wp-includes/deprecated.php:1608Retrieve the URL to the home page of the author of the current post.
stringfunction get_the_author_url() { _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.8.0', 'get_the_author_meta(\'url\')' ); return get_the_author_meta('url');}Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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