slivehappy

great thanks .. can you please explain a little further? I looked at both .. but I am not sure how to do what you suggest .. thanks a million

this works
<?php query_posts(‘author=’ . $curauth->ID . ‘&showposts=10’); ?>

would like to run a query based on the author_name but I don’t want to hard code the author_name

query_posts(‘author_name=Harriet’);

how to I modify the query so it grabs the variable from the url?

https://mysite.com/wp/author/bob = query_posts(‘author_name=bob’);

https://mysite.com/wp/author/sam = query_posts(‘author_name=sam’);

and of course sanitizes it .. I am sure that is built into wordpress

Here is a good tutorial on this
https://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutorials/add-thumbnails-to-wordpress-with-custom-fields/