wp-includes/deprecated.php:805Returns or Prints link to the author's posts.
$displaybool$author_idint$author_nicenamestringoptional''string|nullfunction get_author_link($display, $author_id, $author_nicename = '') { _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.1.0', 'get_author_posts_url()' ); $link = get_author_posts_url($author_id, $author_nicename); if ( $display ) echo $link; return $link;}Introduced in 1.2.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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