is_author( int|string|int[]|string[] $author = '' ): bool

Description

Parameters

$authorint|string|int[]|string[]optional

User ID, nickname, nicename, or array of such to check against. Default empty.Default: ''

Return

bool

Whether the query is for an existing author archive page.

Uses · 2

• _doing_it_wrong()Marks something as being incorrectly called.
• __()Retrieves the translation of $text.

Used by · 13

• WP::handle_404()Set the Headers for 404, if nothing is found for requested URL.
• feed_links_extra()Displays the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds.
• get_body_class()Retrieves an array of the class names for the body element.
• get_the_archive_description()Retrieves the description for an author, post type, or term archive.
• get_the_archive_title()Retrieves the archive title based on the queried object.
• redirect_canonical()Redirects incoming links to the proper URL based on the site url.
• rest_get_queried_resource_route()Gets the REST route for the currently queried object.
• twentyfifteen_author_bio_template()Prevents `author-bio.php` partial template from interfering with rendering an author archive of a user with the `bio` username.
• twentynineteen_get_the_archive_title()Filters the default archive titles.
• twentythirteen_author_bio_template()Prevents `author-bio.php` partial template from interfering with rendering an author archive of a user with the `bio` username.
• wp_dropdown_users()Creates dropdown HTML content of users.
• wp_get_document_title()Returns document title for the current page.

Source

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242function is_author( $author = '' ) {243	global $wp_query;244 245	if ( ! isset( $wp_query ) ) {246		_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false.' ), '3.1.0' );247		return false;248	}249 250	return $wp_query->is_author( $author );251}

History

Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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