Description

Gets the URL of the author page for the author with a given ID.

Usage

<?php get_author_posts_url( $author_id, $author_nicename ); ?>

$author_id

(integer) (required) ID of the author whose URL should be retrieved.

Default: None

$author_nicename

(string) (optional) User nicename.

Default: empty

Display the link of the author page for the author of the current post

<a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename' ) ); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a>

get_author_posts_url() can be located in wp-includes/author-template.php