Just compare display names: $currentuser = get_currentuserinfo(); if ( get_the_author() == $currentuser->displayname ) { // current user is the post author; do something } The get_the_author() function returns displayname, which should be able to be compared against the displayname parameter that is a part of the $currentuser object.
Try my (free & open source) “Easy Pagination Deamon”. It’s pretty advanced and should work on author templates too. Just stick with the readme presented on the link and works for paginated posts & pages too. You can also integrate it in your theme folder and call it in your functions.php with something like include_once( … Read more
you need to assign $curauth and since you are not on an author archive but on a regular page you can use get_userdata function and pass the user ID like so: $curauth = get_userdata(1); //and then use echo $curauth->user_url; or if you are in the loop you can use the_author_link(); which will Displays the author’s … Read more
Create an author.php page. It should take care of that. Check this page for more info http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates
if i am guessing it right you need to use <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> function to link to the author page Note: Remember the function will only be useful if you want to link to the author of a post not a particular user Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_posts_link
This a short compilation of the multiple comments above, so that future visitors don’t have to read each and every one of them. First of all, the_author_posts_link() is a deprecated function since version 2.1, so get_author_posts_url() or the_author_posts_url() should be used instead http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_author_posts_url The the/get_author_posts_url() takes an argument that requires “ID of the author whose … Read more
This code does the job with a filter. Doesn’t care what the comment says the author’s name is. Nothing particularly tricky about it. Should be self-explanatory. add_filter(‘get_comment_author’, ‘wpse31694_comment_author_display_name’); function wpse31694_comment_author_display_name($author) { global $comment; if (!empty($comment->user_id)){ $user=get_userdata($comment->user_id); $author=$user->display_name; } return $author; }
I had to do accomplish something similar with an old client where they wanted a custom comment type to allow them to post editorial comments in the admin while a post is going through the editorial phase, but should not be visible on the front end. Since there are no custom comment types available in … Read more
Try the WordPress Author Pop-up plugin. This plugin does the same thing as the the_author tag, displays the author name, only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the hidden layer(div) pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus gravatar photo (if author email is … Read more
You can use pre_user_description hook, which filters the user’s description prior to saving/updating the user, to remove any unwanted tags. To do that, you can use the wp_kses function, which strips out all but whitelisted tags. The allowed tags should be given as an associative array, where the keys are the names of the tags, … Read more