted, and the number of comments he has received on his posts. Is it possible?
Thank you !
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Recent comments on author page?
I'm creating an author.php page and I'd like to show comments as well as posts from a custom post type. I already have the list of posts but I'm looking into an efficient way of displaying the most ...
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Show the title of the latest post by author
I have the following function which I use to show the author name,author avatar and the author biography in a div. I need to show the title of the latest post by the author along with this. Can anyone ...
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How we can get the author ID by its Name
How can i retrieve the author id if i have its name.
I have fornt end form any user can enter the author name to filter the posts by author name so after that how can i get author id. Or there is any ...
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How to make a relationship between books and authors?
I have a book category, but now I would like each book could be concatenated with the author profile page. And the tab for the author to show, in addition to text, the list of books he has written.
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get_the_author_meta not working
So I have this website that I am building and I am using get_the_author_meta to display various information about the user / author including user image.
I added a function in my functions.php which ...
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Removing the base “Author” or changing it to something else. is it possible?
Is it possible to remove the AUTHOR base?
Is it possible change it to postedBy so that the urls is site.com/postedBy/joe
And finally, is it possible to remove a custom taxonomy base from the url so ...
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Show author archive pages for authors with no posts
I have one page for each author, but if the author doesn't have any posts I can't get its variables, because the loop is empty.
The page returns empty, no avatar, no info and stuff, the whole site is ...
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Guest author's post not display in author template
I am using this filter to display guest author on post, but i want guest author's posts to appear in the author.php template also.
This is my guest author code (inside functions.php).
<?php
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