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Does someone know how to change format of the author link display? ie. Under Post Title i have meta fields where i display

May 8th, 2017 by Author_Nickname on Category &Views ≈ 0

Author_Nickname is as active link to all posts by this author. and this is ok. I am using the_author() function for this purpose. However when i click the link then Author_Nickname is being change to Author-email. i.e.

http://myweb.com/author/Author_Emailgmail-com/

[email protected] is author email. So email is being used. How to change the link to the following

http://myweb.com/author/Author_Nickname/

I dont want to display publicly author email only nickname. Thank you for your help

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  • This depends on the theme you are using, not on WP itself.
    – cjbj
    Commented May 8, 2017 at 15:42
  • It is probably because the username of the user is an email address. Wordpress uses for author permalinks the username field. You probably cannot change the username into a "normal" username and not an email?
    – Picard
    Commented May 8, 2017 at 20:48
  • yes, this is (was) the problem. done
    – Greg Skala
    Commented May 9, 2017 at 7:07

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Try this as

<?php echo get_the_author_link(); ?>

and see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_link

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  • No, this works wery well, i have this code <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> by <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')) ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a> on <span class="blog-meta-cat"><?php the_category(' | '); ?></span> The problem is that Wordpress display in web address email instead of Nickname as described above. Thanks
    – Greg Skala
    Commented May 8, 2017 at 14:14

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