Comments on: How to make a WordPress profile page

By: Hamed

Hamed — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:53:13 +0000

Thanks for the information I know this post is a bit old but I was able to build a profile page from your instructions. Now I would like to also add the avatar to posts as well however I can't find a function that will work inside the post loop.

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:42:54 +0000

Very nice work!
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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:42:04 +0000

Hey Sue,

I just wanted to let you know how awesome your posts are and how handy they have been. I've implemented this coding easily and love it. Thanks so much for all the information you are writing and sharing!

-Chris

By: Reeni

Reeni — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:40 +0000

Hi Sue,
Just wondering if you have a plugin or know of one where each one of my registered users, when they register, will make an automatic post for them. I am using wordpress for a class and I need each student to have all there bio info on a post and I need it archived under their name. I used to do this manually for all my students when I had 30 in a class. Now I have 150 student and use a search engine for students to find comments with their name in it so other students can find them and make comments on their comments. Will this code you mentioned here help with that. A plugin would sure be nice.

Thanks for any help. Reeni

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:09:11 +0000

Lynne, you'll need to create the list from registered users rather than from people who have published posts. It's just a matter of changing the function you're using or the custom search code. Probably the function get_users_of_blog is what you want:
http://blogmum.com/2009/07/making-a-list-of-blog-authors-get_users_of_blog-and-get_userdata/

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:21:47 +0000

Thanks for your response! Yes I didn't explain it very well - I now realise that I don't mean to refer to the author.php file - it's the page before that which is a simple list of authors.

Currently a post has to be written by the author before the links in the list of authors become active and link through to the author page. I was wondering if there was any way I could make the author name in the list into a link prior to a post being written. It's my (probably kludgy) way of creating a member directory where not all members can be relied upon to write posts.

Hope this explanation is clearer (although I fear it isn't!)

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:40:46 +0000

Lynne, I'm not entirely clear what you mean by "author names with no posts linking..." - where do you want them to link from?
That said, author pages still exist for registered users with no posts: e.g. here's one I just made on TameBay:
http://tamebay.com/author/test
It happens automatically within WP when you create the new user.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:36:52 +0000

Great blog - and your instructions are so clear. I have my author page working as I want apart from one thing - I would like author names with no posts still to link to the profile page. Have googled for quite some time now but can't find a good clear solution. Is this possible?

All I can think of is writing a blog post for each member to trigger the link but there are quite a few so would rather avoid this.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:07:37 +0000

Kanishka, yes, of course you can but you'll have to make extensive edits to the code you have. If you want to hire me to do it for you, please get in touch.

By: kanishka

kanishka — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:04:15 +0000

hi!
can you help me out. the default page for writer, I already had with the theme shows much information on the sidebar itself. moreover, when i clicked at the author name, i had an archive page for the author,that showed excerpt and other post details too.
I liked the things very much, but cant i have the excerpts and other details too along with the other personal information after using your trick.
help me out please