Chances are, you have added personal touches and tweaked your current WordPress blog’s theme and only to realise that there’s no author page included in your theme design. Ouch~!
With few easy steps, you should be able to create the author page on your current WordPress theme.
Step 1: Preparing the author.php file.
- A quick way to build up your author.php file is to duplicate it from other themes, most notably, the Twenty Eleven default theme. You are halfway there already!
- Navigate to your author page to see whether it works or not. In most cases, your author page is default at www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/author/ADMIN. You can change your nickname from ADMIN to something else. See Step 2.
- Up to this point, you should be able to see all the details pumped out already except that the look and feel may be distorted, as the author.php file that you have is from other theme. Open up single.php of your own theme, replicate the html structure in there into your author.php. Replace everything in author.php except for the content between “<div id=”content” role=”main”>” and “</div><!– #content –>”.
Step 2: Picking your name (Optional)
Simply go to your WordPress database, and update the user_nicename field of your account. It should not affect any other functionality of the system.
Step 3 : To add visual editor/TinyMCE to your biography (Optional)
If you requires more than what the dull biography textarea has to offer, download this plugin – Visual Biography Editor and you will get the editor as good as what you get in the post editor.
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