Well I was just playing with the stuff to see what happened.
The code above sets the path of each author as: (with permalink paths turned on for me)
site-url …index.php/archives/author/frank/
and the site owner as
site-url … index.php/archives/author/site-admin/
What loads is a page with the most recent post at top, just like the home index.php, with just that authors posts showing.
You could create a category AUTHORS and don’t ever assign posts to it, then make subcategories, of each author’s name, and also one called BIO, all under the category AUTHORS
AUTHORS
–frank
–joe
–lucy
–BIO
Then have each author make one post to BIO and only to BIO, and if they can, all other posts they make can be credited to their “AUTHORS/name” category, if they can remember to do that.
That’ll give you multiple ways to figure out displaying their stuff.
I’m not saying the above is all right, just that it’s a start to thinking outside the box as to how to use WP for multiple authors in a creative way. It might be better to arrange the categories a different way …
It surely not exactly the right way to do stuff entirely, that all I came up with in just a couple of minutes of playing with things.
You definitley might want to take a look at using meta_keys custom fields, like as sticky posts, use ideas from that whole end of using WP to see what can be done.
You can set up other index.php’s with custom page coded setup to draw in the data you want. So just play around with any idea you may have, and see what can be done!
Oh and don’t forget the LINKS MANAGER you can set up links to anything generated outside your WP installation, or within it.
