get_the_author_posts_link

Retrieves an HTML link to the author page of the current post's author.

Description

(string) get_the_author_posts_link(); 

Returns an HTML-formatted link using get_author_posts_url(…).

Returns (string)

An HTML link to the author page.

Usage

  1. if ( !function_exists( 'get_the_author_posts_link' ) ) { 
  2.     require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/author-template.php'; 
  3. } 
  4.  
  5.   
  6. // NOTICE! Understand what this does before running. 
  7. $result = get_the_author_posts_link(); 
  8.     

Defined (1)

The function is defined in the following location(s).

/wp-includes/author-template.php  
  1. function get_the_author_posts_link() { 
  2.     global $authordata; 
  3.     if ( ! is_object( $authordata ) ) { 
  4.         return; 
  5.     } 
  6.  
  7.     $link = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author">%3$s</a>',  
  8.         esc_url( get_author_posts_url( $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename ) ),  
  9.         /** translators: %s: author's display name */ 
  10.         esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Posts by %s' ), get_the_author() ) ),  
  12.  ); 
  13.  
  14.     /** 
  15.      * Filters the link to the author page of the author of the current post. 
  16.      * 
  17.      * @since 2.9.0 
  18.      * 
  19.      * @param string $link HTML link. 
  20.      */ 
  22. }