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Old 05-08-2008, 01:09 AM
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Hi Guys.
Quick question, because I haven't had a reply to my thread posted on the WP forum posted 2 days ago, and I know there's some clever mactalker just itching to help!

I'm setting up a small portfolio site* and have got about a dozen users, each editing their own page and sub-page/s.

I now need to place a link in the page template so that a visitor can email the author of the page they're currently viewing.

However, using the tag :
Code:
<?php the_author(); ?>
or
Code:
<a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email(); ?>">
in the template (no, NOT the page itself) returns null, blank, nada! Not even an error or anything.

Any ideas why this might be? The page author attribute seems to be correct. I have mucked around with user permissions a lot, but this doesn't even work with my own pages (i'm an administrator level user).

bag of jellybeans for the winner..

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Old 05-08-2008, 01:19 AM
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You're missing the closing tag of the <a>.

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<a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email(); ?>">Email <?php the_author(); ?></a>
will output Email Author Name
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Old 05-08-2008, 09:57 AM
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You're missing the closing tag of the <a>.

Code:
<a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email(); ?>">Email <?php the_author(); ?></a>
will output Email Author Name
Thanks GraphicDZNR; well spotted, but (unfortunately) that wasn't the problem (I cut+paste the snippet above from the wordpress tags page; in my own template I had it correctly).

I did some more playing around and late last night found that it works fine when placed inside the normal page content area; that is, when placed inside the page's main 'entry' DIV.

At the moment I've just placed it under the page's name. I'm not too hot with CSS at all and not really confident enough to try much else (I want it to be light grey); suggestions would be appreciated though

Cheers

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Old 05-08-2008, 10:30 AM
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Old 05-08-2008, 11:18 AM
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Thanks mate. I'm off to tafe now, Truth be told I don't have an AIM/iChat account.. I might get one though, and take you up on that

Suggestions about the visual layout of the site are welcome from anyone too.. I'd like to make it a bit more usable and a bit more fluid to read. Still can't get those menu items left-justified!

Thanks again
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Old 05-08-2008, 08:16 PM
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Btw 2.6 is out... and has been for a while.
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Old 05-08-2008, 08:37 PM
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And Wordpress now offers 24/7 support.
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Old 05-08-2008, 08:50 PM
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I've got 2.6 on my own blog but didn't upgrade this site because - well - if it ain't broke.,.?

Is that 24 hour support paid? Because I posted over 24 hours ago but no replies..

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