How to create author pages?

Hello everyone …

As I can see there is a template for an author page within the themepanel.
But it did not create a page for it while installing the theme.
Do I just have to create a page manually and it will work?
Or do i have to use a plugin for such functionalities?

best regards 🙂

Torsten

As in the theme demo, an author page is created for any author with posts; so once you have posts for that author, there will be an author page/index for that author with list of posts and the bio info from their user account setup. Simple! 🙂

You can, of course, create a custom author page template as with all wordpress themes, but the basic author page works out of the box, as it were.

Remember though, as with ALL WordPress sites, when naming author/user accounts, be sure to make the “nickname” the best SEO name, as the nickname is the URL, so

if you have
Joe
Smith
nickname ‘smittyjoe’
display as Joe Smith

the url for the author page would be /smityjoe/
and not /joe-smith/

Chris

Hi Chris,

thank you for the seo tip! 🙂

The thing is, that when i click on the author box under an article, that it redirects me to the startpage of our magazine. And not to the author page …

make sure you don’t have bad characters in username (e.g., tildes or whatever as that can cause problems although it’s supposed to be sanitized).

When you click on author NAME under byline does it go to author page? That is one thing, author bio box is a different thing entirely.

Author’s website link from user bio, would be the URL shown at bottom of bio box. But author photo and “name” at top of the bio box below post should also link to same place.

Be sure to check if you have a plugin causing conflict, or java error from F12 in chrome or IE.

All possible links to the author page are redirected to the homepage of the magazine.
Even when clicking the author name under the article title (next to the article date).

as far as i cam see there are no bad or strange characters in the names. and it happens with all authors.

for example here is an article written by me:

http://www.1-2-family.de/gesundheit-und-pflege/hausmittel-gegen-erkaeltungen-bei-kindern/

But .. i dont know how to find out which plugin would cause a conflict …

best regards and thank you so far! 🙂

torsten

The problem is solved!

The Wp-Seo-Pro plugin from Yoast has got an option, to completely deactivate the author archive! And THIS was the problem. I did misunderstood this option as it is not translated into german yet .. So it was activated. After deactivating this option, the author pages are running fine ! 🙂

So thank you all for your patience and your nice tips and help! 🙂 😉

Torsten

I’m experiencing a similar problem. The Author box appears on the post title as expected, but when I click on the Author name, it redirects to the home page.

I enabled the show Author Archive setting in Yoast, but it still redirects to the home page.

Here’s an example – https://www.einvestigator.com/how-to-obtain-a-police-report/

Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out to be a plugin issue. I use a WordPress optimization plugin called Clearfy. It had a setting to disable author page to avoid duplicate content issues.

I disabled the setting and the author page is accessible as expected.

Thanks for your help.