wp-includes/author-template.php:328Retrieves an HTML link to the author page of the current post's author.
stringOne hook fires while get_the_author_posts_link() runs, in this order:
Filters the link to the author page of the author of the current post.
function get_the_author_posts_link() { global $authordata; if ( ! is_object( $authordata ) ) { return ''; } $author = get_the_author(); /* translators: %s: Author's display name. */ $title = sprintf( __( 'Posts by %s' ), $author ); $link = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" rel="author">%2$s</a>', esc_url( get_author_posts_url( $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename ) ), $author ); /** * Filters the link to the author page of the author of the current post. * * @since 2.9.0 * @since 7.0.0 Added `$author` and `$title` parameters. * * @param string $link HTML link. * @param string $author Author's display name. * @param string $title Text originally used for a title attribute. */ return apply_filters( 'the_author_posts_link', $link, $author, $title );}Introduced in 4.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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