WordPress Custom Author Page (author-x.php)
It was recently asked in a newsgroup how to make the WordPress author function like the wordpress category page. The format of the category page is category-x.php. Replace the x with the category ID you would like a custom page for (e.g. category-14.php) and when browsing category x the custom page category-x.php is processed instead of category.php.
In my research, I didn’t see a previously implemented way to do this with author.php, so I came up with these modifications to the author.php page:
global $wp_query; $curauth = $wp_query->get_queried_object(); if(file_exists('author-'.$curauth->ID.'.php')) { include('author-'.$curauth->ID.'.php'); } else { //Default author page }
The idea here is to have author.php check to see if author-x.php exists. If it does, include that file. If not, process the default author.php in the else condition.
Té said
am February 18 2010 @ 3:03 pm
Very excited to have found this. I searched a lot and this is the only solution I found. I heard that this will be a feature of WordPress 3.0 but of course we are needing a solution for 2.9.
I am trying to implement it now but I am wondering if you have an author.php file in which it is implemented that you can share as an example.
If so, please email me at te [at] all [dot] is
Thanks,
Té
admin said
am February 23 2010 @ 5:15 pm
Hi Té,
The code provided in the article should be literally all you need to get going. It checks to see if the author ID page exists for $curauth. If it does, it uses that page. If not, it uses the code provided in the else for the default author page.
Let us know how it worked out for you.
Tim
Diana said
am April 1 2010 @ 12:29 am
Is there someway to use this in single.php? I tried everything and can´t find it anywhere.
admin said
am April 6 2010 @ 12:01 pm
Hi Diana,
I just posted an answer to your question here:
http://serversideguy.com/2010/04/06/custom-single-page/
Tim