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Hello, I’ve searched through the support forum but can’t find an answer to what I’m looking for.
Currently, my site uses normal author archive pages (mysite.com/author/author_name) which just has the author’s name at the top.
What I want is a custom author’s page for every author that includes their author’s bio, social links, some photos of them, info about them etc., then a list of all the posts they’ve written.
How can I create a custom author’s page for every author and make it so that if a user clicks on the author’s name from anywhere on the site, it goes to this custom author page rather than the typical WP author archive?
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Hi there,
I would recommend using the default author archive page, you can insert the author name, author bio and other author info using a block element – page hero, so it appears on top of all the author posts.
You can dynamically pull the author info via GenearetBlocks plugin’s headline block and button block.
Here’s a video on how to create an author box, it’s pretty much the same as create an author page hero, you just need to set the element type to
page heroinstead ofhook.
Let me know if you need further assistance on this 🙂
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Yes but with E-E-A-T it’s best to have more author info on an author’s page. I also want this page to be a single page with a bunch of info about the author, then all posts they’ve written (not pagination). I’d like this to be a static page that I add info to manually for each author and then when a user clicks the author’s name in the post or on our about page, it still goes to mysite.com/author/author_name/ but instead it shows this static page with lots of info about the author. Similar to this author page on this site: https://travellemming.com/author/ashleigh/
how do I achieve this?
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I’d like this to be a static page that I add info to manually for each author and then when a user clicks the author’s name in the post or on our about page, it still goes to mysite.com/author/author_name/
You can include as much info as you want in the author box, or you can use a block element – loop template, the content you added to the element will completely replace the default author archive page while keep the same URL.
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Ok I created a new loop template for author’s archives only and designed it. I added their photo and name dynamically using the dynamic block, But the only option I see for dynamic content for authors’ info is “Post Author Biography”. This is drawing from the Author’s Biography in the “Edit User” screen in WordPress, but it’s just a wall of text. It won’t let me style it with H2’s, photos, paragraphs, etc.
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Hi there,
What other info would you be adding?
Usually, a custom Author field would be added through plugins like ACF to create more defined information for the Authors.
Then, these, new custom fields would be the ones dynamically grabbed through various GB Headline Blocks.
This we would say is the easiest and most common approach.
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Yes I have ACF and I’ve successfully added a WYSIWYG editor to to the “Edit User” area. The issue is that I can’t find it when editing my Author Archive Block-Element-Loop-Template in the block editor. I named the extra info “Author_Info” but when I type /author_info no block shows up. Similarly under dynamic content with GP it doesn’t show up there. If I could either just edit the standard Author Biography section with a visual editor that allows me to add photos, H2s, etc, then that would be fine. But I can’t do that either, so I added the ACF that is a WYSIWYG editor, but it won’t allow me to add it tot he Block Element Loop-Template. I’m almost there! Just a strange roadblock here.
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You can use a GB Headline Block to retrieve that WYSIWYG field. You’ll need to enable the Dynamic options of the Headline Block, set the Content Source to Post meta, and the name to the name of your custom field. Reference: https://docs.generateblocks.com/article/dynamic-data-options-overview/#content-post-meta
Note: Your field name won’t appear in the name field of the dynamic options in a Block Element by default. The reason for this is that a Block Element is dynamic. It’s not initiated yet to a post/page/cpt or something else.
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