Ticket #30355: get_author_posts_link.diff

author-template.php

@@ -211 +211 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Display an HTML link to the author page of the author of the current post.
+ * Get an HTML link to the author page of the author of the current post.
  *
- * Does just echo get_author_posts_url() function, like the others do. The
- * reason for this, is that another function is used to help in printing the
- * link to the author's posts.
+ * Returns an HTML-formatted link using get_author_posts_url().
  *
- * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_posts_link
- * @since 1.2.0
+ * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_author_posts_link
+ * @since 4.1.0
  * @param string $deprecated Deprecated.
  */
-function the_author_posts_link($deprecated = '') {
+function get_author_posts_link($deprecated = '') {
         if ( !empty( $deprecated ) )
                 _deprecated_argument( __FUNCTION__, '2.1' );
 
         global $authordata;
-        if ( !is_object( $authordata ) )
+        if ( ! is_object( $authordata ) )
                 return false;
         $link = sprintf(
                 '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author">%3$s</a>',
@@ -242 +240 @@
          *
          * @param string $link HTML link.
          */
-        echo apply_filters( 'the_author_posts_link', $link );
+        return apply_filters( 'the_author_posts_link', $link );
 }
 
+
 /**
+ * Get an HTML link to the author page of the author of the current post.
+ *
+ * Echoes get_author_posts_link() function.
+ *
+ * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_posts_link
+ * @since 1.2.0
+ * @param string $deprecated Deprecated.
+ */
+function the_author_posts_link() {
+        echo get_author_posts_link();
+}
+
+/**
  * Retrieve the URL to the author page for the user with the ID provided.
  *
  * @since 2.1.0