You may consider using this function :
get_the_author_meta('url')
You can see here the implementation of the function get_the_author_link()
and you will see how they construct the link with name.
You may consider using this function :
get_the_author_meta('url')
You can see here the implementation of the function get_the_author_link()
and you will see how they construct the link with name.