Title: author.php and permalinks problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# author.php and permalinks problem

 *  [tkm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkm/)
 * (@tkm)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-and-permalinks-problem/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a link to an author page (author.php) on my website. The author page is
   called using the_author_posts_link(). The link to the author page works fine 
   when the permalink settings are on the Default option. However, when I attempt
   to use a custom structure (e.g. /%postname%/) the link no longer directs a user
   to the author page, but instead it provides a list of all posts written by the
   author.
 * Any help to resolve this would be much appreciated!
 * Thanks in advance,
    tkm

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 *  Thread Starter [tkm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkm/)
 * (@tkm)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-and-permalinks-problem/#post-1149252)
 * Any ideas anybody??
 *  Thread Starter [tkm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkm/)
 * (@tkm)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-and-permalinks-problem/#post-1149322)
 * Ok I take it that nobody really knows what I’m talking about.As a workaround 
   does anyboyd know how to link to an author page (i.e. a bio and picutre etc) 
   without using the the_author_posts_link() function? Is there a bit of php code??
 * Please help!!
 *  Thread Starter [tkm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkm/)
 * (@tkm)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-and-permalinks-problem/#post-1149364)
 * Resolved! With a lot of digging around my website, I’ve finally managed to make
   this work. Turns out that the guys who had built my website initially, weren’t
   linking to an author page as specified by WordPress but instead built a custom
   page called authors.php and that was situated in the home directory. Annoying.
 * So when I switched to permalinks it was looking for an author.php in the themes
   folder. I created an author.php page correctly and placed it in the themes folder
   and voila! Check it out at [http://www.freelancestudents.co.uk](http://www.freelancestudents.co.uk).
 * Cheers,
    tkm

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## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)
 * [problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/problem/)
 * [the_author_posts_link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_author_posts_link/)

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 * Last reply from: [tkm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkm/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-and-permalinks-problem/#post-1149364)
 * Status: not resolved

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