Usernames in posts not linking to profile page?

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    religiespiritualiteitmystiek · Member ·

    I’m new to WordPress, have started a blog but there seems no way for people to click on usernames and be sent to the profile page.

    I can’t believe this is the case, because that’s a key-motivator for people to post in blogs.

    Or do I miss something?

    Thanks!

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    drmike · Member ·

    Actually it’s theme specific. Some themes (Mistylook rings a bell) will go to a built in Author Page while others will display the URL that the author has put into their Profile as the link.

    You can create your own Profile Page as a Regular Page (Dashboard -> Write -> Page) and have your users change the URL of their Profiles if you feel strongly about it. Gotta admit though I would have have it point to the URL of my choice though.

    If you;re talking about comments though, it;s what those folks put into the URL space that shows up.

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    religiespiritualiteitmystiek · Member ·

    Thanks, drmike, for your respons. I can see, indeed, that Mistylook works the way I want it to work, but the design is terrible. Is it a css-matter to make my theme (Garland 1.0) work as Mistylook (in the sense that usernames link to the profilepage)?

    Alain

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    drmike · Member ·

    You would have to add in PHP coding to the theme to add Author pages and we’re not allowed to do that here since it would be a security risk since this is a shared environment.

    Best bet would be to submit this suggestion via feedback

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