Displays either author’s link or author’s name.
Description
If the author has a home page set, echo an HTML link, otherwise just echo the author’s name.
Parameters
$use_title_attrbooloptional- Whether to add a title attribute.
Default:
true
Source
function the_author_link( $use_title_attr = true ) {
echo get_the_author_link( $use_title_attr );
}
Example
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.
Which displays as:
Written by: James Smith