In a multi-author blog, it's always good for the reader to know the author of the article that they're currently reading. It's even better if they can grab some extra information about the author, such as his website, a short bio, and so on.
In this recipe, you'll learn how to edit your single.php
theme file to automatically retrieve the author-related information, and display it at the top of the page.
As we're going to display author information on posts, the first thing to do is to make sure that your contributing authors have entered their biography and other information into the WordPress database.
Any author can enter his information by logging in to the WordPress dashboard, and then going to Profile. The blog administrator can edit all of the profiles. The following screenshot shows the WordPress 2.7 profile editor for the authors.