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This tag returns a link to the Website for the author of a post. The Website field is set in the user's profile (Administration > Users > Your Profile). The text for the link is the author's Profile Display name publicly as field. This tag must be used within The Loop.
get_the_author_link() returns the link for use in PHP. To display the link instead, use the_author_link().
<?php get_the_author_link(); ?>
This tag does not accept any parameters.
The example echos (displays) the author's Website URL as a link and the text for the link is the author's Profile Display name publicly as field. In this example, the author's Display Name is James Smith.
<p>Written by: <?php echo get_the_author_link(); ?></p>
Which displays as:
get_the_author_link() is located in wp-includes/author-template.php
the_author(), get_the_author(), get_the_author_id(), the_author_link(), get_the_author_link(), the_author_meta(), get_the_author_meta(), the_author_posts(), get_the_author_posts(), the_author_posts_link(), get_author_posts_url(), get_the_modified_author(), the_modified_author(), wp_dropdown_users(), wp_list_authors()