Author archive pages

In WordPress, posts are created by an administrator or users with post creation capabilities. In most themes, you will see a linked author name alongside the post title. Once you click on the link, you will be redirected to a page with all the posts that have been created by the specified user. This is the Author Archive page, and it's usually handled by the archive.php file. Let's take a look at the author archive page of the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Basically, we have the display name of the author and the description. This might be good enough for basic WordPress sites with blogs and one or two authors. In situations where you have a large number of writers with the primary site feature being publishing articles, this ...

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