Title: the_author_posts_link() problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# the_author_posts_link() problems

 *  [Chandu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chandu/)
 * (@chandu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author_posts_link-problems/)
 * Hi All,
 * I have a strange problem in my site. The author link returned by wordpress in
   the wordpress theme using the_author_posts_link is something like ‘mydomain.com/
   author/’. Its not concatenating the author name to the URL. What could be the
   problem?
 * The function is returning correct URL if the default permanent link structure
   is used. i.e, ‘mydomain.com/?author=1708’.
 * Just for your information, as the wordpress won’t allow unicode usernames all
   my usernames are empty and the name i s available in display_name field of the
   user info. This could be the problem also.
 * Is there anyway to get the author link with ID instead of the name?
    i.e, ‘mydomain.
   com/author/1708/’ instead of ‘mydomain.com/author/myname/’?
 * This might also solve my problem.

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 *  [OthelloBloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/othellobloke/)
 * (@othellobloke)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author_posts_link-problems/#post-621661)
 * I’m having this problem after upgrading to 2.6. wp_list_authors isn’t working
   either.
 * I’m getting damned sick of wordpress with all the problems we’ve been having.

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 * Last reply from: [OthelloBloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/othellobloke/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author_posts_link-problems/#post-621661)
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