Title: Profiles?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Profiles?

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/)
 * Hi, I don’t know if this is the right forum but I was wondering if there was 
   a way to display profiles for the contributors.
    Or a way to display posts by
   contributor rather than by category. Thanks for any help 🙂

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/#post-81950)
 * There was a hack (wp-people : [http://www.dean-logan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6](http://www.dean-logan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6))
   for something like the bio / profile, but I’ve not seen that updated for ages.
   It may not work with 1.2mingus
    And posts by author ? Not yet seen …. it has 
   been requested though several times, so it could be coming soon I guess.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/#post-82018)
 * Hi again,
    What I actually meant was for the authors… Instead of having: Filed
   under: Blah �? Author @ 2:35 pm To have the same but with the Author made into
   a link to the profile of said author. A bit like the thing that happens on a 
   community LiveJournal. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/#post-82143)
 * You can substitute the author’s name here with the the_author_posts_link(); function
   to display a page that contains all the posts by a specific user, from that page,
   extra customatization can be done on that page by inserting author information
   after if ($author)…
    <pre> if ($author) { echo(‘ <div class=”post”> <div class
   =”storytitle”>’.”\n”); echo(‘<img class=”right” src=”images/’.$author.’.jpg” /
   >’); get_author_bio($id=$author); echo(‘ <div style=”clear:both;”></div> ‘); 
   echo(‘</div> ‘); } </pre> For our multi-author site we used a function to display
   a picture and the bio entered by each author in the “User Information” page. 
   <pre> // Show an author’s information outside the loop function get_author_bio(
   $id) { global $wpdb, $id,$authordata; $query = “SELECT ID, user_nickname, user_firstname,
   user_lastname, user_nicename, user_description, user_url, user_email from $wpdb-
   >users ” . “WHERE ID=$id ORDER BY user_nickname”; $authors = $wpdb->get_results(
   $query); foreach($authors as $author) { if ($author->user_url) { echo ‘ <h3>user_url.'”
   >’; echo $author->user_nickname.’</h3> ‘; } else { echo ‘ <h3>’.$author->user_email.'
   </h3> ‘; } echo ‘ <div class=”author”>�’.$author->user_description.'</div> ‘;}}
   </pre> Check out [cnwp](http://weciti.com/cnwp/index.php/archives/2004/07/21/66)
   for a screenshot of that site.
 *  [sasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasha/)
 * (@sasha)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/#post-82334)
 * Since I’m new to PHP and CSS, I didn’t understand a word you said. Here’s an 
   easier version that may help some people (also posted in its own thread and to
   the wiki)
 * This takes that “posted by authorname” text on your blog page and changes the
   authorname to a link. When you click the link it lists all the posts by that 
   author.
 * In your index.php, change
 * <div class=”meta”><?php _e(“Filed under:”); ?> <?php the_category() ?> â€�?
    
   <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></div>
 * To
 * <div class=”meta”><?php _e(“Filed under:”); ?> <?php the_category() ?> â€�?
    
   <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link();?
   ></div>
 * The only change is in that fourth tag, and mind the semicolon.
 * You also link to those pages manually with links to [http://www.whatever.com/blog/index.php?author=3](http://www.whatever.com/blog/index.php?author=3)

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 * Last reply from: [sasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasha/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profiles/#post-82334)
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