Blog Authors - Linking Their Name To A Custom Profile Page

Hmm, that's where I was. I'll just start testing...I thought there was more direction on those options and examples. How would I link this author name:

By <perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" /> <perch:blog id="authorFamilyName"  />

To that same author's "bio page" that has the author.html template info?

author.html is the default template used by perch_blog_author()

perch_blog_author() needs an author slug as a parameter to get the author's information.

In your post.html template, you can use <perch:blog id="authorSlug" type="hidden" /> - build up an anchor link around that to your author page.

Cool, thanks for the notes. I'll test that today.

So I've got that happening in the template, but where do I locate the syntax of the author slug itself. For example, I have the author's name linked to a page, but where? Do you have an example of that URL syntax, I don't see it on the docs page.

<perch:if exists="byline">
        By <a href="/what/should/this/be/<perch:blog id="authorSlug" type="hidden" />"><perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" /> <perch:blog id="authorFamilyName"  /></a>
</perch:if>

Appreciate the help!

That's the bit that's up to you - you said you're creating a dedicated author's page, so the url will point to that page and you will pass the slug in as a url parameter. As per this:

https://docs.grabaperch.com/functions/utilities/perch-get/

I see - I need to get my head around this then. Thanks for the help.

So when I display a list of the authors, I get a link to, for example:

https://domain.com/blog/archive.php?author=bob-smith

That page is broken. So I imagine I need to make a page and build up the template for how the authors details are displayed. But I must be missing something, where is the /blog/archive.php coming from. Can I change that?

Hi Drew -

1. Broken - meaning a 404
2. I'll debug and hunt