Link displayed with author’s name

The Codex article Template_Tags/the_author_url has an example of creating a link to an author’s web-site.

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Templates
Category:Template_Tags
Category:Templates

Modify the theme. Replace <?php the_author() ?> with this:

<?php if (get_the_author()) { ?><a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a><?php } else { the_author(); } ?>

Thank you very much for your help. I got it working in 2mn ??

Er, sorry, my code should be this:

<?php if (get_the_author_url()) { ?><a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a><?php } else { the_author(); } ?>

I replaced the code but didn’t see any diference on my pages. Can you tell me what was wrong with the first one?

Actually, as long as you had an author name and a website (url) then you wouldn’t see a difference. But, the 2nd example is more correct as Viper007Bond is testing to see if there is a url before he actually puts it in a link otherwise it just defaults to displaying the author name without a link.

Thanks a lot Michael for your help.