Title: author.php will not display
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# author.php will not display

 *  Resolved [bustherh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bustherh/)
 * (@bustherh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-will-not-display/)
 * I have been reading for the last 6 hours trying to figure this out.
    I need to
   display some custom fields on the authors profile page so I created author.php
   and it does not seem to work. I tried just about everything I came accross but
   it always displays archive.php instead of author.php. Correct me if I am wrong
   but from what I understand if author.php exists it is supposed to show when you
   go to a url like: [http://domain.com/?author=1](http://domain.com/?author=1)
 * someone please help, I am about to rip my hair out.

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 *  Thread Starter [bustherh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bustherh/)
 * (@bustherh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorphp-will-not-display/#post-1032590)
 * I am so tired. I am a huge dumbass. It would help if the author.php file was 
   in the right folder.

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 * [author.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author-php/)
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 * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/)

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